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‘One Year Anniversary of Elephant’ with Siana Bangura and Special Guests
Thursday 18th May, 7pm
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‘From Inside’ with Anthony Howell
Wednesday 31st May, 7pm
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'Threads: From the Refugee Crisis’ with Kate Evans
Wednesday 7th June, 7pm
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VETERANS FOR PEACE PRESENT: ‘Engagement, Disengagement and Resistance in WW1’  with Julian 'Guff' Putkowski
Monday 12th June, 7pm
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‘After the Election – What now?’  a participatory discussion with Duncan Thomas of RS21, Kate Hudson of Left Unity and guest from Alliance for Green Socialism
Wednesday 14th June, 7pm
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‘Bob Crow: Socialist, leader, fighter; a political biography’ with Gregor Gall
Wednesday 28th June, 7pm
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LOCOMOTRIX POETRY EVENT: ‘Licentia’ live performance by A. A. Walker & music by Ozlem Simsek, with special guest Susana Medina
Thursday 29th June, 7pm
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Opening Hours

Monday to Saturday 10am to 6.30pm
Sunday 12 noon to 6pm

Housmans is closed on public holidays.

We're only two minutes' walk from all the Kings Cross and St Pancras rail and underground stations (see Contact/Find Us page for map and directions)



 

Housmans is London's premier radical bookshop

We are a not-for-profit bookshop, specialising in books, zines, and periodicals of radical interest and progressive politics. We stock the largest range of radical newsletters, newspapers and magazines of any shop in Britain.


Ordering books from Housmans online


Use the button on the right to go straight to our online bookshop - the ethical alternative to Amazon, with over 500,000 titles - or click on one of the buttons below, which relate directly to the stock we hold in the shop.


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Helps you browse some of our key areas of interest, showing a selection of the books we have in-store or which are available online.
Features a selection of hard-to-find titles that you can order online directly from us, but are not available from the online shop.

Housmans Gift Vouchers


Housmans gift vouchers now available.
Denominations of £50, £20, £10 and £5.
Available in-store or by mail order.
For mail order please use the Paypal button below.

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Housmans Top 10


10. Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future - Paul Mason
9. Syriza: Inside the Labyrinth - Kevin Ovenden
8. The Establishment: And how they get away with it - Owen Jones
7. A Very British Coup - Chris Mullin 
6.Here We Stand : Women Changing the World - (eds) Helena Earnshaw and Angharad Penrhyn Jones 
5. Rebel Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London's Radical History - David Rosenberg
4. The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy - Yanis Varoufakis 
3. Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work - Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams 
< 2. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate - Naomi Klein
Shared first place!
1. We Should All Be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 
Communist Manifesto - Marx & Engels
Housmans Peace Diary


Latest Blog Post


International Conscientious Objectors’ Day, 15 May 201

A round up of of International Conscientious Objectors’ Day events around the UK….. Mark Rylance to perform at International Conscientious Objectors’ Day, 15 May 2017  REMEMBERING THE MEN WHO SAID “NO”! Sir Mark Rylance, acclaimed in many roles from Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall to Roald Dahl’s BFG, will be speaking at the annual Conscientious Objectors’ […]

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£1 Book Basement


Deep down in the Housmans basement we have a vast, diverse, and ever-changing selection of second-hand books at the truly bargain price of £1.

There are lots of great titles, primarily politics and fiction, but also a lot more besides. There's always new stock coming in, so do drop in regularly to get the best of the bunch.


Please donate your old books


Please support one of Britain’s last radical bookshops by donating your books to Housmans. Not only will you be keeping your books alive and in circulation, but also helping to support the shop.
Cash will be paid for uncommon and unusual titles, and we shall endeavour to collect from anywhere in the country.

Please contact Nik on 020 7837 4473 or at nik@housmans.com for more information.Thank you for your support.