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

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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Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery 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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Green Crime launch with Julie Shaw at Bookhaus
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When We Ruled with Paula Akpan at Bookhaus
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black with Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason at Bookhaus
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Reaping the Whirlwind: Britain's energy transition at Bookhaus
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The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late at Bookhaus
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Every Monument Will Fall with Dan Hicks at Bookhaus
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Damian Barr discusses his new novel The Two Roberts, which follows iconoclastic artists and lovers Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun from 1930s Glasgow School of Art to the revelry of wartime salons in Paris, Rome, and London. £6 includes a glass of wine or a soft drink and £2 off the book. The Two Roberts with Damian Barr at Bookhaus.

From Strange Fruit to the martyr musicians of the Arab Spring, Sound System hunts down the soundwaves that have set the world alight, and how commodification undermines the revolutionary potential of this music. Dave Randall will be in-person launching an updated edition of this vital slice of left-leaning cultural commentary, including a new chapter on global Gazan protest songs. Sound System launch with Dave Randall at Bookhaus.

Is your passion in life chilling? This one’s for you: Akshi Singh’s new book In Defence of Leisure revives psychoanalyst Marion Milner’s methods - painting, diary-keeping, intentional wandering - as a balm for modern burnout. Singh joins writer Marianne Brooker to discuss rest as resistance and play as practice. In Defence of Leisure launch with Akshi Singh at 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 Lives and the Law launch with Keio Yoshida