Tag: Printed Matter Bookshop

100th Anniversary of Letter to My Father book reading

Book reading of ‘Letter to My Father’ not by Kafka himself but Kafka-enthusiast, local writer, Howard Colyer. 6pm at the shop. Free entry. This letter is the closest that Kafka…
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Book launch of Robin Young’s Dhanmondi Road

Book launch of Robin Young’s ‘Dhanmondi Road’ here in the shop. Monday 14th October. 6pm. Free entry. The year is 1973. The Bangladesh war of independence is over but the…
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PM Book Club

Thanks to everyone who came last night, another good discussion. The next choice of book is Guy Standing’s ‘The Plunder of the Commons’ available for all attendees for £8.99 from…
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Das Kapital Reading Group

The first meeting of the Das Kapital Reading Group will take place at 6pm, Monday, 30th September at the shop. The first session we’ll be discussing chapter one, which if…
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Divest! – short film and talk

FIND OUT HOW TO GET INVOLVED IN THE CAMPAIGN TO GET EAST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL TO STOP FUNDING CLIMATE CHANGE (EVENT INCLUDES A SCREENING OF THE SHORT FILM ‘DIVEST’) It…
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Book launch of Stolen with Grace Blakeley

PM bookshop will be jointly hosting the book launch of ‘Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation’ with Grace Blakeley and Hastings Momentum, at St Mary in the Castle,…
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PM Book Club

Next PM Book Club we’ll be discussing, Akala’s ‘Natives’. This will take place on Monday, 22 July at the slightly later time of 6.30pm. New members welcome. A searing modern…
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Planning meeting for Spirit of Robert Tressell festival

Next planning meeting for those wanting to get actively involved with the ‘Spirt of Robert Tressell Festival’ will be held at Printed Matter Bookshop on Monday, 8th July at 6pm.…
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Film Screening Groundswell:The Grassroots Battle for the NHS

Printed Matter will be hosting a film screening of ‘Groundswell – The Grassroots Battle for the NHS’ in the back room at The Pig’s Palace (formerly The Palace), 37 White…
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Book launch of ‘Plunder of the Commons’ with Guy Standing

Book launch of Professor Guy Standing’s latest book, ‘Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth’. Guy Standing is a British professor of Development Studies at the School…
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PM Radical Book Club

Next PM Book Club will be on Tuesday, 25th June at 6pm. We’ll be discussing Naomi Klein’s book ‘No Is Not Enough’. New members welome. Book a available form PM…
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Book talk with Justyn Barnes on ‘Ikigai’

For Independent Bookshop Week (15th-22nd June), local writer, Justyn Barnes, will be giving a talk on his new book ‘Ikigai: Discover Your Reason for Being’, on Monday, 17th June at…
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Really Independent Bookshop Week! Hastings & St Leonards

‘Hastings & St Leonards ‘Really Independent Bookshop Week’, 2019 is running from Saturday June 15th to Saturday June 22nd. We will be running events across the week at four venues…
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Planning meeting for Spirit of Robert Tressell Festival

A couple of us are thinking of putting on a Spirit of Robert Tressell Festival here in Hastings, if you would be prepared to help with the organsing on the…
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Book launch of The Lark Ascending with Richard King

Book talk & Q&A with Richard King & Ben Thompson at Printed Matter Bookshop, 185 Queens Road, Hastings, TN34 1RG. 6pm. Free entry. Thursday, 4th July. The Lark Ascending, Ralph…
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Book reading with Owen Hatherley in Post-Soviet Space

Book talk & Q&A with Owen Hatherley & Ben Thompson at Printed Matter Bookshop, 185 Queens Road, Hastings, TN34 1RG. 6pm. Free entry. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was…
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The Finance Curse film and Q&A with John Christensen

It is widely recognised that natural resources like oil can become a curse rather than a blessing for some states that produce them. In our seminal analysis, The Finance Curse,…
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PM Radical Book Club

Next PM Book Club we’ll be discussing Nicholas Shaxson’s ‘Treasure Islands’. Monday, 11th March at 6pm. Printed Matter Bookshop, 185 Queens Road, Hastings, TN34 1RG. This is the web, but…
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Book reading of Bindlestiff with Wayne Holloway

Book reading of Bindlestiff with Wayne Holloway, Thursday, 7th March at 6pm. Printed Matter Bookshop, 185 Queens Road, Hastings, TN34 1RG. Free entry. The year 2036; in a broken down…
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Dickens’ A Christmas Carol – 175th Anniversary Reading

The 19th of December marks the 175th anniversary of Dickens’ much-loved ghost story, ‘A Christmas Carol’ being published. To mark the anniversary we’re going to hold a reading from the…
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