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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workshops & classes
talks
spoken word
— Bookhaus
workshops & classes
talks
spoken word
— Bookhaus
workshops & classes
talks
spoken word
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Damian Barr discusses his new novel The Two Roberts, which follows iconoclastic artists and lovers Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun from 1930s Glasgow School of Art to the revelry of wartime salons in Paris, Rome, and London. £6 includes a glass of wine or a soft drink and £2 off the book.
The Two Roberts with Damian Barr at Bookhaus.
Is your passion in life chilling? This one’s for you: Akshi Singh’s new book In Defence of Leisure revives psychoanalyst Marion Milner’s methods - painting, diary-keeping, intentional wandering - as a balm for modern burnout. Singh joins writer Marianne Brooker to discuss rest as resistance and play as practice.
In Defence of Leisure launch with Akshi Singh at Bookhaus.
Stewart Home upturns the namaste, love and light to uncover the dark underbelly of Western yoga. Rife with conspirituality, faux-progressive wellness and far-right grifters, the cult author comes to Bookhaus to give us the scoop on his damning exposé Fascist Yoga.
Fascist Yoga launch with Stewart Home at Bookhaus.
At a time when LGBTQI+ rights and lives are targeted across the world, Keio Yoshida’s new book is more pertinent than ever. The acclaimed human rights lawyer will be in conversation with local dramaturgic icon Tom Marshmann to discuss the past, present and future of queer existence in the face of law and discrimination.
Pride and Prejudices Queer Lives and the Law launch with Keio Yoshida
Two authors confront the politics of death and disease in a double book launch. Oliver Basciano’s Outcast traces leprosy’s history of exile and resilience across continents; Molly Conisbee’s No Ordinary Deaths is a social history of mortality told through the overlooked rituals, labour, and grief of ordinary lives.
The Way of All Flesh with Oliver Basciano and Molly Conisbee