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*THIS EVENT IS NOW TAKING PLACE @25_prince_edward_st from 5:30-7pm* This Saturday, 16th May! Please join us for the launch of REPORTS FROM THE NOSE by Emma Aars, published by Lunchtime Gallery. There will be readings by Kate Timney, Olivia Wiles & Emma Aars. Ivy, rhubarb, dust. The short version. Reports from the Nose is a collection of writings about smell and scent, first published as a series of newsletters by Emma Aars. Moving between essay and poetry, the texts explore the writer’s relationship to scent through everything from perfume to the smells of a life. In the book, smells structure Emma’s sense of self and belonging in years of movement and change, living between Oslo, Glasgow, Rome and London. Smells also interrupt, disappear and confuse, and using words to describe them regularly exposes the limits of language. While many of the texts are anchored in different fragrances, the project deals with a larger idea: what smells mean to one’s sense of self, and how language might grasp something that is both intangible and ever-present. 5 - 7pm Free All are welcome!

✰ Next Event! ✰ Thursday 14th May Please join us for the Glasgow launch of David Sherry’s newest book, Escape Artist Setlist, published by us, Good Press! David will joined by Marcus Jack for some readings on the night :) David Sherry makes sculpture, drawing, video and performance work that reflects upon the absurdity of everyday life. This exhibition includes a selection of his videos recording performances that date from the late 1990s to the present day. These are shown alongside several of Sherry’s painted banners, made as ‘set lists’ for performances.

His work derives from pushing at the boundaries of social expectation. As he loads margarine onto his shirt sleeve, squirts ketchup onto his face or examines objects with pointed intensity, Sherry’s performances are reminiscent of the way children interact with the world, with a sense of curiosity, unburdened by presuppositions about how they ‘should’ behave. His work allows a wry smile at such expectations, asking how our complicity with them laces society together.

Many of his performances are shaped by the format of deadpan observational comedy as he monologues on social anxieties and their interactions with a wider political picture. Often out on the street, Sherry performs to a backdrop of traffic and bustling pedestrians. Passersby offer anything from a glance to a conversation as they encounter him standing on a plinth, painting a curb the colour of a curb, traipsing about town with a precarious cargo of cardboard boxes or having his hair painted to the pavement. Sherry’s work looks askance at the social codes of the public realm, rupturing the fabric of daily life.

This publication collects various works from the past five years so. 6:30-8pm All are welcome Free!

🤝 As a community-centred business & worker’s cooperative, we want to take a moment and reiterate our ongoing commitment to transparency and our unwavering support of Palestine, PACBI, Palestine Action & other activist groups. These movements hold a vital place within the arts and music communities of Glasgow - and the world at large. We stand in full solidarity with @ccaworkers @artworkersforpalestinescotland @bookworkers4pal @palestianyouthmovement @queers.for.palestine and the countless others who share this ethos. We feel it’s crucial that cultural organisations and businesses use their voices and platform to promote and enact positive change and make use of the tools they have at their disposal. In that spirit, we want to reemphasise that we’re keen and able to offer what we can, things that we have direct access to here at 32 St. Andrews Steet. This ranges from: — Free / discounted printing for activist posters & flyers. — A safe space of refuge for all during protests (And not during protests too!) — A plethora of books on Palestine, fascism, capitalism, self-organisation, abolition, critical theory and other pertinent topics. — Free use of the space for meetings & events. As mentioned in our Open Policy, we remain accountable to you - the community that sustains and shapes us. If you ever have any questions or ideas, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. (Email is better than DMs) 🤝

*EDIT* THE SHOP IS NOW CLOSED TODAY!! Due to the premiership final we’re anticipating severe disruption in town and so for everyone’s safety we’re moving the launch tonight to @25_prince_edward_st still from 5:30-7pm — huge thank you to @city___gallery and @arrantindustries Hello! 🌞We’re open slightly later today until 7pm, as we are hosting the launch of @nicehangover ‘s Reports from the Nose (lilac guy in the front!) published by @lunchtimegallery from 5-7pm. Readings from Emma, Olivia Wiles and @katetimney ~ all welcome!

Upcoming event! Wednesday 27th May

Studying (in) friendship: Giovanni Marmont in conversation with Laura C. Forster and Joel White

Please join us for the Scottish launch of Giovanni Marmont’s first book, A Studious Use: Designing from the undercommons, published in March 2026 by Minor Compositions (Autonomedia). Giovanni will be in conversation with Laura C. Forster and Joel White, co-authors of Friends in Common: Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities (Pluto Press, 2025). The dialogue will address some of the points of convergence between the two books, especially focussing on the theme friendship. As the authors agree – albeit from different perspectives – practices of friendship can play a crucial if sometime understated part in the defence of solidaristic forms of life, relentlessly threatened by capitalism’s web of demands and desires, as well as in the experimentation with new modes of sociality, organised around mutual indebtedness rather than self-improvement and accreditation. 6:30 - 8pm Free All are welcome!

New In! — MSHERESIES 7: INTRODUCTION TO THE WEATHER — DANCE HISTORY(S): IMAGINATION AS A FORM OF STUDY by Annie-B Parson & Thomas DeFrantz (Eds.) — UP ALL NIGHT: A HISTORY OF GOING OUT by Imogen Willetts — HOPE: I-X by Harmony Goodfellow — THE REMAINS by Sally Barrett — STAND HERE by Patrick Cauty — THE UTOPIANS by Grace Nissan — NIGHT SCHOOL by Erin Honeycutt — DAY BOOK by Gill Houghton — LE JARDIN SANS SOLEIL by Marie Zolamian — RECLINING FRAGMENTS by Ritsart Gobyn

New In! — BOOK OF BOOK COVER PAINTINGS, 2023–2024 by Kevin Siwoff — RETROGRADE PROMETHEUS: SUBJECTIVITY & COMPUTATION by Christian Nirvana Damato — KVLT KATALOGVE by That Damn Culprit — ATTENTION-SEEKING BEHAVIOUR by Aea Varfis-van Warmelo — MISSED CONNECTIONS WITH TALL GIRLS by Gwen Aube — THE LEATHERSEX TRIPTYCH by yr girl, yvette — THIS BOOKLET CONTAINS TRANSSEXUAL NUDITY by Ada Logan — SALTWATER SWANS by Emily Mesner & Victoria Petersen — EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE by Emily Mesner & Victoria Petersen — FRIENDLY DEMONS by Marie-Alice Harel

New In! (it’s a big one!) — GRIM TORMENTOR by Ed Cheverton — INCARNATION by Ed Cheverton — CHECKPOINT by Ed Cheverton — UAP 2 by Ed Cheverton — AN ECHO IN SEARCH OF ITS SHADOW, AESTHETICS OF THE REPRESSED by Adam HajYahia & Haitham Haddad — BEING THE NEGATIVE by Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme — WET GRAIN ISSUE 7 — SELECTED POEMS by Pat Parker — SKULL TIME MOVIE JOURNAL by Ben Haggar — THE BEAST WITH TWO PAPERBACKS by Ben Haggar — FRAYED EDGES by Laura Davis — DIET OF FLEAS by Aurelie Stutz — ANYTHING THAT BLEEDS by Lily Pearl Veinia — ON SMALL LOSING by Stephanie Ritzema — BRAIN DEAD: THE SLOW ERASURE OF EMPTY TIME by Paul Robinson — PEBBLES FROM A MACHINE — AN IMMIGRANT’S GUIDE TO INFILTRATING A PLACE by Bhavani Balasubramanyam — GHOST TRAINS by Bhavani Balasubramanyam — OF PATTERNS AND TRACES by Deepesh Sangtani — KONNI-CHHUA by Deepesh Sangtani

New In! — THIS POOR BOOK by Fanny Howe — CHOP CHOP — LIMPID BLUE by Olly Geary — THE CLEAN: IN THE DREAMLIFE YOU NEED A RUBBER SOUL by Richard Langston — SAPPHO TERROR by Maura Modeya — GRAPHIC DESIGN, AI, AND FEMINISM by Beth Tianxin Xia — NOWHERE NEAR by Miko Revereza — THE WAITING LIST — HOMELOVIN’: THE PILGRIM AGE by Paul Haworth — THE VELDT INSTITUTE by Samuel M. Moss

New In! — WITCHES OF DESIGN – ANN LEE: DESIGN, TRANCE AND FEMINISM by Alexandra Midal — SPANISH CANTE JONDO AND ITS ORIGIN IN SINDHI MUSIC by Aziz Balouch — HOW TO SPEAK DEAD by Walid Sadek — HOW TO LIVE FROM FIRE TO FIRE by Olivier Marboeuf — ARCHITECTURE AS A HISTORICAL DISCIPLINE by Vittorio Pizzigoni — GLOBAL FASCISMS — THE LITTLE REVIEW: ISSUE NO. 3 — THIS TIME by Alison Roe — FIERCE PUSSY

New In! — DRAWINGS, COLLAGES, PAINTINGS by Adam Bohman — CLOSE WRITING : KATHY ACKER, COOKIE MUELLER, AND LOVE-IN-PIECES by Alice Butler — I WILL ALWAYS BE LOOKING FOR YOU – A QUEER ANTHOLOGY ON ARAB ART by Yasmine Rifaii & Nadim Choufi (Eds.) — IT WAS LIKE WATCHING by Danny Hayward — TEXTILE TALES ISSUE 2: SYRIAN STITCHING by Iris Stovell & Ebtisam El-Sharkawy — TEXTILE TALES ISSUE 1: WOMEN WEAVING STORIES OF SEXUAL ASSAULT by Iris Stovell — BENEATH GAZA’S STARS by Heba Ali — ABBISSENICX ISSUE 0 by Kelly Wang — HEBRIDEAN PALETTE by Lois Macleod

New In! — OF ENEMIES & VENISON: FIRST MATERIALS FOR AN AZTEC COSMOTECHNIC by Lou Manuel Arsenault — TWO HOURS AGO I FELL IN LOVE: DECONSTRUCTING FASCIST IMAGINARY ON SEX, LOVE AND GENDER by Alice Minervini (Ed.) — SLICK by Lucie McLaughlin & Jacob Calland — SENSIBLES Y VENGATIVXS by Florencia Rodriguez Giles — EFEMMERA REISSUE #3: SAVING SEEDS - METAPHORS OF LESBIAN GROWTH — IN THE ABSENCE OF BOMBS: ART, WAR, AND SILENCE by Pascal Gielen & Bahia Shehab (Eds.) — NO GHOSTS by Max Lury — P.E.A.C.E. by Chariot Wish