Book Works engages in a wide range of commissioning activities as well as publishing, including new media projects, site specific installations, slide-plays and touring exhibitions.	Sharp Talk continues our tradition of working with writers to produce innovative and experimental texts. Book Works has developed a new series entitled Sharp Talk funded by the Arts Council of England Literature department. We have commissioned new works drawn from a broad range writers including; Dario Azzellini, Will Bradley, Lavinia Greenlaw, Duncan McLaren, Malu Halasa and Julian Stallabrass. Each has produced a new text, developed from a selection of our recent titles, which will form a series of emailable, downloadable works, specially designed by Red Leader Industries.
		Reading Karl Marx continues Rainer Ganahl's ongoing investigation into the act of reading as an artistic and pedagogical activity. His online project is a dedicated site, documenting the various reading seminars that he has carried out internationally. These seminars themselves are supplemented by an online discursive platform where you can take part.
		Seven Wonders of the World, curated by Matthew Higgs, is a project that documents the responses of sixty-six individuals and groups to the same proposition - "Suggest your own alternatives to the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World".
		Softhook by Christian Nold seeks to improve 'the disappointing dullness and simplicity of the world". His project with Book Works - Bring the House Down involves Autonomous Balloon/Strobe - a crowd forming weapon designed to bring the house down literally.
		There is also a unique book, with images from the internet hand rendered in gouache.  The Citizens is a publication marking a particular moment in the development of the internet. Nick Crowe has worked with the web sites of private individuals, downloading hundreds of home pages, translating some of them from digital code to simple line drawings that have been traced onto typographic detail paper, and then returned back on to the internet as a downloadable bookwork. The resulting work - a book of home pages existing both as a unique work on paper and as 1,000 numbered digital copies - has been co-published by Artec and Book Works, and brings into play both old and new technologies, making for a haunting return to the internet.