🚨CROWDFUND ALERT🚨
We’re asking our community to help us raise £50,000 to move to a bigger space. If you’ve been to our shop, you’ll know why!
Round Table Books has come a long way in the 6 years since we first opened. From a pop-up selling underrepresented children’s books, to a vibrant community hub selling BOTH children and adult books celebrating Global Majority, LGBTQIA+, Global South, Neurodivergent and Disability experiences, our tiny shop has become a meeting site of ideas, laughter and the potential of our community.
Our current space is waaaaay too small for everything we’re trying to do. We want to raise enough money to move into a shop with enough room for books, in house events for readers of all ages, as well as (drumroll please….) a café, bar and community space with room for workshops, talks, exhibitions and more.
As a Community Interest Company, we don’t exist to make a profit. We have no shareholders, and our only ambition is celebrating the people who write and rest brilliant books, and making sure the shop is sustainable for years and generations to come. Too many Black, Global Majority and LGBTQIA+ venues in Lambeth and across London have had to close, and we want to buck that trend.
Click the link in the bio to donate, and read more about our crowdfund (including a breakdown of what we need the £50,000 for) 💛🩵🩷
£50,000 is A LOT, so expect to see lots of posts over the next 6 weeks as we try to reach our goal 🎯📚
#bookshop #roundtablebooks #independentbookstore #independentbookshop #independentcoffeeshop #brixton #crowfund
Join us for a night of conversation around activism in the context of Fela Kuti’s life and work with the co-creators of Fela, Jibola Fagbamiye & Conor McCreery, and local activist Oduenyi
FELA: MUSIC AS A WEAPON IS A MAGICAL-REALISM JOURNEY THROUGH THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE LEGENDARY NIGERIAN MUSICIAN AND ACTIVIST FELA KUTI. HIS ANTI-COLONIAL, ANTI-FASCIST VIEWPOINT IS ALL THE MORE IMPORTANT TODAY THAN EVER.
Jibola Fagbamiye is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary visual artist, illustrator, and storyteller whose work sits at the intersection of African history, political resistance, and North American pop culture.
Conor McCreery is an Eisner-nominated writer and a journalist who’s worked on two continents. In addition to Fela: Music is the Weapon, his newest projects are the YA adventure series, The Last Witch (BOOM!), the coming-of-age tale Status.
Oduenyi is a Nigerian Irish-born Director, Curator, Warrior Poet and musician. They are a core member of TRIBE, an experimental community space built around art.
🗓️Friday, 22nd of May
📍Round Table Books CIC, 10-11 Granville Arcade, Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8PR (next to Honest Burger)
⏰18:30 - 21:00
🎟️ link in our bio
The ticket price is redeemable for a copy of Fela: Music is a Weapon on the night.
Join award-winning writers Canisia Lubrin and Nick Makoha at the intimate Studio 12 for a special evening of conversation and readings exploring poetics, Black aesthetics, migration, memory and visual art as a site of imaginative renewal.
Canisia Lubrin is a poet, writer, editor and professor. Author of Code Noir, The Dyzgraphxst, Voodoo Hypothesis, The World After Rain and Bright Machine (2026), Lubrin is the recipient of, among other distinctions, a Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Griffin Poetry Prize, Danuta Gleed Award, and Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.
Poet, playwright and founder of the Obsidian Foundation, Nick Makoha is one of the UK’s most compelling contemporary poets. His new collection, The New Carthaginians (Penguin, 2025), was shortlisted for the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize. He has won the 2021 Ivan Juritz Prize and Poetry London Prize, and his debut collection, Kingdom of Gravity (2017), was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize and named one of The Guardian’s best books of the year.
This rare evening brings together two internationally acclaimed writers whose work reshapes the possibilities in contemporary poetry and fiction. The evening will include readings from Lubrin’s radiant new collection The World After Rain, as well as selections from Makoha’s T.S. Eliot Prize shortlisted collection The New Carthaginians.
Books by both authors will be available to purchase on the night from Round Table Books.
Studio 12’s bar will be open throughout the evening. Guests are welcome to stay after the conversation for drinks and book signings.
Tickets:
£8 = General Admission
£18 = Admission + £10 Book Voucher redeemable with Round Table Books
2 for 1 tickets are available for general admission until midnight on Sunday 17th and there is 25% off tickets with @roundtablebooks £10 book voucher with the code 1/2+BOOKVOUCHER
Ticket link is in bio
Slide 1: Video Clip of Canisia Lubrin reading from Code Noir courtesy @loopholeofretreatvenice in October 2022
Welcome to the new @roundtablebooks 💫
It started as a pop-up. One week on Coldharbour Lane in 2019, celebrating the books and voices that don’t always get the shelf space they deserve. 💛
Five years later, this Community Interest Company is one of the most loved spaces in Brixton Village — and they just got bigger. 📖
Their crowdfunder, A Space for Us All, brought together hundreds of supporters to help make it happen.
The new space is only a few steps from where they began: custom shelves, a café, a bar, and a flexible events space for story times, workshops, talks and more. A home for Black, Global Majority, LGBTQIA+, neurodiverse, disabled and Global South voices — for kids, adults, and everyone in between.
London’s most diverse bookshop. Right here in Brixton Village. 📚
📍 Round Table Books, Unit 10 & 11, Granville Arcade
✨🚨EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT🚨✨
We are so excited to welcome Booker Prize-shortlisted author Brandon Taylor in conversation at Brixton House once again, for the only London date on his UK tour.
Brandon joins us to discuss his acclaimed new novel MINOR BLACK FIGURES: a captivating modern love story following Wyeth, a young gay Black painter navigating desire, creativity, faith, and what it means to make art in a deeply politicised post-pandemic world.
Expect an insightful evening of shared dialogue and engagement with an audience Q&A and book signing afterwards.
📍 23 June, 6.30pm | @brxhousetheatre
🎟 Tickets at brixtonhouse.co.uk or via the link in bio.
📚 @roundtablebooks will be selling copies on the night.
We can’t wait to welcome Brandon back to Brixton for what promises to be a very special evening. Stay tuned for our host announcement.💥📣
#BrandonTaylor #MinorBlackFigures #BrixtonHouse #DarkMatterMKTG #LondonBookEvents
As many of you already know we have sold out of Week 1 of the Audre Lorde Yoga Series! Thank you to everyone who has bought a ticket and please buy some for the coming weeks as they are going fast!
I would also like to announce that in collaboration with @roundtablebooks I will be selling some of Audre Lorde’s titles as well as @alexispauline ‘s Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.
All of these texts have been instrumental to my understandings of Black feminism, my own sense of self, and of course my preparation for this yoga series and I would love to provide access to them. If you would like to pre-order any texts please drop me a DM. I will only be taking card payments at sessions (sorry). So looking forward to seeing everyone 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
✨🎈IT’S OUR BIRTHDAY 🎈✨ this time next week we’ll be turning 7 (!) come and celebrate with us over the Bank Holiday weekend 💃🏽
Link in bio to bday party tix 🎂
Come and join the International Booker-shortlisted author, Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, and translator Lin King in discussing their book, Taiwan Travelogue. They will be in conversation with our very own Meera Ghanshamdas. The event will be just two days before the International Booker announcement!
A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history and power
Yáng Shuāng-zǐ is a Taiwanese writer of fiction, essays, manga and video game scripts, and literary criticism. Her novel Taiwan Travelogue, her first book to be translated into English, won the National Book Award for Literature in Translation in 2024 and Asia Society’s inaugural Baifang Schell Book Prize
Lin King is a writer and translator based in Taipei and New York. Her fiction has appeared in One Story, Boston Review, and Joyland, among others, and has received the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.
The price of the ticket is redeemable against a copy of Taiwan Travelogue on the night.
🗓️: Sunday, 17th of May
📍: Round Table Books CIC, 10-11 Granville Arcade, Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8PR (next to Honest Burger)
⏰: 18:30 - 21:00
Tickets available through our bio or on the Round Table Books website
This event is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
It’s time to learn a little bit more about our in-house Barista & Bookseller 🌀Blue🌀
Self-proclaimed vibe in one line - Woo-woo Nerd 🧘🏼♂️📓
Currently reading - Male Daughters Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society 🪩
When not reading Blue’s probably - doing yoga 🤸🏼♂️
Swipe to see Blue’s fave books and say hi in the comments 💙
