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Thursday 12pm - 5:30pm Friday 12pm - 5:30pm Saturday 11am - 5:30pm Sunday 11am - 3pm

Voce Books, 54-57 Allison Street, Birmingham (2026)

02/05/2026

🗣️ VOCE BOOKS OF THE MONTH, APRIL 2026

📚 SUSAKI PARADISE by Yoshiko Shibaki, trans. from Japanese 🇯🇵 by for

📚 HELM by Sarah Hall for

📚 SÁNCHEZ by trans. from Spanish 🇪🇸 by for

📚 EVENT HORIZON by .a.l.s.a.m.k.a.r.a.m trans. from Swedish 🇸🇪 by .vogel for

📚 BREAD ALONE: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE RUN OUT OF WORKING-CLASS WRITERS? by

📚 THE LOST GIRLS OF AUTISM: THE UNTOLD STORY OF WOMEN ON THE SPECTRUM by for

📚 TANGERINN by trans. from Italian 🇮🇹 by for

📚 ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME IV by Solvej B***e, trans. from Danish 🇩🇰 by Sophia Hersi-Smith & Jennifer Russell, for

📚 HUNGER INC: BUILDING SOLIDARITY BEYOND THE FOOD BANK by for

📚 TRANSCRIPTION by Ben Lerner, for (not pictured - currently out of stock)

01/05/2026

🗣 VOCE BOOK OF THE WEEK

📚 RIOTS. REBELLIONS. UPRISINGS: A REVOLTING COLLECTION OF STORIES FROM ACROSSS THE UK pub. by LEFT CULTURES

✒️ ‘…A collection of revolting from across the UK, all drawn from true events of how and why people have risen up against the system. Writers include Henry Bell, Angharad Tomos, Victoria Dawson and David Archibald with illustration from Jonny Hannah, Jayde Perkin, Russell Cobb, John Broadley and Cinta Fosch.’

📚 RIOTS. REBELLIONS. UPRISINGS is now in stock at Voce Books, priced £10

26/04/2026

🗣️ SPRING/SUMMER EVENTS 2026 AT VOCE BOOKS

📚 Hear from one of the most gifted & kinetic voices in contemporary fiction as we invite ASHLEY HICKSON-LOVENCE to hurtle us through the pages of his new book ABOUT TO FALL APART.

🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in Linktree.

23/04/2026

🗣 VOCE BOOK OF THE WEEK

📚 TANGERINN by EMANUELA ANECHOUM, trans. from Italian 🇮🇹 by LUCY RAND, pub. by EUROPA EDITIONS

✒️ ‘…Mina is thirty years old and leads a life in London built with great care but little spontaneity. One evening she receives a phone call from her mother. Her father is dead. After returning home for the funeral, Mina ends up staying.

Home is a small seaside town, where her Moroccan father ran a beach bar frequented mostly by migrants; a place of refuge for those who felt unwelcome in this new land. It’s here, in a place where people appear like ghosts who pass and vanish, that Mina connects with her family and rediscovers memories of her father, that mythical, elusive migrant with a mysterious past. Surrounded by the sea, Mina will find that roots are a fleeting dream—a desire to find a common history that will allow her to forget, at least at times, the wounds of abandonment...?’

📚 TANGERINN is now in stock at Voce Books, priced £14.99

19/04/2026

🗣️ LET THERE BE LIGHT! (AND BOOKS…!)

📚 If you have paid Voce a visit over the last three weeks, you will have noticed that things have been a little darker than usual, with scaffolding covering the shutters that open on to Allison Street while key works have been taking place to the building’s roof..

But as of this morning, we are back to full beam, with light streaming in through the windows & illuminating the shop once again. With such a small space, it is these details that bring life to the place beyond the books we put on the shelves, & it feels very special to feel the Spring sun once more during opening hours.

We’re here till 3pm as our Sunday standard, with some incredible new books having dropped in the last few days including our current Book of the Week, the continuation of Solve B***e’s time-loop masterpiece ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME.

If you’re in town, do drop by & check us out! You won’t miss us now we’re visible once again…!

📚🙏❤️ Maria & Clive

18/04/2026

🗣️ SPRING/SUMMER 2026 EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS

7PM
THURSDAY 22ND APRIL
BALSAM KARAM:
EVENT HORIZON

in conversation with Maria Lomunno Judd

📚 We are thrilled to welcome Swedish-Kurdish author BALSAM KARAM back to Voce Books for an evening of conversation around her newly translated Fitzcarraldo Editions book EVENT HORIZON following a young girl presented with an unprecedented, existential decision: public ex*****on for crimes committed against the state, or participation in an experimental mission taking her deep into space?

‘Language is at the heart of The Singularity, moving as it does from chaos and cacophony to the simple purity of a single voice, which is one measure of its brilliance and its beauty...’ JOHN SELF, THE OBSERVER on THE SINGULARITY

BALSAM KARAM is of Kurdish ancestry and has lived in Sweden since she was a young child. She is an author, librarian and university lecturer, and made her literary debut in 2018 with the critically acclaimed ‘Event Horizon’, which was shortlisted for the Katapult Prize. ‘The Singularity’ was shortlisted for the August Prize and is her first English-language publication.

This is one of our BORDERLESS events where we foreground world literature in translation, & welcome authors from across the world to discuss their work, often alongside their translators.

🎟️ £4 standard entry / £12.99 book & entry
Please book your ticket via our Eventbrite page, link in bio*

*Please note we will be unable to offer refunds on tickets when requested within 7 days of an event date.

🗺️ VOCE BOOKS is located at 54-57 Allison Street, Digbeth with step-free access via BRIG Café.

📧 For further enquiries about the event, or to discuss any other access requirements please email [email protected]

17/04/2026

🗣 VOCE BOOK OF THE WEEK

📚 ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME IV by SOLVE B***E, trans. from Danish 🇩🇰 by SOPHIA HERSI-SMITH & JENIFFER RUSSELL, pub. by FABER

✒️ ‘…It feels as though we have each been walking along our own path in the same forest. And now, we have found our way to a clearing and suddenly we see that we share not only the clearing but the forest too. You think it begins when you meet, but in fact, our stories were already entwined.

The fourth volume of the poetic, page-turning and International Booker shortlisted masterpiece about a woman’s fall through the cracks of time. Tara Selter has found a new home. In a sprawling villa on the outskirts of Bremen, Tara Selter is starting to settle into a new kind of eighteenth of November.

Her days with Henry, Ralf and Olga revolve around the daily routines of practical chores: gathering provisions, splitting firewood. But one morning, there are five new arrivals at their wrought-iron gate. As more people continue to arrive, their home fills with movement, voices fill the air; a flurry of people asking questions, sharing their eighteenths of November.

Slowly, they settle into a new routine and Tara begins to breathe a little easier. Could they create a new world inside the eighteenth of November...?’

📚 ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME IV is now in stock at Voce Books, priced £12.99

11/04/2026

🗣️ VOCE BOOKS OF THE MONTH, MARCH 2026

📚 SUSAKI PARADISE by Yoshiko Shibaki, trans. from Japanese by for

📚 WHAT AM I, A DEER? by for

📚 SÁNCHEZ by trans. from Spanish by for

📚 THEY by Helle Helle, trans. from Danish by Martin Aitken, for

📚 TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, trans. from Mandarin Chinese by Lin King for

📚 BREAD ALONE: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE RUN OUT OF WORKING-CLASS WRITERS? by

📚 PLASTIC by for

📚 BLACK BAG by for

📚 NOON by .rishi for

📚 THE CARRIER BAG THEORY OF FICTION by Ursula K. Le Guin, pub. by Cosmogenesis

29/03/2026

🗣️ SPRING/SUMMER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS

📚 Join us for our first ever book club collaboration as we read SÁNCHEZ by ESTHER GARCÍA LLOVET in English translation alongside LEYENDO EN BRUM reading in the original Spanish.

🎟️ Please book your place via Eventbrite, link in Linktree.

29/03/2026

🗣️ SPRING/SUMMER EVENTS 2026 AT VOCE BOOKS

📚 We are thrilled to welcome Swedish-Kurdish author BALSAM KARAM back to Voce Books to discuss her newly translated
book EVENT HORIZON.

🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in Linktree.

29/03/2026

🗣️ SPRING/SUMMER EVENTS 2026 AT VOCE BOOKS

📚 Hear from one of the most gifted & kinetic voices in contemporary fiction as we invite ASHLEY HICKSON-LOVENCE to hurtle us through the pages of his new book ABOUT TO FALL APART.

🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in Linktree

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