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
Wendy Cope – poetry reading, with Julie Gardner and Sarah Smith
A Nottingham Creative Writing Hub at Nottingham Trent University event, in collaboration with Five Leaves. Support readers from NTU – Julie...
Expiry
12/11/2024
Event
Khaled Alesmael - Selamlik
An emotional and unflinching story about Arab masculinity and homoeroticism. Following a sold out a launch event at Gay’s the Word, we’re e...
Expiry
14/11/2024
Event
Poetry from Martin Figura and Helen Ivory
A welcome return to Nottingham for two of this country’s best dressed poets… The poets will read from their new collections; Martin’s being...
Expiry
19/11/2024
Event
Rachel Cooke on women’s friendship, through fiction, diaries and letters
Rachel Cooke is the editor of the Virago Book for Friendship (£18.99) which explores this territory in novels and poems, diaries and letters...
Expiry
20/11/2024
Event
Jonathan Taylor and James Scudamore on bullying
Jonathan Taylor and James Scudamore will talk and read from their own non-fiction and fiction on this subject, then interview each other. T...
Expiry
25/11/2024
Event
Nottingham Pagan Book Club: Ashes and Stones by Allyson Shaw
Five Leaves hosts the Nottingham Pagan Book Club, a reading group for those interested in Pagan literature, both modern and classical. Ash...
Expiry
26/11/2024
Event
Poetry from Hasib Hourani.
We are pleased to welcome the Lebanese-Palestinian poet Hasib Hourani to read from his debut collection of poetry, a set of poetic sequence...
Expiry
27/11/2024
Event
Just Breathe and Full Body Reclaim, with Trish Kerrison and Caroline Stancer
In the run-up to Christmas, we will be launching Trish Kerrison’s first full collection, Just Breathe, alongside Full Body Reclaim by Caroli...
Expiry
03/12/2024
Event
Your Right to Protest: Activism Panel with Christian Weaver and Leah Cowan
Join Christian, Leah, and a host of Nottingham activists for a panel discussion on organising, your protesting rights, and the future of act...
Expiry
10/12/2024
Event
Deb Robinson on Witchcraft
Deb, author of The Witch-ionary, will be in conversation with Kate Templar from Five Leaves, who set up our Pagan book group. This event wi...
Expiry
12/12/2024
Event
Five Leaves Open Book Group discusses Orbital by Samantha Harvey
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
16/12/2024
Event
Dandelions at the bookshop
Dandelions Poetry is back at Five Leaves for our special reading between Christmas and New Year. Come and join us for a dose of poetry at t...
Expiry
30/12/2024
