Newham Bookshop logo (2015)

Friday 22 November
at The Wanstead Tap

Decline and Fail

John Crace
Decline
and Fail

Read in Case of Political Apocalypse

Friday 29 November
at The Wanstead Tap

Award-winning
poetry with

Raymond Antrobus,
Salena Godden
& Nikita Gill

Saturday 30 November
from 10 am to 5 pm
at Newham Bookshop

Christmas Discount Day

20% off all books from
our wide-ranging stock

Wednesday 4 December
at The Wanstead Tap

We Fight Fascists

Daniel Sonabend

We Fight Fascists

In converstion with Michael Rosen

Regional Winner

Welcome to our website

We hope you like the look of our website, which we first set up in this form in November 2014. Come and look at it regularly for information about Newham Bookshop and particularly our exciting programme of events. Find an event quickly by selecting it from the list on the right of this page. Find details of the venues where we hold them.

Read our latest tweets and retweets, to find out what we are doing and who is involved. Tweet us @NewhamBookshop.

We’ll be adding more pages for new events, and other news and information about the Bookshop. You can now subscribe to our mailing list to get emails and the occasional glossy postcard or letter — if you haven’t already done so.

We’d like to welcome you to Newham Bookshop — find out how to visit us. Newham Bookshop has been serving the communities of east London for 41 years. Have a look at some of our history, and what we do, on the About us page.

Cressida Cowell with Elmhurst children

Newham Bookshop supports Children’s Book Week with Cressida Cowell at Elmhurst Primary School

Cressida Cowell

Children’s Book Week ran from 31 November to 4 October 2016 and is organised by BookTrust, the largest children’s reading charity in Britain. This annual event is intended to encourage more children to read for pleasure, and is aimed at primary school children. At Elmhurst Primary School, Forest Gate, on Monday 31 October 2016. Cressida Cowell, author of the How to Train your Dragon series, ran interactive workshops with 360 Elmhurst pupils. Read more.

Another Day in the Death of America

Gary Younge reads Radio 4’s Book of the Week

Gary Younge BBC Radio 4 logo

Gary Younge reads an abridged version of his book, Another Day in the Death of America on BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week, now available on BBC iPlayer Radio.


West Ham fans in queue Farewell to Upton Park

West Ham fans queue to meet Sir Trevor Brooking for Farewell to Upton Park signing

More than 100 West Ham fans queued up outside Newham Bookshop on Sunday 25 September 2016 to get a copy of Farewell to Upton Park signed by Sir Trevor Brooking. Click here for more pictures.

James Patterson grant for Newham Bookshop

James Patterson

We are delighted to have been awarded a grant by American thriller writer James Patterson to help create our parents’ and children’s reading and writing room. (More news about this when the work starts).

We are one of 73 independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland to get one of these grants, and we thank James Patterson for his generosity.

James Patterson is donating a total of £250,000 in grants to independent bookshops across Britain and Ireland.

He is a founding partner of the Children’s Reading Fund.

Forthcoming events


Friday 22 November at 7.30 pm
at The Wanstead Tap

John Crace
Decline and Fail
Read in Case of Political Apocalypse

Friday 29 November at 7.30 pm
at The Wanstead Tap

Raymond Antrobus,
Salena Godden
& Nikita Gill

Wednesday 4 December at 7.30 pm
at The Wanstead Tap

Daniel Sonabend
We Fight Fascists
The 43 Group and Their Forgotten
Battle for Post War Britain

In conversation with Michael Rosen

Past events and news


Suresh Singh
A Modest Living
Memoirs Of A Cockney Sikh

An Evening with
Lucinda Dickens Hawksley
Part of Redbridge Fabula Festival 2019

Eleanor Crow
Shopfronts of London
In conversation with Krissie Nicolson

Lucy O’Brien
Janette Mason and David McAlmont
Dusty in Words and Music

Carl Cattermole
Prison: A Survival Guide
In conversation with Deborah Coles

Jenni Murray
A History of the World
in 21 Women

Daniel Rachel
Don’t Look Back In Anger
In conversation with Paolo Hewitt

Esther Rutter
This Golden Fleece
A Journey Through
Britain’s Knitted History

Book Benefit for the
homeless in Newham

Launch party for
Luan Goldie
Nightingale Point

Ronnie le Drew
Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi
Zippy and Me

David Rosenberg
Rebel Footprints
in conversation with Asad Rehman

Pete Brown
Pie Fidelity
In Defence of British Food

Carol Ann Duffy
Poetry for the Insect Population
with Andrew McMillan, Matthew Hollis, Imtiaz Dharker, Zaffar Kunial,
Mark Pajak, Hannah Sullivan,
Sean Borodale, Ella Duffy
and Yvonne Reddick

David Hepworth
A Fabulous Creation
How the LP Saved Our Lives

5x15 on The Future of Education
with David Kynaston, Priya Lakhani, Alex Beard, Owen Jones,
Melissa Benn and Kate Clanchy

Cold War Steve
The Festival of Brexit
in conversation with Martin Rowson

Lucinda Gosling
Shirley Baker and Vintage Britain

Robert Elms
London Made Us
A Memoir of a Shape-Shifting City

Newham Word Festival logo
Michael Rosen
with Danny Braverman

Newham Word Festival logo
Bobby Seagull
The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers

Newham Word Festival logo
Suresh Singh
with Stef Dickers

Newham Word Festival logo
Duncan Barrett
Hitler’s British Isles

Newham Word Festival logo
Kate Thompson
and Melanie McGrath

Newham Word Festival logo
Regeneration Songs

Newham Word Festival logo
Asian Noir:
the new wave of crime fiction

Luke Turner
Out of the Woods

Danny Dorling
Rule Britannia
Brexit and the End of Empire

Doreen Fletcher, Paintings
with The Gentle Author

Benjamin Zephaniah
The Life and Rhymes
of Benjamin Zephaniah

in conversation with Cilius Victor

Peggy Seeger
First Time Ever

E. Foley and B. Coates
What Would Boudicca Do?

Bobby Seagull
The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers

Will Ashon
Chamber Music
Enter the Wu-Tang (in 36 Pieces)

Robin Ince
I’m a Joke and So Are You
A Comedian’s Take on
What Makes Us Human

Nicola Streeten and Cath Tate
The Inking Woman

Iain Sinclair
Living with Buildings

1968 and After:
Culture and Education

An evening with
Shami Chakrabarti and Rachel Holmes

Martin Rowson
The Pen is Mightier Than the Word

Ed Vulliamy
When Words Fail

Marcus Sedgwick & Dr Sam George
The Battle of the Books:
Frankenstein v. Dracula

Kenney Jones
Let the Good Times Roll

Ben Okri and special guests
Rise Like Lions

Adam Dant
Maps of London & Beyond

Sarah Ivens
Forest Therapy

Shore 2 Shore
with Carol Ann Duffy
Gillian Clarke, Imtiaz Dharker, Jackie Kay
and Maura Dooley, with music by John Sampson

Viv Albertine
To Throw Away Unopened

Melanie McGrath
Pie & Mash Down the Roman Road
in conversation with Duncan Barrett

James Bloodworth
Hired
Six Months Undercover
in Low-Wage Britain

Chris Difford
Full Acoustic Show
Some Fantastic place

Michael Rosen
So They Call You Pisher!

David Hepworth
Uncommon People
The Rise and Fall of the
Rock Stars 1955-1994

Liam Young and Simon Hannah
The Labour Party, past and present

Misha Glenny: McMafia
Seriously Organised Crime

Helen Pankhurst: Deeds Not Words
The Story of Women’s Rights,
Then and Now

Laura James and Jessie Hewitson discuss autism

Literary Natives
Writers of Colour Meet Up

John Davies: The Red Atlas
How the Soviet Union
Secretly Mapped the World

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