The Common Press | London's queer intersectional Bookshop
café, bar & Community Hub. Est. 2021
We are more than a bookshop.
The Common Press is a not-for-profit queer community venue that means many things to many people. As London's first consciously queer intersectional bookshop, we provide a sanctuary and third space for LGBTQIA+ literature, arts, culture, and community, creating space for queers to gather, connect, and belong, both during the day and into the night.
We stand up for what we believe in. Our shelves hold more than 7,000 books exploring trans-inclusive feminism, anti-colonialism, anti-fascism, climate justice, wellbeing, and self-care. Alongside our bookshop, we host programme of events that bring our community together to learn, organise, celebrate, and imagine new possibilities.
we are growing our community across London.
Visit us in Shoreditch or Dalston.
Events until late
Events until late
Soft opening
Shoreditch -East
OPEN NOW
Dalston - North
Upcoming Events!
If you'd like to see our upcoming events in a calendar format, you can click here. We also post monthly summaries of upcoming events to our instagram!
we are more than a bookshop.
A radical, independent space that stands up for what we believe in.
The Common Press is one of London's best independent bookshops that champions books by queer, underrepresented authors, voices and those from the Global majority. Across both venues we host a diverse range of events including book clubs, live music, wellbeing sessions, workshops, family-friendly events, and club nights.
Whether you're looking for the latest novels by your favourite gay, lesbian, queer, trans, and non-binary authors; seminal works of Black history; fourth-wave feminist theory; or that niche book on disability activism, we either have it or know how to get it fast. It's not just novels and theory, we also stock poetry, plays, graphic novels, and a great collection of books for children and young adults. And if, after all that browsing, you're feeling a bit tired, we make a pretty great coffee, cuppa and drinks as you ease into the evening & nightlife culture.
Proudly Black, Queer & Trans owned
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