Blog – Page 5 – Henningham Family Press

Now Legwarmers now available to all bookshops!

By - David
Posted on April, 20, 2018June, 27, 2018

We are pleased to announce that Now Legwarmers has arrived at our distributor NBN International! You can buy Now Legwarmers direct from us here (the best way to buy within UK if you want to support our authors). You can also order the book through any bookshop NOW! This might work out better for international readers.

Now Legwarmers to be launched at 40FT Brewery! 20/04/18

By - David
Posted on April, 6, 2018April, 9, 2018

We are delighted to announce we will be launching Pascal O’Loughlin bewitching debut novel Now Legwarmers at the 40FT Brewery! 114 years since plump Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus dipped their toes in the snotgreen sea at Dublin’s Forty Foot, join us as we dip our toes into the canon of Irish literary fiction at

Now Legwarmers Trailer: 20th April 2018, 6pm-9pm, Dalston

By - David
Posted on March, 28, 2018

Pascal’s friend Mark has made a video trailer for Now Legwarmers. Thank you Mark! Remember you can join us in Dalston for the Launch on 20th April 2018. RSVP for a drinks token and further details. Pre-Sale now on HERE £12.99 FREE UK P&P

Come help us launch Now Legwarmers, 20th April 2018

By - David
Posted on March, 26, 2018

This April we launch the first in a new series of novels, Now Legwarmers by Pascal O’Loughlin! 6pm-9pm Friday 20th April 2018 Secret location! (3mins from Dalston Kingsland and Dalston Junction Overground) RSVP to receive a drinks token (limited): david [at] henninghamfamilypress.co.uk This beautiful litho-printed and notch-bound paperback has a short cover (image by Mike Newton)

Artists’ Bookmarket, Fruitmarket Gallery

By - David
Posted on February, 21, 2018February, 21, 2018

We had a wonderful two days at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery, and a warm welcome from the city. I delivered a talk on variations on concertina binding that culminated in wrapping the audience in our monumental Moscow book A Line of Five Feet. The audience was roughly the same size, so it seemed the logical thing

FREE Austerity Measure offer if you subscribe before Christmas! (Expires 20th Dec)

By - David
Posted on December, 1, 2017December, 1, 2017

Christmas 2017 You may already have bought your literary loved-one a present for Christmas. Good job you kept the receipt! We are offering subscription to our brand new 2018 Adult Fiction for £150! My mother always says you need something to open on the day. So the first 10 to Subscribe before Christmas 2017 will receive a

Letters Home: The First World War Poetry Kit

By - David
Posted on October, 5, 2017December, 23, 2022

by David & Ping Henningham with The National Poetry Library Librarians The Times Educational Supplement, Britain’s leading education periodical, has published a feature on ‘Letters Home: The First World War Poetry Kit’, a book we published in collaboration with the Southbank Centre’s National Poetry Library; The aim was to create a resource using inspirations that

HFP & Herxheimer at FREE VERSE (the Poetry Book Fair) 30/09/17 (12 noon reading)

By - David
Posted on September, 11, 2017September, 11, 2017

We are delighted to announce we will be exhibiting at FREE VERSE, London’s pre-eminent Poetry Book Fair. If you are a poetry reader you will probably already have this event in your diary, but we would urge anyone at all interested in Independent Publishing and Literature to come. It brings together some of the most vibrant

Sophie Herxheimer homage to Emily Dickinson: Your Candle Accompanies The Sun

By - David
Posted on July, 28, 2017July, 28, 2017

We are proud to announce a dazzling forthcoming book. Artist and poet Sophie Herxheimer re-imagines Emily Dickinson’s self-imposed seclusion as an act of empowerment. In a series of collage poems, Sophie’s words and images re-present a paradoxical poet, fixed in space, yet ranging freely in imagination and innovation. This is a homage to the human

Urban Village Fete, Greenwich Peninsula, 21/05/17, noon – 5.30pm

By - David
Posted on May, 19, 2017

Henningham Family Press return to the Urban Village Fete to present a Pop-out DNA Poetry Game. Visitors will use the same body-building rules that DNA uses to build a chain of visual poetry. Just like a human body is built through the writing and reading of base-pairs, solidarity in a body of people is made through our