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-5.30pm, 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
Smitten, with Dr Tom Bellamy
Smitten is a much-needed exploration of the psychology of infatuation, how to recognize it, and how to move beyond it towards a healthier ex...
Expiry
23/04/2025
Event
Five Leaves open book group discusses Persuasion, by Jane Austen
Our book groups 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
29/04/2025
Event
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
Event
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
Irish Book Group: Are You Somebody by Nuala Ó Faoláin
The Irish Book Group is open to everyone wishing to discuss the book in question. You don’t have to be Irish! Our book groups are open to a...
Expiry
12/05/2025
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
Event
Writing short stories, a six week course with Giselle Leeb
This six-week course covers the craft elements you need to write short stories in any genre and style. We will write throughout the course a...
Expiry
17/06/2025
