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

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

Five Leaves Irish Book Group discusses Mouthing, by Orla Mackay

Well, our fiction book group discussed this Irish book, now it is the turn of the Irish book group! Refreshments provided. All you have to ...

Expiry

28/07/2025


Event

Ramping Up Rights, an unfinished history of British disability rights activism, with Rachel Charlton-Dailey

An event for Disability Pride Month From the ‘crippled suffragette’, to ’80s punks chaining themselves to buses, to campaigners taking a st...

Expiry

31/07/2025


Event

Boater: a life on England’s Waterways, with Jo Bell

For over twenty years, Jo Bell, archaeologist and poet, has travelled the waterways of England (and sometimes Wales) meeting extraordinary p...

Expiry

06/08/2025


Event

Non-Fiction Book Group reads ‘Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?’ by Claire Dederer

Our book group is open to all. Attend every meeting, occasionally or just once in your life. This quarter we’re going to be discussing one...

Expiry

07/08/2025


Event

An illustrated talk on British freshwater and marine fish, by Jack Perks

Jack Perks is the an underwater photographer and the author of several books on fish, including his new Field Guide to British Fish. This i...

Expiry

11/08/2025


Event

The Magic of Birds, with Charlie Bingham

Charlie Bingham trained as an archaeologist but got side-tracked by birds in her mid -twenties. She is an events manager for nature-based ch...

Expiry

20/08/2025


Event

Fiction Book Group reads Parable of the Sower 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

27/08/2025


Event

Darren Simpson book launch, Thirst

Darren Simpson and Five Leaves Bookshop have pleasure in inviting you to the book launch of Thirst. Darren will be in conversation about hi...

Expiry

11/09/2025

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