Housmans Specials
Housmans Bookshop is the main broad-based radical bookshop in London, and is one of the most significant radical bookshops in the country. We stock a wide range of books, including mainstream titles as well as radical ones covering fields such as peace and anti-militarism, the environment, human rights and civil liberties, gender and sexuality, anarchism, and - region-by-region - analysis of many of the world's trouble spots.
On this page you will find a selection of our stock from smaller independent publishers, which are not available in our main online shop, but which can be bought online with PayPal. However, we can also take orders over the phone - see the bottom of the page for more info.
For more information about Housmans Mail Order Service click here.
If you would like to submit a Review or comments about any of the books you find on our Booklist pages please click here
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50 Years of Carnival 1959 - 2009 Vague #54 Tom Vague (Kensington & Chelsea Community History Group, 2009) |
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Uprooting War (Freedom Press, 1984) £6.00 |
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Bash the Rich £9.99 |
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Rosa Luxembourg Selected Political and Literary Writings Volume 10 Number 1 (Merlin Press, 2009) £14.95 |
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The Conquest of Violence Essay on War and Revolution Bart De Ligt (Pluto Press, 2009) £9.50 |
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Government is Violence Leo Tolstoy (Phoenix Press, 1990) £7.95 |
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Publish You Peter Lally, Gareth Brookes and Saban Kāzim (Alternative Press, 2009) £8.00 |
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William Blake: Visionary Anarchist A Life in Black and White (Freedom Press, 2008) £6.00 |
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Anarchist Writings of William Godwin
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Shaman's of Peru |
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War & Peace in Ireland |
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Wheels Still in Spin (Christie Books, 2009) £12.95 |
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Camden Parasites £7.95 |
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One Voice Pacifist Writings from the Second World War Vera Brittain foreword by Shirley Williams (Continuum Books, 2005)
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War is a Crime Against Humanity |
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Black Britain £19.99 |
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The Black House Housmans Special Price: £25 |
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Legacy £6.99 |
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Anarchy in Action Colin Ward £7.50 |
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Waging Nonviolent Struggle
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The Unsung Sixties £11.99 |
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Down and Out in Shoreditch and Hoxton Stewart Home £7.99 |
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Muck, Silk and Socialism recollections of a Left-wing Queen's Counsel John Platt Mills QC (Paper Publishing, 2002) recommended price: £28.00 Housmans price: £10.00 |
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Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns |
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People Power and Protest since 1945: Compiled by April Carter, Howard Clark |
Priced at just £8.50 in the shop (see ordering buttons below for prices including shipping costs), this 200-page bibliography is destined to be a key resource for both activists and academics for years to come.
Compiled by April Carter, Howard Clark and Michael Randle, this is an annotated bibliography of nearly 1000 itemised references, providing a guide both to recent campaigns and to the theory and practice of nonviolent action. It covers diverse movements, some not exclusivly nonviolent, and raises highly controversial issues. Introductions to each section provide relevent historical background, and also note some criticisms.
This is a powerful reference source for activists, and will be of use to students and academics dealing with the history, politics or sociology of popular movements around the world.
Secondhand Books
We have frequent book sales, with the stock largely made up of a fluctuating - and also highly eclectic - range of secondhand books. These books cover many of the areas you find in the shop's main stock, but will also often surprise you (they do us sometimes!). Our secondhand sale stock will typically include many hundreds of books at just £1, and sometimes many more at £2 and £3. Obviously, it's difficult for us to answer questions as to exactly which titles we have in stock at any moment (though you can always ask) - but that's yet another excuse for you to visit us for a liesurely and rewarding browse. Housmans is happy to accept donations of secondhand books to help us to raise money to support our work. This is also a helpful way for many (long out of print) classic radical titles to be recycled to other, newer activists who might value them.
Mail Order Service
Whenever you want to get books from Housmans, if you can't come to us we'll gladly send the books to you - whether they're from our specialist stock or are more general titles. In fact, we earnestly encourage you to choose Housmans as your book supplier whether or not your requirements are more generally available, for without the under-pinning of the more mainstream trade it is very much harder for the independent, alternative shops like Housmans to survive - and then we won't be here when you really do need us for material which will never be stocked by the high street bookshop chains.
If the books you order are ones we have in stock, we will normally despatch them within 48 hours. For all "inland" destinations (ie all four parts of the UK, and also the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, and BFPO addresses), post and packing is charged at the following rates:
Total Cost of Goods: Postage:
£0.01 - £24.99 £1.99
£25.00 - £49.99 £2.99
£50.00 - £74.99 £3.99
£75.00 - £149.99 £4.99
£150.00 and up £5.99
If you want us to send books "overseas"; please consider a minimum £2.99 postage and packing
You can order books on the website, by post (5 Caledonian Road, Kings Cross, London N1), by phone (020-7837 4473), by e-mail (orders@housmans.com) - as well as in person in the shop.
We will accept cheques (in £ Sterling only), which should be made payable to "Housmans", as well as all the major credit/debit/charge cards. Cash (in UK£, US$, or Euro only) can be accepted, but is sent at your own risk.
Many books have payment buttons shown on the relevant booklist page on our website - in these cases you can use your credit card to order automatically online. For other books, or if you want to pay by any other method, please see payment options above.
Not in Stock?
Any book in print that we don't already have in stock can be obtained, for you to collect from the shop or to be sent to you. Normally, books will be available within a week or less. However, specialist books - in particular those from small publishers, or those published abroad - can take longer.
There is no charge for ordering books for you, but we may have to ask for a deposit if the book is very expensive, or not returnable to the publisher. Please note that we cannot generally supply out-of-print books, except for titles that we actually have in stock.
Housmans Booklists
We regularly produce booklists on various topics, which may be available in print and/or on our website. Naturally, these lists can only refect a proportion of the thousands of titles we have in stock; and our stock is always changing, with new titles available day by day! (Hence a visit to Housmans to browse - and maybe find something you didn't even know you wanted - is always the best option if you're within reach).
The booklists currently on this website are a mixture of recent titles, best-sellers, and - in the case of some of our specialist areas - recommended reading. See the notes with each list for further details. And remember that if you want to buy any of the books on these lists (or books not on these lists!), and you really can't get into Housmans in person, then you can use our cheap and efficient mail order service - see above for more details.