7 December 2016 — Housmans
SEASONAL GIFTS AND BOOK ROUND-UP OF 2016
A round-up of some books and diaries that you might be interested in at this time of the year! Includes our Top 10 Bestsellers of 2016….
DIARIES
Housmans Peace Diary – £8.95
Now in its 64th edition Housmans’ very own Peace Diary includes a World Peace Directory listing 1500 national and international peace, environment and human rights organisations from around the world. This year’s special feature looks at the ways that police, security services and corporations “go beyond the call of duty” (one might say), in terms of using infiltration, surveillance, and dirty tricks, to undermine progressive campaigns of many sorts. Available in-store or to order online here:
http://www.housmans.com/diary.php
Bottled Wasp Pocket Diary – £3
The 2017 edition features the hidden history of the struggles of women for their individual and our collective freedoms. All profits from the diaries go to organisations and charities working with prisoners, in particular the Anarchist Black Cross network.
Slingshot Organizer 2017 – £5
Published by AK Press. The must-have for punks, radicals, and free thinkers! A 176 page pocket planner with radical dates for every day of the year, space to write your phone numbers, a contact list of radical groups around the globe, menstrual calendar, info on police repression, extra note pages, plus much more.
TOP 10 BESTSELLERS OF 2016
The Hammer Blow by Andrea Needham (Peace News) £10
Andrea Needham’s gripping inside account of one of the most imaginative and successful direct actions in modern-day Britain: how ten women disarmed a Hawk jet bound for genocide in East Timor – and were acquitted.
Postcapitalism : A Guide to Our Future by Paul Mason (Allen Lane) £9.99
Paul Mason’s eclectic take on socialism for the 21st goes right back to Marx, Luxemburg and Lenin and argues information technology is a revolution that is not only reshaping our familiar notions of work, production and value but that it is also capable of bringing about socialism.
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek (Verso) £9.99
Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after capitalism. Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams demand a postcapitalist economy capable of advancing standards, liberating humanity from work and developing technologies that expand our freedoms.
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur (Zed Books) £8.99
In her own words, the incredible story of one of the greatest living revolutionaries. The first ever woman to make the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list, Assata Shakur’s trial and conviction for the murder of a white State Trooper in the Spring of 1973 divided America.
The Vegetarian by Han Kang (Portobello Books) £8.99
Dark dreams, simmering tensions, chilling violence…The Vegetarian is a novel about modern day South Korea, but also a novel about shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others, from one imprisoned body to another.
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus (Serpent’s Tail) £8.99
Blurring the lines of fiction, essay and memoir, Chris Kraus’s novel was a literary sensation when it was first published in 1997. Widely considered to be the most important feminist novel of the past two decades.
The Argonauts – Maggie Nelson (Melville House UK) £9.99
Exploring the challenges and complexities of mothering and queer family making, The Argonauts is the love story between Maggie Nelson and the artist Harry Dodge, who is gender fluid. A genre-bending memoir that offers fresh and fierce reflections on motherhood, desire, identity and feminism.
And The Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability by Yanis Varoufakis (Bodley Head) £16.99
In this dramatic narrative of Europe’s economic rise and spectacular fall, Yanis Varoufakis shows that the origins of the collapse go far deeper than our leaders are prepared to admit – and that we have done nothing so far to fix them.
Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics by Richard Seymour (Verso Books) £12.99
The story of how Corbyn’s rise was made possible by the long decline of Labour and a deep crisis in British democracy, Seymour’s book surveys the makeshift coalition of trade unionists, young and precarious workers, and students who rallied to Corbyn what it would mean for him to succeed.
Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists, Second by Dave Smith and Phil Chamberlain (New Internationalist) £9.99
Blacklisted tells the controversial story of the illegal strategies that transnational construction companies resorted to in their attempt to keep union activists away from their places of work with terrible effects on families and communities.
STOCKING FILLERS
The Little Book of Feminism – Harriet Dyer £5.99
A Book of Surrealist Games – Alistair Brotchie £14.50
Fuck Neoliberalism…and then some! –Simon Springer and Levi Gahman £0.50
The Little Red Schoolbook – Jesper Jensen and Soren Hansen £5
We Should All Be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie £5
Rebels Guide to Malcolm X – Antony Hamilton £3
GRAPHIC NOVELS AND ART BOOKS
Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg – Kate Evans £11.99
Are you my mother? – Alison Bechdel £16.99
The Trouble with Women – Jacky Fleming £9.99
Sally Heathcote Suffragette – Mary and Bryan Talbot and Kate Charlesworth £16.99
Modern Toss Christmas Mood Collection – Jon Link and Mick Bunnage £9.99
See Red Women’s Workshop 1974 – 1990 Feminist Posters – See Red Members and Sheila Rowbotham £19.99
MORE BOOKS!
A slightly random selection of books to whet your appetite!
Rebel Footprints : A Guide to Uncovering London’s Radical History –David Rosenberg £9.99
Marx In London – Asa Briggs and John Callow £10
Citizen: An American Lyric – Claudia Rankine £9.99
Let them eat chaos- Kate Tempest £9.99
I am nobody’s nigger – Dean Atta £7.99
100 Acts of Minor Dissent – Mark Thomas £9.99
Obfuscation : A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest – Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum £7.99
The Refusal of Work : Rethinking Post-Work Theory and Practice – David Frayne £16.99
23 Things They Dont Tell You about Capitalism – Ha-Joon Chang £9.99
City : London and the Global Power of Finance -Tony Norfield £20
The Beautiful Struggle : A Memoir- Ta-Nehisi Coates £9.99
Capitalism: What Is It And How Can We Destroy It?- Corporate Watch £5
No Such Thing as a Free Gift : The Gates Foundation and the Price of – Linsey McGoey £16.99
Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War – Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami £14.99
Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and women’s Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan-Michael Knapp, Anja Flach and Ercan Ayboga £16.99
Who cooked Adam Smith’s dinner? A story about women and economics – Katrine Marcal £8.99
Sex Object: a memoir –Jessica Valenti £16.99
I am your sister: collected and unpublished writing of Audre Lorde –Audre Lorde £15
The Sellout: a Novel – Paul Beatty £12.99
Sex and Death: Stories- various authors £18.99
Swing Time – Zadie Smith £18.99
Pearl Power and the Girl with Two Dads – Mel Elliot £7.99
Little People, Big Dreams: Frida Kahlo – Isabel Sanchez Vergara £9.99
I am a Girl – Yasmeen Ismail £6.99
A Rule is to Break: A Child’s Guide to Anarchy – John and Jana £11.99
The Art of Being Normal – Lisa Williamson £7.99
Here I Stand: Stories that Speak for Freedom –Various Authors £10.99
CARDS
As always we’ve got lots of Xmas cards, including from Campaign Against the Arms Trade and from the Refugee Council …
….and many many more!
Do remember Housmans also has its own line of Gift Vouchers (available instore, or which you can order online from the front page of our website here: www.housmans.com)
Shop closures in December/ January
We’ll be closed on the following days – please note there are ‘double’ bank holidays this year as Christmas Day and New Years Day fall on Sundays:
Saturday 24th December – close at 2.30pm
Sunday 25th December – closed
Monday 26th December – closed
Tuesday 27th December – closed
Sunday 1st January – closed
Monday 2nd January – closed
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