The New Dark Age

CONTENTS

NEWS

1. Your second-hand books wanted!

2. New ‘Video and Audio’ section on the website

EVENTS

3. (music & poetry jam) Out of Step
Saturday 9th May – 6-9pm

4. (talk/book event) ‘The Wheel’s Still in Spin’ with David Douglass
Wednesday 13th May – 7pm

5. (talk) ‘Atheism and Feminism’ with Sue Mayer
Saturday 16th May – 5pm

6. (talk/book event) ‘Conscientious Objection’ with Ozgur Heval Cinar and Andreas Speck
Wednesday 20th May – 7pm

7. (eco-poetry reading) ‘Creatures of the Intertidal Zone’ with Susan Richardson
Saturday 23rd May – 5pm

8. (talk/pamphlet launch) Green Left – Eco-Socialism
Wednesday 27th May – 7pm

9. (live music) No Sweat @ Housmans
Saturday 30th May – 6pm to 9pm

10. Forthcoming in June 2009

BOOKS

11. God Resigns – Isis: The Dramatic Literature of Nawal El Saadawi

12. Camden Parasites by Daniel Lux

NEWS

1. Your second-hand books wanted!

Please donate your books to Housmans Bookshop
~keep books alive, rather than sitting on the shelf
~support one of Britain’s last radical bookshops

Cash paid for uncommon and unusual titles.
We shall endeavour to collect from anywhere in the country…
Please contact Nik on 07950 269 286 or at nik@housmans.com for more information. Thank you for your support.

2. New ‘Video and Audio’ section on the website

We are doing our best to record as many of our in-store events as possible, so if you aren’t able to make it down to the shop you might be able to watch it on the ‘Video and Audio’ section of our website http://www.housmans.com/events_videos.php

EVENTS
More comprehensive details about all events can be found at www.housmans.com/events.php

3. (music & poetry jam) Out of Step
Saturday 9th May – 6-9pm

A night of the best politically-charged music, poetry and comedy, from London collection Out of Step, featuring political punk-poetry from Captain of the Rant, country tinged acoustic loveliness from Kelly Kemp, angry acoustic punk-rock by Torn Out, awesome words and rhymes from Dave Pepper, plus punktry tunes by L Morgan.

“The epitome of DIY and underground music” – Neil Sutherland
For more information about Out of Step please visit http://www.myspace.com/outofstepmusicnight

4. (book event & talk) ‘The Wheel’s Still in Spin’ with David Douglass
Wednesday 13th May – 7pm

David Douglass, long-time coal miner, union activist and revolutionary, discusses the period from the end of the 60s to the coming to power of Thatcher, as covered in his latest book ‘The Wheel’s Still in Spin’.

5. (talk) ‘Atheism and Feminism’ with Sue Mayer
Saturday 16th May – 5pm

Sue Mayer will be debating the relationship between atheism and feminism, and remembering the freethinking women who challenged religious sway over civil laws and practices so that women may have the rights they possess today.

6. (talk/book event) ‘Conscientious Objection’ with Ozgur Heval Cinar and Andreas Speck
Wednesday 20th May – 7pm

To mark International Conscientious Objectors’ Day, Housmans are delighted to welcome our guests to critically analyse this ever-important subject.

“The world’s hundreds of thousands of conscientious objectors to military labour come alive in this volume, and not simply as figures of moral conscience. They are also revealed as symptoms and powerful critiques of militarism and the diverse problems it both feeds and draws on, including nationalism, patriarchy and class inequality, and racialism.” – Professor Catherine Lutz,

7. (eco-poetry reading) ‘Creatures of the Intertidal Zone’ with Susan Richardson
Saturday 23rd May – 5pm

Susan Richardson will be reading from her latest poetry collection, inspired by her journey through Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland, whose central theme is the impact of climate change and other environmental issues on the landscape of the arctic and sub-arctic.

8. (talk & pamphlet launch) Green Left – Eco-Socialism
Wednesday 27th May – 7pm

Green Left is an eco-socialist, anti-capitalist current within the Green Party, which started in June 2006 when 36 Green Party members agreed its launch statement (the Headcorn Declaration).

This evening guests from Green Left will be discussing their agenda, and launching a new pamphlet on the issues at hand.

9. (live music) No Sweat @ Housmans
Saturday 30th May –  6pm to 9pm

An evening of anti-sweatshop politics and protest music from No Sweat, featuring the finest political hip-hop from Clayton Blizzard, outspoken folk-punk from Jonny One Lung and Apologies I Have None, plus the unique Reggae-inspired sounds of Babar Luck.

10. Forthcoming in June 2009

Paul Mason book launch: ‘Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed’
Wednesday 3rd June – 7pm

Grey Hen reading – poetry, short fiction and autobiographical work by older women.
Saturday 6th June – 5pm

Shamanic Maps of How the Universe Works with Leo Rutherford
Wednesday 10th June – 7pm

Welsh Devolution and Socialist Politics
Wednesday 17th June – 7pm

‘The End of Certainty: Towards a New Internationalism’ with Stephen Chan
Saturday 20th June – 5pm

Press Freedom – Jason N. Parkinson + Marc Vallee
Saturday 27th June – 5pm

BOOKS

The following books are available to buy from our website at http://www.housmans.com/books.php

11. God Resigns – Isis: The Dramatic Literature of Nawal El Saadawi
Nawal El Saadawi (Saqi Books, 2009)
£9.99

Nawal El Saadawi’s most recent play, ‘God Resigns at the Summit Meeting’, created an uproar in her native Egypt. On the basis of the title alone, officials declared the work heretical and charged El Saadaawi with insulting the ‘Almighty God’, not just Islam. Her prosecutors requested that all her books be destroyed, that she be arrested on return to Egypt and her Egyptian nationality be revoked.

The second play in this collection is ‘Isis’, a critique of the discriminatory rules that control women, the daughters of Isis.

Both ‘God Resigns’ and ‘Isis’ incorporate key themes to El Saadawi’s work: that all religions are inimical to women and the poor, that the oppression of women is reprehensible and not uniquely characteristic of the Middle East or the ‘Third World’, and that free speech is fundamental to any society.

12. Camden Parasites
Daniel Lux (Phoenix Press, 2007)
£7.95

Emerging from a world of poverty, Danny soon discovers that his quick wits and forthright personality can gain him access to the well-heeled salons of Hampstead. As he explores the realities of the middle class way of life, one question comes to mind: Who are the Camden parasites?

“A savage indictment of bourgeois society…the almost fictional description of Jay and Cosmo Landesman had me in stitches…”  Stewart Home

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