Bookhaus

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.

What's On At Bookhaus

Pride and Prejudices Queer s and the Law at Bookhaus
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lgbtq+ workshops & classes talks spoken word
Logging Off launch with Adele Zeynep Walton at Bookhaus
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Fascist Yoga launch with Stewart Home at Bookhaus
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Human Rites launch with Juno Dawson at Bookhaus
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No Lost Causes Club launch with Lauren McQuistin at Bookhaus
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In Defence of Leisure launch with Akshi Singh at Bookhaus
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Gold Rush paperback launch with Olivia Petter at Bookhaus
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Hope Without Hope: Rojava and Revolutionary Commitment at Bookhaus
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Sound System launch with Dave Randall at Bookhaus
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The Two Roberts with Damian Barr at Bookhaus
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Positive Tipping Points: How to Fix the Climate Crisis at Bookhaus
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Indignity: A Life Reimagined launch with Lea Ypi at Bookhaus
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Could Should Might Don’t: How We Think About the Future at Bookhaus
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Joy Is My Middle Name with Sasha Debevec-McKenney at Bookhaus
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Poyums annaw launch with Len Pennie at Bookhaus
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When We Ruled with Paula Akpan at Bookhaus
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Every Monument Will Fall with Dan Hicks at Bookhaus
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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 s and the Law at Bookhaus.

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

Sell out warning! This is the utopian worldbuilding we all so desperately need! Rob Hopkins brings his unflappable environmental optimism to a series of profound and plausible future visions, nudging us playfully towards more hopeful human horizons. How to Fall in Love with the Future is kryptonite for the cultural doom-monger within, and it might just change your world. How to Fall in Love with the Future launch with Rob Hopkins

Mike Jay joins Bookhaus and neuropsychologist Andy Mitchell to discuss 'Free Radicals': a drift through the gaslit haze of the late 18th century, where Bristol’s Pneumatic Institute became a lab of dreams. His account revives the origins of modern drug culture and the fevered minds of the Romantic poets and scientists who inhaled nitrous oxide in pursuit of higher consciousness. Free Radicals How a Group of Romantic Experimenters Gave Birth to Psychedelic Science with Mike Jay