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.
Booklists at Housmans Housmans Specials
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Housmans Top 5
1. Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere - Paul Mason
2. Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class - Owen Jones
3. One Dimensional Woman - Nina Power
4. Debt - David Graeber
5. Savage Messiah - Laura Oldfield Ford
Latest Blog Post
‘Afghanistan Behind the Headlines’ with Guy Smallman and Ben Griffin
An event put on by our sister paper, Peace News. http://www.peacenewslog.info
7.30pm, Friends House, 173 – 177 Euston Road, NW1 (opp. Euston station).
Co-hosted by Peace News and Quaker Peace and Social Witness.
Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/9febfacebook
Photojournalist Guy Smallman has been to Afghanistan four times, working independently of the NATO media system. He is the only western journalist to [...]
January sale, with an additional 10% discount to all supporters
This January we’ll be having an extensive in-store sale: there’ll be lots of new books at greatly reduced prices, as well as some special £1 books that we’ve been keeping aside. We have also been in touch with publishers Phoenix, Freedom, Bone and Tangent and will have a wider range of their anarchist titles at greatly reduced prices.
On top of that, by way of saying thank you for all your continued support, we’d like to offer you an additional 10% off any purchases throughout January. To get the discount just say ask for a “supporters discount” when you get to the till.
The sale will start on January 3rd, and will run till the end of the month.
Peace Diary 2012
Every year we publish the world-renowned Housmans Peace Diary. This 59th
edition includes a World Peace Directory listing more than 1500 national and
international peace, environment and human rights organisations from around
the world. It also has special features looking at societal and political
control of the uses of technology, sparked by the 200th anniversary of the
Luddites.
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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.