Bookhaus
Well-curated independent bookshop in Whapping Wharf.
Bookhaus is Bristol's best bookshop bar none - offering a quality selection of new editions from glossy coffee table tomes to paperbacks on politics, gender, race, the environment, self-help, plus an amazingly diverse fiction section. With frequent book launches and talks, it's become a vital hub for Bristol's casual readers and literati alike.
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Michelle Henning discusses her new work exploring the strange industrial origins of chemical photography. Alongside UWE researcher Rebecca Goddard, she’ll be at Bookhaus to discuss how photography depended on industrial chemicals and the spoils of empire, shaping our perceptions of the atmosphere and altering the world around us.
A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire at Bookhaus.
Sell out warning! Trees aren’t just trees, they’re keepers of mankind’s secret history. Beautifully illustrated and with a foreword by environmentalist extraordinaire Chris Packham, Folklore of Trees unlocks the mystery of nature’s giants like never before. Aidan Harte will be in person sharing stories of alders that bleed for Celtic warriors, eucalyptuses that act as ladders for aliens and centuries more arboreal curiosities.
Folklore of Trees: The fascinating stories behind nature’s guardians launch with Aidan Meighan
Just Stop Oil activist Roger Hallam launches his new prison-penned work Suicide. Blending memoir, legal theory and climate science, Hallam draws on his Crown Court trials and imprisonment to dissect the moral failures of law and so-called “reasonable” politics, arguing that in an age of ecological collapse, truth-telling itself has become a criminal act.
Suicide: The Political and Legal Implications of Creating Endless Mass Death with Roger Hallam
Celebrate the launch of From Bristol to Palestine, a new poetry collection composed of local voices responding to ongoing injustice and suffering. With live readings from contributors and editors, all proceeds from tickets and book sales will be donated to charities providing vital support to people in Gaza.
Poetic voices of resistance from Bristol
Decolonisation without platitudes: lecturer and researcher Davina Quinlivan joins Bookhaus for the launch of her memoir Possessions, a vivid and unflinching account of cultural erasure, institutional doublethink and the collapse of academia as witnessed from the inside.
Possessions A Memoir of Transformation in an Era of Precarity launch with Davina Quinlivan