Five Leaves Ltd t/a Five Leaves Bookshop
14a Long Row, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG1 2DH
Accepts Gift Cards
Accepts Paper Vouchers
E-Gift Vouchers not accepted
Book clubs / reading groups
Web: Bookshop Description
Regional Winner, Independent Bookshop of the Year
British Book Awards 2018
We are Nottingham's only independent bookshop.
Five Leaves Bookshop stock is orientated towards independent presses, but we have a good representation of major publishing houses too. We like the reprint house Persephone, political publishers including Verso and Freedom, poetry publishers such as Carcanet and Bloodaxe, translation houses such as Pushkin Press, the landscape publisher Little Toller…
We have a large poetry section. Other sections in the shop include landscape/cityscape, music, general and translated fiction, Black Lives, politics, LGBT, feminism, social history, Jewish interest. Our children’s section is particularly strong on diversity.
Five Leaves is a member of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers and The Booksellers Association
Our webshop is www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/shop/shop
We normally run about 100 events a year, and still do but currently online only
Opening hours
Mon-Sat 10am-5.00pm, Sun 12noon-4pm
Specialisms
Children's
Greetings cards, radical tea towels and postcards,
What's on at Five Leaves Ltd t/a Five Leaves Bookshop
Event
Rebel Music, a sound-illustrated talk by Joe Mulhall
This sound-illustrated talk covers the stories and hidden histories about how music provided light in the darkest of times over the past ce...
Expiry
13/02/2025
Event
Book launch Lincolnshire Folk Tales
Five Leaves Publications and editors Anna Milon and Rory Waterman have pleasure in inviting you to the launch of Lincolnshire Folk Tales Rei...
Expiry
20/02/2025
Event
Michael Eaton, an illustrated talk on the film Chinatown
Michael Eaton situates Chinatown in relation to a history of fictional detectives, he traces Chinatown’s relationship to the pessimism of Am...
Expiry
26/02/2025
Event
February Book Group: Mammals, I Think We Are Called WITH Giselle Leeb
We’ll be discussing the short story collection Mammals, I Think We Are Called, and for the first 45 minutes this will be like our regular bo...
Expiry
27/02/2025
Event
Dr Tao Leigh Goffe, with Victoria Okoye, in conversation on Dark Laboratory, from Columbus to the Climate Crisis
A book and talk on Dark Laboratory, Tao Leigh Goffe on a historical journey to chart the forces that have shaped the Caribbean Island of Gua...
Expiry
03/03/2025
Event
Shoulder to Shoulder, with Jake Hall
Shoulder to Shoulder is a love letter to the LGBTQ+ pioneers of solidarity and coalition. Offering a new global look at our histories of sta...
Expiry
04/03/2025
Event
But – Life’s Not Like That, Is It?, with Boff Whalley
Boff Whalley is one of the founding members of the band Chumbawamba. In recent times he has written several touring plays for large-scale th...
Expiry
10/03/2025
Event
Louise Doughty plus support
Louise Doughty is the author of ten novels, most recently A Bird in Winter, published by Faber & Faber UK last year. This is a joint event ...
Expiry
12/03/2025
