Welcome to Burley Fisher Books, Haggerston’s independent bookshop

Look below for news of our upcoming events, or browse our online shop for the latest releases that we are most excited about.

Thank you so much to everyone who supported our kickstarter campaign, the basement space is now open! Send us an email (shop@burleyfisherbooks.com) if you are interested in hiring the space.

Upcoming Events

My Mother Laughs by Chantal Akerman: Daniella Shreir and Nicole Flattery

30 September @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Chantal Akerman’s body of work explores dislocation, in-betweenness and fluidity. Her writing, like her life and work, resists easy categorisation. My Mother Laughs places stills from her films among imperfectly perfect fragments of writing to create a distillation of the themes Akerman pursued throughout her creative life, and a version of the simplest and most […]

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Launch: This Way to Departures by Linda Mannheim: in conversation with Stuart Evers

3 October @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Pleasure join us for the launch of THIS WAY TO DEPARTURES, a new collection of stories by Linda Mannheim. We are delighted to announce that Linda will be in conversation with Stuart Evers on the night. What happens when we leave the places we’re from? What do we lose, and who do we become, and […]

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Opening hours:

Monday-Friday: 08:30-19:00
Saturday: 09:00-18:00
Sunday: 12:00-18:00