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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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 at Bookhaus.
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 launch with Mike Jay at Bookhaus.
Part of Independent Bookshop Week: Bookhaus and Bristol University Press invite you to an evening of radical common sense. The launch of a book that deep-dives into the concept of universal basic income: potentially a keystone policy as we advance into a late-capitalist hellscape. £6 secures your seat, a glass of wine or a soft drink, and £2 off the book.
Basic Income: The Policy That Changes Everything at Bookhaus.
John Foot’s remarkable new book 'The Red Brigades' deciphers the ghost-script myths surrounding the Italian left-wing terrorist organisation. Covering nearly two decades of operations – including the kidnapping and murder of Prime Minister Aldo Moro – Foot’s research excavates the brigatisti’s self-mythologising paranoia, tribunals, and kneecaps with scalpel precision.
The Red Brigades: The Terrorists who Brought Italy to its Knees launch with John Foot
With her debut book, Anastasiia Fedorova peels back layers of latex and leather to unveil a personal and cultural odyssey into fetish and kink - in all its liberating, transgressive and expressive glory. Catch them at Bookhaus with fellow literary deviant Polly Barton for an assuredly salacious and revealing conversation to celebrate the release.
Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink and Deviant Desire launch with Anastasiia Fedorova