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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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.
Sell out warning! Calling all historical drama nerds: actor Jason Salkey brings you an intimate peek behind the scenes at the infamously misfortune-riddled filming of beloved BBC series 'Sharpe' in early 90s Crimea. He’s at Bookhaus in discussion with fellow chosen man (and original Sharpe!) Paul McGann. Now that’s soldiering!
From Crimea with Love with Jason Salkey at Bookhaus.
Researcher and author Dave O’Brien joins Bookhaus and Rising Arts Agency to discuss newly revised work ‘Culture Is Bad For You’: a sobering analysis of the deep-rooted inequalities shaping the creative industries, and how race, gender and class dictate access to culture’s creation and consumption. Essential.
Culture is bad for you Inequality in the cultural and creative industries launch with Dave O'Brien
As TikTok is flooded by floral-clad female subservience influencers and figures like Andrew Tate threaten to brainwash a generation of boys with their hyper-macho grift, the fight against online misogyny grows more urgent than ever. Authors Cécile Simmons (‘CTRL HATE DELETE’) and Lois Shearing (‘Pink Pilled’) join Bristol academic Finn Mackay for a deep dive into digital patriarchy, far-right radicalisation, and the feminist fightback.
The Cyber War on Women with Lois Shearing and Cécile Simmons
Not motherhood, but radical motherdom! Author and researcher Alex Bollen is in-Haus to discuss her powerful debut book, an exhaustively researched takedown of the bogus science and media misrepresentations behind insidious mothering mythologies.
Motherdom: Breaking Free from Bad Science and Good Mother Myths launch with Alex Bollen