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
Storytelling in the film The Quiet Girl / An Cailín Ciúin with Deirdre O’Byrne
In this illustrated presentation, Deirdre O’Byrne will discuss the 2022 film An Cailín Ciúin /The Quiet Girl. Although based on the English ...
Expiry
05/03/2026
Event
Ethnology: a love song for Connemara, poetry from Cathy Galvin, supported by Laurie Cusack
Ethnology draws on the mystical cry for the dead of Cathy Galvin‘s Irish-speaking ancestors. Within an epic narrative she reclaims place, pe...
Expiry
09/03/2026
Event
The All for Ireland League: A lesson from history, with Patrick Murphy
Dr Patrick Murphy, from the Nottingham Irish Studies Group, is the author of The All for Ireland League: Conflict, Conciliation and the Bans...
Expiry
11/03/2026
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White Moss with Translator Irina Sadovina
Part of our season of translation. Join us for an evening discussing art, indigenous writing, translation, community and trust. Anna Nerka...
Expiry
12/03/2026
Event
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade – Hannah Durkin in conversation with David Murray
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade – Hannah Durkin in conversation with David Murray. Hannah Durk...
Expiry
16/03/2026
Event
Irish Book Group Discusses: Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times
Our book group is open to all- you do not have to be Irish to attend. Attend every meeting, occasionally or just once in your life. All we ...
Expiry
23/03/2026
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Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains with John Grindrod
A twentieth century history of LGBTQ+ lives in suburbia. https://fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/tales-of-the-suburbs-lgbtq-lives-behind-ne...
Expiry
31/03/2026
Event
Wild Cities, with Chris Fitch
Christ Fitch was formerly senior staff writer at Geographical, the magazine of the Royal Geographical Society, he has reported from around t...
Expiry
07/04/2026
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Imperfect Bodies with Ali Isaac
In this powerful literary memoir, Ali shares her journey as a mother of a girl with a rare genetic disease. Exploring social and political d...
Expiry
08/04/2026
Event
Blake Morrison on Memoir
ON MEMOIR is a freewheeling exploration of narrative non-fiction, from AI to Ethics to Politics to Sex, there is something for every reader ...
Expiry
22/04/2026
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Things We Found in the Ground - Metal Detecting with RomanFound
Join us for an evening discussion with cousins and metal detecting duo Eleanor Bruce and Lucilla Gray, better known as RomanFound, as they t...
Expiry
23/04/2026
Event
This Is a Message to Persons Unknown: the story of the Poison Girls, with Rich Cross and Sue Cooper (Bella Donna)
Flesh and blood are what we are, flesh and blood are who we are, our cover is blown … This Is a Message to Persons Unknown is the first ful...
Expiry
27/04/2026
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Irish Book Group Discusses: Reading Turgenev by William Trevor
Our book group is open to all - you do not have to be Irish to attend. Attend every meeting, occasionally or just once in your life. All we...
Expiry
28/04/2026
Event
Fiction Book Group reads: The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
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
29/04/2026
