The Last Books is based in Amsterdam and edited by Phil Baber. The press was founded in 2012 with Snejanka Mihaylova.
The Yellow Papers is a series of short books and pamphlets on poetry and poetics.
See also: Don’t Pay Your Rent, an occasional reading series organized by TLB and Rietlanden Women’s Office.

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The Last Books is committed to the Palestinian international call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) and to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).

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Most of our titles can be ordered from Central Books in the UK and Asterism Books in the US. IRL stockists include San Serriffe (Amsterdam), Hopscotch Reading Room (Berlin), rile* (Brussels), After 8 (Paris), Good Press (Glasgow), East Bristol Books (Bristol), Topos Bookstore Too (NYC), Unnameable Books (NYC), Woodland Pattern (Milwaukee), Housmans (London), and the London Review Bookshop. However, the best way to support the press is by ordering directly from this website: we ship worldwide and all profit goes towards future publications.
We offer a 20% discount for students and unwaged people: enter the code 202020 on the cart page. If you would like to read but can’t afford to buy one of our books, please get in touch: we’re happy to supply PDFs of most of our titles.

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Contact: mail[at]thelastbooks.org
Barentszstraat 291-B, 1013 NN Amsterdam, NL

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Don’t Pay Your Rent #7

Triple book launch with readings by Imogen Cassels, John Wilkinson, and Keston Sutherland, Saturday 8 November at Rietlanden Women’s Office, Oudeschans 35, Amsterdam. BYOB for the communal drink table. Doors at 8 p.m., free entry.

Don’t Pay Your Rent #6

Join us for readings by Alix Chauvet, Cleo TSW, David Grundy, and Siyabonga Njica, and a solo trumpet set by Gabriel Bristow on Sunday 31 August 2025 at Rietlanden Women’s Office, Oudeschans 35, Amsterdam. From 5.30 p.m. Entrance free. BYOB for the communal drinks table.

Don’t Pay Your Rent #5

Jennifer Soong, Dom Hale, Steven Zultanski, and Daniel Voorthuys will read on Friday 16 May 2025 at Rietlanden Women’s Office, Oudeschans 35, Amsterdam. From 7.30 p.m., all welcome.

Don’t Pay Your Rent #4

Lola Olufemi, Smári Róbertson, S*an D. Henry-Smith, and Temra Pavlovic will read on Friday 26 May 2023 at Rietlanden Women’s Office, Minahassastraat 1, Amsterdam. From 7.30 p.m., all welcome.

Don’t Pay Your Rent #3

Artun Alaska Arasli, Joe Luna, Mia You, and Will Pollard will read at Rietlanden Women’s Office on Thursday 13 April 2023 at Minahassastraat 1, Amsterdam. From 7.30 p.m., all welcome.

Don’t Pay Your Rent #2

Cassandra Troyan, Dom Hale, Halla Einarsdóttir, and Nadia de Vries will read at Rietlanden Women’s Office on Tuesday 21 June 2022 at Minahassastraat 1, Amsterdam. From 6 p.m., all welcome.

Don’t Pay Your Rent #1

Fred Carter, Amy De’Ath, Paige Murphy, and Mia You will read on Sunday 10 April 2022 at Rietlanden Women’s Office, Minahassastraat 1, Amsterdam. From 5 p.m., all welcome.