3 December 2014 — Housmans
CHRISTMAS UPDATE – DECEMBER 2014
1. Thank You
2. Holiday Closures
3. Seasonal Cards and Gifts
4. Housmans Top 25 Bestsellers of 2014: The Countdown!
5. Forthcoming Events
1. Thank You
On behalf of everyone at Housmans we’d like to say a big big thank you for your support this year, and every year. We really appreciate it. We’ve had a good year and hopefully we’ll be able to keep that momentum going into 2015.
2. Holiday Closures
The shop will be closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day – other than that it’s business as usual! Though we’ll probably close early on Christmas Eve.
3. Festive Gifts
We’ve a range of seasonal gifts, cards, calendars, mugs, and tote bags. Also, check out our ‘Pits and Perverts’ t-shirt, made by the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners group.
Housmans bags are £4 or free with any in-store purchase over £25. Mugs are £7.50.
A small selection of our cards – more in-store.
A couple of our calendars.
Available in Small, Medium and Large – £13 each. Call us if you’d like one sent to you – 070 7837 4473.
4. Housmans Top 25 Bestsellers of 2014: The Countdown!
The end of the year has become the season for lists, so here’s a countdown of the top 25 bestselling titles of 2014 – in reverse order for added excitement!
25. ‘The Invention of the Land of Israel’ by Shlomo Sand (Verso 2014) – £11.99
Shlomo Sand examines the mysterious sacred land that has become the site of the longest-running national struggle of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
24. ‘Comrades in Conscience’ by Cyril Pearce (Francis Boutle, 2014) – £15.00
A groundbreaking study of opposition to the Great War, exploring how Huddersfield earned its reputation as ‘a hotbed of pacifism’.
23. ‘Revolt on the Right’ by Robert Ford and Matthew Goodwin (Routledge, 2014) – £14.99
Drawing on a wealth of new data, Robert Ford and Matthew Goodwin put UKIP’s revolt under the microscope and show how many conventional wisdoms of the radical right are wrong.
22. ‘Little Red Schoolbook’ by Soren Hansen and Jesper Jensen (Pinter & Martin, 2014) – £5.00
When it first appeared in the 1970s, The Little Red Schoolbook was banned by the UK authorities. Reissued here in an uncensored format, it encourages teenagers to seek information for themselves, challenge authority and question the status quo.
21. ‘Delusions of Gender’ by Cordelia Fine (Icon Books, 2011) – £8.99
This startling, original and witty book deconstructs pseudo-scientific claims about gender, revealing the extent to which boys and girls, men and women are made – and not born.
20. ‘We Should All Be Feminists’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Fourth Estate, 2014) – £5.00
A remarkable exploration of what it means to be a woman today – and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.
19. ‘The Enemy Within’ by Seumas Milne (Verso, 2014) – £12.99
Seumas Milne reveals the astonishing lengths to which Thatcher’s government prepared to go to destroy the power of Britain’s miners union. Updated edition.
18. ‘King Mob: A Critical Hidden History’ by David Wise (Bread and Circuses, 2014) – £6.99
A first-hand account of King Mob, the late 60s London based political grouping formed after core members were excluded from the Situationist International.
17. ‘The View From the Train’ by Patrick Keiller (Verso, 2014) – £9.99
A collection of essays exploring surrealist perceptions of the city; the relationship of architecture to film; how cities change over time, as well as an urgent portrait of post-crash Britain.
16. ‘This Changes Everything’ by Naomi Klein (Allen Lane, 2014) – £20.00
In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein tackles the most profound threat humanity has ever faced: the war our economic model is waging against life on earth.
15. ‘King’s Cross: A Sense of Place’ by Angela Inglis (Matador, 2012) – £19.95 £10.00
A collaborative history told through narrative and photographs, celebrating the survival and rebirth of this unique corner of London.
14. ‘Against Austerity’ by Richard Seymour (Pluto Press, 2014) – £12.99
Richard Seymour shows how ‘austerity’ is just one part of a wider elite plan to re-engineer society and everyday life in the interests of profit, consumerism and speculative finance.
13. ‘Stalin Ate My Homework’ by Alexei Sayle (Sceptre, 2011) – £9.99
Alexei Sayle’s perceptive and hilarious memoir of memoir of growing up in a Jewish atheist communist family in Liverpool.
12. ‘Inequality and the 1%’ by Daniel Dorling (Verso, 2014) – £12.99
Leading geographer Danny Dorling goes in pursuit of the latest research into how the lives and ideas of the 1% impact on the remaining 99%.
11. ‘Undercover’ by Paul Lewis (Guardian Faber, 2014) – £8.99
The gripping stories of a group of police spies – written by the award-winning investigative journalists who exposed the Mark Kennedy scandal – and the uncovering of forty years of state espionage.
10. ‘Spectacle, Reality, Resistance: Confronting a Culture of Militarism’ by David Gee (ForcesWatch, 2014) – £7.00
David Gee takes a fresh look at a culture of militarism in Britain, exploring resistance to the government’s efforts to regain control of the story we tell ourselves about war.
9. ‘Economics: The User’s Guide’ by Ha-Joon Chang (Pelican, 2014) – £7.99
Ha-Joon Chang guides us through an investigation of our global economic system, asking how economics works, why it matters, and what it can teach us.
8. ‘Our Unknown Everywhere’ by Iain Sinclair (Three Imposters, 2013) – £10.00
An edited and expanded version of a talk Iain gave at Housmans in the summer of 2013, as part of a series of events organised to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Arthur Machen’s birth.
7. ‘Mark Thomas Presents the People’s Manifesto’ by Mark Thomas (Ebury Press, 2010) – £ 4.99
Mark Thomas toured the country, getting audiences to come up with policies, humorous and serious, aimed at taking back the power for the people.
6. ‘The Football Crónicas’ edited by Jethro Soutar and Tim Girven (Ragpicker Press, 2014) – £10.00
A not-for-profit book of football-themed essays from Latin America. Subjects include a prison team in Argentina, Quechuan women playing in bowler hats in the Peruvian Andes, and Chilean hooligans on an away trip to Buenos Aires.
5. ‘To End All Wars’ by Adam Hochschild (Pan, 2012) – £9.99
This brilliant history of WW1 brings the anti-war movement of the time to the foreground.
4. ‘On Anarchism’ by Noam Chomsky (Penguin, 2014) – £6.00
This book gathers essays and interviews to provide an introduction to Chomsky’s thought, refuting the notion of anarchism as a fixed idea.
3. ‘Establishment’ by Owen Jones (Allen Lane, 2014) – £16.99
Owen Jones, author of the international bestseller Chavs, offers a biting critique of the British Establishment and a passionate plea for a meaningful democracy.
2. ‘No Glory: The Real History of the First World War’ by Neil Faulkner (Stop the War Coalition, 2014) – £4.00
Pamphlet by historian Neil Faulkner which outlines the real reasoning behind the First World War. Nice to see a pamphlet selling so well!
1. ‘Housmans Peace Diary’
Our Peace Diary, now in its 62nd year of publication, takes the top spot! As well as the diary and peace directory, the 2015 edition celebrates the centenary of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILFP). The feature on WILPF looks at how women campaigned against the First World War, and also at women’s peace campaigning in the century since.
Order your copy here: http://www.housmans.com/diary.php
5. Forthcoming Events
Please check the website for forthcoming events: http://www.housmans.com/events.php
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