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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Romanian master of style Mircea Cărtărescu discusses the new English translation of his 1996 cult novel Blinding – part of an ongoing effort to bring his visionary catalogue to light. Giant butterflies convulse beneath ice, conspiracies whisper from crystal halls, and bodies swell into music in an ecstatic study of adolescence, obsession, and imagination itself.
Blinding: The Left Wing launch with Mircea Cărtărescu at Bookhaus.
Dan Hicks' new work tears through the polished facades of museums and monuments to expose a grimy world of colonial loot, skull collections, and academic gatekeeping. Alongside ancient historian Mai Musié, he discusses how we frame – and how we can reframe – our material culture and heritage.
Every Monument Will Fall with Dan Hicks at Bookhaus.
Leah Gordon and Stephen Ellcock’s visual project digs into England’s vanishing commons – once 50% of the land, now barely 3%. Through Gordon’s photography, art, and folk traditions, they trace centuries of enclosure and fierce resistance, from Levellers to rave protesters to modern land rights movements.
Common People launch with Leah Gordon
Sell out warning! Andreas Malm and Wim Carton untangle the fictions of techno-fix climate schemes: carbon-sucking machines, sun-blocking geoengineering, and endless capitalist sleights of hand. Their new book asks us to confront the planet’s fevered state without hiding behind gadgets, serving as a political, social, and moral reckoning before the next tipping point.
The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late launch with Wim Carton and Andreas Malm
Dominic Hinde and Marianna Dudley join Bookhaus to discuss their new works on energy and climate. Hinde’s Drifting North blends memoir, travel, and history to explore Scotland’s role in fossil capitalism and the search for a sustainable future, while Dudley’s Electric Wind traces Britain’s relationship to eolic energy, and how nature, politics, and technology shape society.
Reaping the Whirlwind: Britain's energy transition with Dominic Hinde and Marianna Dudley