Liverpool Biennial 2025 Reading List

This reading list features over 20 authors, including local writers Malik Al Nasir, Jennifer Lee Tsai and Jeff Young, and Liverpool Biennial 2025 artist Nour Bishouty.

The books are available to read in the reading area at Walker Art Gallery or can be purchased at Dead Ink Books.

LB2025 Exhibition Catalogue

Liverpool Biennial, BEDROCK. (Liverpool Biennial, 2025)

LB2025 Artist Publication

Bishouty, Nour. 731.52cm of Land. (Art Metropole, 2025)

Writers from the City

Al Nasir, Malik. Letters to Gil. (Harper Collins, 2021)

Lee Tsai, Jennifer. Kismet. (Oxford Brooks University, 2019)

Lee Tsai, Jennifer. La Mysterique. (Guillemot Press, 2022)

Young, Jeff. Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay. (Little Toller Books, 2020)

Wider Reading

Bakare, Lanre. We Were There: How Black culture, resistance and community shaped modern Britain. (Penguin, 2025)

Connolly, Nathan. Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class. (Dead Ink, 2017)

Crossnan, Maria and Eleanor Rees. The Book of Liverpool: A City in Short Fiction. (Comma Press, 2008)

Fowler, Corinne. Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England’s Colonial Connections. (Peepal Tree Press, 2020)

Fowler, Corinne. Our Island Stories: Country Walks through Colonial Britain. (Allen Lane, 2024)

Ghosh, Amitav. The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. (John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2021)

Hartman, Saidiya. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals. (Serpent’s Tail, 2019)

Hong, Cathy Park. Minor Feelings: A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition. (Penguin Random House, 2020)

Hui, Angela. Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter. (Trapeze, 2022)

Khatwa, Anjana. The Whispers of Rock: Stories from the Earth. (Little, Brown Book Group, 2025)

Le Guin, Ursula K. No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters. (Houghton Mifflin, 2017)

McCarthy Woolf, Karen. Ten: Poets of the New Generation. (Bloodaxe Books, 2017)

Sennett, Richard. Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City. (Penguin, 2018)

Sharpe, Christina. Ordinary Notes. (Daunt Publishing, 2023)

Said, Edward W. Out of Place: A Memoir. (Granta Books, 2000)

Shahwar, Durre and Nasia Sarwar-Skuse. Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature. (404 Ink, 2024)

Wetherell, Sam. Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain. (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025)

Wong, Alice. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire. (Vintage Books, 2024)

Wong, Alice. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century. (Vintage Books, 2020)

Yusoff, Kathryn. A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. (University of Minnesota Press, 2018)

Yusoff, Kathryn. Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race. (Duke University Press, 2024)