Hydra Books

General information

As well as selling some of the best coffee and snacks in the city, we stock ‘radical‘ literature on a wide range of issues; politics, history, feminism, animal rights, environmentalism that it may be difficult to track down in the usual high-street bookshops (if you can find one!) The bookshop provides an outlet for independent non commercial publishers and authors to make their books and ideas accessible to the wider community. Run by local people as a volunteer workers co-operative, the shop grew out of Bristol Radical History group and similar networks across the city. It is a space for exchanging ideas and finding those books.

"Bristol's best bookshop for political debate, community networking and coffee. Hydra fulfils the long tradition of a bookshop as a place to share, discuss and challenge ideas." - Woolf Magazine.