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Vol. 2 of our unique film poster collection, that captures Egypt’s golden age of glamour and colour‼️Please DM for price...
03/06/2026

Vol. 2 of our unique film poster collection, that captures Egypt’s golden age of glamour and colour‼️

Please DM for price details and further information.

All posters are 1mt length x 70cm.

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29/05/2026

🎙️Another great night at Arch 156. joined for an evening of conversation, readings, and laughter as we celebrated On a Bus Without a Phone — a novel about technology, friendship, and the humiliations of contemporary life.





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25/05/2026

‼️Last chance to book tickets to 🎙️LIVE conversation with Sophie about his brilliant novel, On the Bus Without a Phone, this coming Thursday at 7:00 p.m.

A hilariously bleak meditation on modern humiliation, bad dates and what happens when you’re left alone with your own thoughts instead of your phone.

“Weirdly relatable, endlessly bleak and laugh out loud funny,” says James Acaster.

We agree James!

All ticket holders get a special Ganjei goody bag including a copy of his famous Film Ideas pamphlet and one of his pin badges courtesy of .

Don’t miss this one.

22/05/2026

: The Only Way To Fly by Richard Morton Jack dives deep into the band’s earliest days — from their formation in 1968 to the release of Led Zeppelin II.

Packed with rare archival material, unseen press coverage, and untold details from years of research, this is one for the true devotees.

Loud history in 348 pages. Come get it at Special Rider!

A chance to acquire something genuinely unique‼️We are pleased to offer a remarkable selection of original Egyptian film...
18/05/2026

A chance to acquire something genuinely unique‼️

We are pleased to offer a remarkable selection of original Egyptian film posters for sale at Special Rider. Bold and wildly inventive, these extraordinary works capture the golden age of Egyptian cinema in all its glamour, drama and colour.

Please DM for price details and further information.

So looking forward to this on May 28 with and in - don’t miss out. These two are hilarious as they are intelligent a...
12/05/2026

So looking forward to this on May 28 with and in - don’t miss out.

These two are hilarious as they are intelligent and brilliant so expect a good time.

Tickets available via link in bio

08/05/2026

New talk incoming! Special Rider is super excited to present the hilarious and brilliant in conversation with wonderful about his debut novel “On the Bus Without a Phone” - plus plenty else besides.

Expect melancholic stories, digressions, jokes, poetic chaos and lots and lots of over sharing inside a railway arch.

(See ticket link bio)

📅 Thursday 28 May, 7:15pm
📍 , Arch 156.

Don’t miss it!📚

Tickets are moving fast for our book launch and talk with Will Self and ( ) on April 23rd — so please don’t delay. (Tic...
31/03/2026

Tickets are moving fast for our book launch and talk with Will Self and ( ) on April 23rd — so please don’t delay.

(Ticket link in bio)

Thirty-five years after his debut short story collection, The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Self returns with The Quantity Theory of Morality — a savage dispatch from a London morally hollowed out by its neoliberal elite.

It’s everything you’d hope for from Will Self: barbed, vitriolic, fiercely intelligent — with a distinctly Ballardian streak of violence.

Will shall be signing copies and adding personalised inscriptions to all pre-orders. Sadly because of his health he won’t be signing copies of the book on the night.

You can also drop by Special Rider to pick up a free booklet of psychogeographic maps tracing Will’s wanderings through Shepherd’s Bush — and the terrain of his novels.

Spring torrents! The rain has been hammering the arches, the gutters overflow, the smell of wet cardboard, flafel and fa...
10/03/2026

Spring torrents! The rain has been hammering the arches, the gutters overflow, the smell of wet cardboard, flafel and fake perfume drifts across .

These are good days to hide among books. To turn pages while the storm rattles the roof.

Open as usual. Come and shelter with us. 🌧️📚

I think Marcus Aurelius said it best when he said, “The happiness of your life depends on you going to see Tom Hodgkinso...
20/02/2026

I think Marcus Aurelius said it best when he said, “The happiness of your life depends on you going to see Tom Hodgkinson launch his new book, How to Live Like a Stoic, at Special Rider, .”

So take his advice and join us on the 6th of March. Tom will be chatting, reading, and doing a set of It Could Always Be Worse R&R classics with his band, The Loafers.

We all need a bit of help through this modern chaos, how to live life fully without it overwhelming us. Tom’s new book will give us the tools to do just that, while, as always with Tom, making it a laugh.

Please come along. You shall be entertained!

(See link for tickets in bio)

When: March 6th. 7pm
Where: Arch 156. Shepherds Bush Market
Price: £7 includes a drink

See link for tickets in bio



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