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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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 launch with Roger Hallam at Bookhaus.
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.
From Bristol to Palestine: Poems of Protest and Solidarity at Bookhaus.
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
Journalist Paul Holden is in the 'Haus, launching his brisk tour through post-Corbyn Labour’s internal plumbing. Drawing on leaked party documents, it tracks Keir Starmer’s ascent, the shadowy influence of adviser Morgan McSweeney, and allegations of manipulation, broken pledges, and mystery money.
The Fraud launch with Paul Holden and Andrew Feinstein
Is radical self-reflection the antidote to algorithmic blandness? Bookhaus hosts memoirists Lily Dunn and Alice Jolly in a discussion on life writing in the age of AI slop, exploring its morality, volatility, and above all, its transformative power.
The ethical conundrum of memoir in the age of AI