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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

The Hour of the Wolf Launch with Fatima Bhutto at Bookhaus
The Hour of the Wolf Launch with Fatima Bhutto
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As If launch with Isabel Waidner at Bookhaus
As If launch with Isabel Waidner
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workshops & classes talks
Tell Me How You Eat: Food, Power and the Will to launch at Bookhaus
Tell Me How You Eat: Food, Power and the Will to launch
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workshops & classes talks
Class Lines and Red Rhymes: Bring Down the Haus at Bookhaus
Class Lines and Red Rhymes: Bring Down the Haus
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workshops & classes talks poetry spoken word
Wonder and Loss: A Practical Memoir for Writing about Grief at Bookhaus
Wonder and Loss: A Practical Memoir for Writing about Grief
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workshops & classes talks
The Othered Woman: How White Feminism Harms Muslim Women at Bookhaus
The Othered Woman: How White Feminism Harms Muslim Women
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workshops & classes talks
Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun at Bookhaus
Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun
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workshops & classes talks
Bring Down the Haus: The Last Lighthouse in Rising Seas at Bookhaus
Bring Down the Haus: The Last Lighthouse in Rising Seas
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workshops & classes talks poetry
The Savage Landscape launch with Cal Flyn at Bookhaus
The Savage Landscape launch with Cal Flyn
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workshops & classes talks

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Celebrate the launch of From Bristol to Palestine, a new poetry collection composed of local voices responding to ongoing injustice and suffering. With live readings from contributors and editors, all proceeds from tickets and book sales will be donated to charities providing vital support to people in Gaza. Poetic voices of resistance from Bristol

Decolonisation without platitudes: lecturer and researcher Davina Quinlivan joins Bookhaus for the launch of her memoir Possessions, a vivid and unflinching account of cultural erasure, institutional doublethink and the collapse of academia as witnessed from the inside. Possessions A Memoir of Transformation in an Era of Precarity launch with Davina Quinlivan

Journalist Paul Holden is in the 'Haus, launching his brisk tour through post-Corbyn Labour’s internal plumbing. Drawing on leaked party documents, it tracks Keir Starmer’s ascent, the shadowy influence of adviser Morgan McSweeney, and allegations of manipulation, broken pledges, and mystery money. The Fraud launch with Paul Holden and Andrew Feinstein

Is radical self-reflection the antidote to algorithmic blandness? Bookhaus hosts memoirists Lily Dunn and Alice Jolly in a discussion on life writing in the age of AI slop, exploring its morality, volatility, and above all, its transformative power. The ethical conundrum of memoir in the age of AI

Gather round the strangest bride in Bristol for a discussion of river rights and a swim in the currents of language. Two years after her headline-grabbing union, activist Meg Avon returns home bearing My Avon, a poetic testament to confluence and the unruly ecologies of devotion. Poetry from debut collection My Avon, and campaign updates on UK river rights