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
Wonder and Loss, writing about grief with Sam Meekings
This event will be of interest to writers who might want to write about grief for a public audience or simply a personal or family audience,...
Expiry
11/11/2025
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Non-fiction Book Club reads: Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
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
11/11/2025
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Adventures in poetry with Rona Cran and Martin Stannard
A series in which four Nottingham-based poets read with a specially invited guest of their own choosing. Funded by the Nottingham Poetry Soc...
Expiry
12/11/2025
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Nottingham Pagan Book Club reads ‘The Dead of Winter’ by Sarah Clegg
Five Leaves hosts the Nottingham Pagan Book Club, a reading group for those interested in Pagan literature, both modern and classical. The g...
Expiry
18/11/2025
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Every Monument Will Fall with Dan Hicks
Refusing to choose between pulling down every statue or living in a past that we can never change, Every Monument makes the case for allowin...
Expiry
19/11/2025
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Nottinghamshire history, with Julia Hickey (and tea and cake)
In this illustrated talk Julia Hickey will talk about the things you know about our County, things you had forgotten and things you didn’t k...
Expiry
23/11/2025
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Five Leaves Fiction Book Group reads The Plague by Albert Camus
For November we’re going to be discussing The Plague (La Peste), the 1947 absurdist novel by Albert Camus. The plot centres around the Frenc...
Expiry
24/11/2025
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Five Leaves Irish Book Group discusses Foster, by Claire Keegan
This is a novella, that packs a punch and there’s a lot to discuss. You might have seen the film of the book, The Quiet Girl. Free, refresh...
Expiry
25/11/2025
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“Dylan Thomas: The Writer Behind the Myth”, a talk by John Goodby
John Goodby is Professor of Arts and Culture at Sheffield Hallam University. He is the leading authority on the work of Dylan Thomas and is ...
Expiry
26/11/2025
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British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700, with John Goodridge and Adam Bridgen
John Goodridge and Adam Bridgen will introduce and discuss their pioneering new book of essays, British Working-Class and Radical Writing S...
Expiry
02/12/2025
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Five Leaves New Poetry launch with Sue Forrester, Elizabeth Dunford and Ramisha Rafique
We’re launching the latest three in the Five Leaves New Poetry series of pamphlets at Nottingham Central Library – come and join us! Doors ...
Expiry
05/12/2025
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Love, Anger & Betrayal, with Jonathon Porritt
Jonathan Porritt has been campaigning for environmental and social justice, while simultaneously advising governments, businesses and NGOs, ...
Expiry
09/12/2025
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Fiction Book Group reads Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
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
18/12/2025
Event
Dandelions holiday special, with Gregory Woods and open mic
Dandelions Poetry is very pleased to be back at Five Leaves for our special event between Christmas and New Year. We’re also very pleased to...
Expiry
29/12/2025
