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30/07/2026

New in! ❤️‍🔥

TALK A BLUE STREAK (£15) by Lila Matsumoto examines how the act of writing declares a selfhood, but one always performative, looped, and curlicued.

THE LIGHT THROUGH SHARDS (£18) is a conversation with broken edges between two Palestinian writers and researchers - Alia Al-Sabi and Amany Khalifa - jagged in its attempt to grapple with insurmountable grief and loss.

Both available in the bookshop 💫

13/07/2026

NEW IN NON-FICTION 🩶

👄IT’S TERRIBLE THE THINGS I HAVE TO DO TO BE ME (£20) — A collection of Philippa Snow’s razor-sharp essays on celebrity, femininity and performance. Moving between pop culture and cultural criticism, Snow writes with precision on the strange ways images shape our lives.

🎞️ THE MACHINE THAT KILLS BAD PEOPLE: NOTES ON A FILM CLUB (£20) — Published by Visible Press, this collection reflects on cinema as a shared experience, bringing together essays and musings that explores film, criticism and the pleasures of watching together.

☄️ ENEMY OF THE SUN: POETRY OF PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE (£14.99) — Edited by Naseer Aruri and Edmund Ghareeb. First published in 1970, this newly republished anthology brings together the work of twelve Palestinian poets writing of exile, occupation, resistance.

✨ TRANSCENDENCE FOR BEGINNERS (£12.99) — Clare Carlisle’s thoughtful exploration of transcendence asks what it means to seek meaning beyond the everyday, weaving together philosophy, literature and lived experience in an illuminating read.

🎹 THE JOY OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC (£19.99) — Matas Petrikas celebrates the creativity and history of electronic sound, tracing the people, technologies and ideas that have shaped electronic music culture across generations.

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Available now from the South London Gallery Bookshop.

25/06/2026

Looking for your next read?

Artist Ranti Bam shares a selection of book recommendations inspired by her exhibition Sacred Groves at the SLG.

From feminist classics to reflections on sound, society and the nature of time, each book opens up new ways of thinking about the world and our place within it.

1. Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Women Who Run with the Wolves
With a combination of time-honoured stories, myths, fairy tales and casework, this will set you on a beautiful path to unleashing your inner wild.

2. Silvia Federici’s Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons
Federici is one of the most important contemporary theorists of capitalism and feminist movements, spanning over twenty years, she provides a detailed history and critique of the politics of the commons from a feminist perspective.

3. Anne Carson’s The Gender of Sound
The Gender of Sound looks at how women’s voices have historically been treated as unruly or dangerous, something to be contained or silenced.

4. Oyeronke Oyewumi’s The Invention of Women
Oyeronke Oyewumi examines the Western idea that biology provides the rationale for organising the social world.

5. Carlo Rovelli’s The Order of Time
Enlightening and consoling, The Order of Time shows that to understand ourselves we need to reflect on time – and to understand time we need to reflect on ourselves

6. Binyavanga Wainaina’s How to Write About Africa
This collection brings together, for the first time, Binyavanga’s pioneering writing on the African continent including many of his most critically acclaimed pieces. Writing fearlessly across a range of topics – from politics to international aid, cultural heritage and redefining sexuality

7. Jennifer Lucy Allen’s Clay: A Human History
In Clay: A Human History, Jennifer Lucy Allan navigates the story of humankind and our relationship to making and creativity through our relationship with this enigmatic, ancient material.

Buy in-store and or online today
Browse the full list (link in bio)

Ranti Bam: Sacred Groves is at the South London Gallery until 23 August 2026.

24/06/2026

IT’S HOT 🥵 read about it!

MEDIUM HOT: IMAGES IN THE AGE IF HEAT by Hito Steyerl examines the expansion of new technologies in the realm of creative practice, and what this means for the climate crisis.

SOIL, NOT OIL by Vandana Shiva argues that the diversity of life - from the microbes in the soil to the variety of crops in a field - is the primary engine of planetary health and resilience.

THE DESTRUCTION OF PALESTINE IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE EARTH BY Andreas Malm looks at the immense toll of war and genocide on the environment, and the use of ecocide as a political weapon.

FEN, BOG & SWAMP by Annie Proulx documents their systemic destruction of peatland - one of the UKs best wards against climate change - in pursuit of profit, and the ecological disaster that follows.

THE LOST RAINFORESTS OF BRITAIN by Guys Shrubsole unveils the miraculous nature of Britain’s rare, temperate ecology, and how the current politics of land management hold back our unique biodiversity from flourishing.

Come find us melting in the bookshop! 💦💦

10/06/2026

Two new titles from archive in the shop 💫

WOMEN/ النساء gathers together photographic works from West Asia and North Africa to present a broader collective portrait of “womanhood” in the MENA region. Photographers and the commissioned texts showcase the plurality of this identity, and how it shifts across time and place. Hardcover, £54.

FOOTBALL/ كرة القدم explores the love of the game across the region, showcasing an underrepresented culture that is more than just a game, but an integral part of daily life in the Arab world and the wider region. The book includes archival photos from 1980s up to the work of contemporary photographers. Hardcover, £48.

Both available in the shop, with limited stock 🤍

05/06/2026

New drop 🤍

S*X, CLUBS, DISSENT: VISUALISING Q***R NIGHTLIFE (£50) traces a visual history of q***r nightlife, considering photography’s role in documenting spaces of pleasure, protest and collective resistance.

In LOVE IN A TIME OF ALLEGORY (£13), Nicholas Muellner weaves photography, fiction and personal narrative into a meditation on intimacy, displacement and the stories we tell to make sense of uncertain times.

IRRATIONAL: A VISUAL DIRECTORY TO A WORLD WITH NO REASON (£13) brings together Francesco Jodice’s investigations into the myths, fantasies and contradictions that underpin contemporary society, revealing the often illogical forces shaping our political and cultural realities.

Olivier Richon’s THE DEVOURING EYE: PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE MOUTH (£13) takes an unexpected route through photographic history, examining appetite, consumption and desire through one of the body’s most expressive and unsettling motifs.

And in RETURNING TO BENJAMIN: ART IN THE AGE OF AI (£15), Victor Burgin revisits Walter Benjamin’s seminal ideas on art and mechanical reproduction to ask what they might mean in an era increasingly defined by algorithmic image-making and artificial intelligence.

Available now in the bookshop 📸

16/04/2026

✨ NEW ✨ Fresh titles just in. Take a look:

On the Bus Without a Phone by Babak Ganjei: Taking place over the course of a bus journey en route to a first date, BABAK GANJEI’S debut novel charts the seemingly infinite disappointments, misunderstandings and humiliations that have piled up over the course of narrator Bob Green’s life to date.

The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit: Solnit maps the extraordinary revolution of ideas and rights that we’ve experienced over the last fifty years, which has profoundly changed our world. This is a culmination of years of activism and offers a unique perspective on our politics and our humanity, to give hope in difficult times and to urgently remind us that the power to change the world is within our reach.

We Will Find Them: Arpilleras and the Political Art of Chile Under Pinochet by Jess White: In the shadow of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, resistance in Chile took many forms — including quiet stitches by hand. This new publication reveals the remarkable story of the arpilleristas: groups of women who transformed burlap or hessian cloth into vivid scenes of protest, community and hope.

Night School by Erin Honeycutt: Night School is the synthesis of dreamwork and bookwork, combining collaboration with dream-vision report, creative writing, and AI—a ‘Media Archaeology of Dreams’. Its central character is the author’s voice in this process through ekphrasis. What/where is the separation between the ekphrastic object, the dream, and its description? .liotheque

All of these, and more, available in the shop! 🛒

05/03/2026

Some favourites from our friends at !

GenderFail is an independent publisher that looks at q***rness as an identity that challenges capitalist, racist, ableist, zionist, xenophobic, transphobic, homophobic, misogynistic, and anti-environmental ideologies. GenderFail’s core model is not not-for-profit, but rather profit-for-survival or profit-to-continue-their-work-without-other-means-of-capital, and, most importantly, to generate revenue for the authors they publish, creating profit-for-labour.

📖 Q***r + Trans BIPOC + Palestinian Protest-Inspired Open-Source Type Anthology: GenderFail Anthology of Q***r Typography Vol.3 features 11 GenderFail protest-inspired open-source fonts drawn from powerful moments in the history of dissent in the US. Often, publications on typography fail to show the impact of the font in the lived world. The fonts are begging to be used, shared, and to make as significant an effect as possible.

📜 Gay Pompeii 79 A.D.: Award-winning author and curator Legacy Russell returns to poetry with a collection that begin at the end of the world. Rising out of Russell’s 2022-2023 Digital Fellowship at Archaeological Park of Pompeii, ‘Gay Pompeii’ uses the UNESCO World Heritage site as device with which the author unspools birth, death, genocide, visual culture, and space-time.

💡Boredom: An Anti-Capital-ist Tool: From GenderFail’s founder Be Oakley, this essay is broken into fragments of thoughts centered around boredom as revolutionary and anti-capitalist tool. Oakley explores ideas around shame, pride, bu****it jobs, dreaming, play and illness. The essay asks do working-class people have time to be bored? What does working-class Boredom look like?

All (and more!) available in the bookshop.

26/02/2026

🚨 NEW🚨 Isabel Waidner !

Two men meet in a flat in London. They are total strangers and yet they look remarkably alike. Lewis is grieving his dead wife; Korine is hiding from his very-much-alive one. Lewis never had children; Korine is an ambivalent parent at best. Lewis is an erstwhile actor, too depressed to attend the big audition that has just fallen into his lap. Korine has tried a dozen dead-end jobs but never pursued his acting dreams.

Two men seeking a second chance to get things right. Each wanting what the other has.

‘As If’ is an existential farce about the road not taken. Surreal and slyly poignant, suffused with ironic melancholia, it is a parable for the twenty-first century everyman: a character trapped in reality’s hall of mirrors, endlessly searching for something to live for.

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Available in the shop! 🛒

20/02/2026

The people want good writing about art, so we’re giving the people good writing about art.

💥 Today, we’re digitally serving up some nice new-in books. (For the non-digital serving up, come and see us in real life, please.)

The Oracle: On Fantasy and Freedom: Art assumes the existence of a tiny but meaningful spot from which to dream and demand freedom and peace. The Oracle is about this spot.

A Shift of Identity: Visual artist, curator, and researcher Sarojini Lewis investigates the work of contemporary North Indian artists from the diaspora in Mauritius, Suriname, and Guyana. This is a richly layered exploration of identity, migration, and memory through art, blending visual culture, feminist critique, diasporic history, and postcolonial theory.

Utterly Lazy and Inattentive: When Martin Parr was fourteen, his teacher wrote that he was ‘utterly lazy and inattentive’ in a school report. He went on to become one of the most successful and sought-after photographers in the world. This autobiography combines over 150 of Martin’s photographs, with his recollections and reflections on each image.

Afterwards: Art in the Time of Change: A collection of essays and interviews reflecting on the future through the lens of artistic thought and action. This book is an invitation to consider how imagination and critical inquiry can help us navigate the uncertainties of what lies ahead.

No Tags: Conversations on underground music culture, Vol. 2: No Tags is a podcast and newsletter about underground music culture hosted by Chal Ravens and Tom Lea. This is their second publication, sharing some of the best interviews and discussions carried out during their second year.

Water Works: Ecosocial Design: Featuring a collection of essays and case studies, Water Works shows over sixty careful responses to flooding, draught, pollution, extraction and other issues around freshwater. Through thoughtful writing, learn from places and makers that build on the intricate relationships between people and other life forms, materials and (infra)structures.

All of these, and more, available in the shop! 🛒

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