Our recent recommendations for 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 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