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
Local parking - pay & display
Book clubs / reading groups
Web: Bookshop Description
National Winner, Independent Bookshop of the Year British Book Awards 2018 Regional Winner 2019 & 2021 Winner of a Nottingham Rainbow Heritage Award 2019 Winner of a Nottingham Windrush Award 2022 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 Fitzcarraldo Editions, political publishers including Verso and Pluto, poetry publishers such as Carcanet, translation houses such as Pushkin Press, the landscape publisher Little Toller then there's Faber, Granta... 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, Middle East/Palestine. 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 and our publishing side is at www.fiveleaves.co.uk We normally run about 75 events a year, sometimes more. These range from traditional author-book-audience events through to day events like Writing While Muslim and Reading Proud and community events with guest authors and panels from community groups. We run four book clubs - fiction, non-fiction, Pagan and Irish
Opening hours
Mon-Sat 10am-5.00pm, Sun 12noon-4pm
Specialisms
Children's
Greetings cards, radical tea towels, postcards, badges
What's on at Five Leaves Ltd t/a Five Leaves Bookshop
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
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D’Unbelievable Irish Comedy of Jon Kenny (1957-2024)
Jon Kenny rose to fame in the early 1990s in Ireland as co-creator of D’Unbelievables, with his comedic partner Pat Shortt. They went on to ...
Expiry
16/03/2025
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Mother Animal, with Helen Jukes
Mother Animal combines personal memoir with fresh insights from evolutionary biology, zoology and toxicology to reach through to questions t...
Expiry
18/03/2025
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An evening with Xiaolu Guo, in conversation with Jon McGregor
Xiaolu Guo is a Chinese-born author, screenwriter and film maker. She studied at Beijing Film Academy, and later at the National Film and Te...
Expiry
21/03/2025
Event
Irish Book Club: Discussing A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ni Ghriofa
Our books group are open to all. Attend every meeting, occasionally or just once in your life. All we ask is that you read the book in advan...
Expiry
24/03/2025
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Nottingham Pagan Book Club reads The Modern Craft
Five Leaves hosts the Nottingham Pagan Book Club, a reading group for those interested in Pagan literature, both modern and classical. The g...
Expiry
25/03/2025
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Five Leaves fiction book group discusses Kairos, by Jenny Erpenbeck
Our book group is open to all. Attend every meeting, occasionally or just once in your life. All we ask is that you read the book in advance...
Expiry
26/03/2025
Event
Secular Muslim Feminism: in conversation with Dr Hind Elhinnawy
Join us for an evening with Dr Hind Elhinnawy to discuss her new book: Secular Muslim Feminism: An Alternative Voice in the War of Ideas. D...
Expiry
02/04/2025
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Pink Pilled: women and the far right with author Lois Shearing
In Pink-pilled, journalist Lois Shearing interviews leading experts and infiltrates communities of ‘tradwives’ and ‘femtrolls’ to provide a ...
Expiry
03/04/2025
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The Russian Detective- an illustrated talk with Carol Adlam
Join us for an evening with illustrator, writer and researcher Carol Adlam as she takes us into the magical world of Charlie Fox and talks t...
Expiry
08/04/2025
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John Harvey and Rob Etty, a Shoestring Press poetry reading.
https://fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/john-harvey-and-rob-etty-a-shoestring-press-reading/
Expiry
09/04/2025
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Adventures in poetry: Andrew Duncan and Rod Mengham
The second in a series of four Adventures in Poetry events during 2025, with four Nottingham-based poets reading with a specially invited gu...
Expiry
30/04/2025
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The Melancholy Humour of C P Cavafy, a lecture by Gregory Woods
The Nottingham Poetry Society David Holliday Annual Lecture 2025 "The Melancholy Humour of Constantine Cavafy by Gregory Woods" https://fi...
Expiry
07/05/2025
Event
Non-fiction Book Club reads ‘Undiscovered’ by Gabriela Wiener
Our book group is open to all. Attend every meeting, occasionally or just once in your life. All we ask is that you read the book in advance...
Expiry
29/05/2025
