COOP

by Nida Sajid

Lena is a part-time bookseller in a bougie design studio in Oxford Circus. In between minimum-wage work under a politically hostile boss and strained communications with her parents, her days are shaped by a fraught relationship with food, ambiguous experiments in creative writing, and mounting pressure to find a ‘proper’ postgraduate job.

In taut, pocket-sized vignettes, COOP reveals a suffocating lattice of language that makes up a precarious London life. But as each word of her story unravels, Lena discovers interstices between them—to find autonomy and escape.

150 pages, Paperback

Published December 18, 2025

Reviews

[jq · Rating 5 out of 5]

(4.5)

[Marije de Wit · Rating 5 out of 5]

An absolute gem. Like the publisher states on their website and socials, this is a book “on work and words, and how they contort the world”, and “[it] slices right to the ugly core of Western literary and academic institutions.”