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
Scattered pages from a Palestinian-Ukranian’s memoirs, with Adeeb Shaheen
You are invited to celebrate the publication of Adeeb Shaheen’s memoir It Is War! Adeeb lives in Nottingham with his family and is twice a...
Expiry
21/08/2025
Event
Five Leaves Irish Book Group discusses The Heather Blazing by Colm Tóibín
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
26/08/2025
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
100 Years of The Well of Loneliness, with Jana Funke and Hannah Roche
Join Jana Funke and Hannah Roche, editors of the new Oxford World’s Classics edition of Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness, for a no-ho...
Expiry
10/09/2025
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
Event
Poetry with Matthew Paul, Kathy Pimlott and Peter Sansom
Refreshments included. https://fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/poetry-with-matthew-paul-kathy-pimlott-and-peter-sansom/
Expiry
16/09/2025
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
17/09/2025
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Jenn Ashworth, in conversation with Jon McGregor about care, grief and walking
Jenn Ashworth emerged from lockdown with a compulsive need to walk – and to walk away. Armed with little more than the knowledge imparted by...
Expiry
22/09/2025
Event
By popular demand, another Jake Thackray evening, with Paul Thompson
Mixing colourful readings from Jake’s unsung writing with talking about his life and performing some of his songs. Paul Thompson, co-author...
Expiry
23/09/2025
Event
Nottingham Pagan Book Club reads ‘Introduction to Spiritual Ecology’ by Marian Green
Five Leaves hosts the Nottingham Pagan Book Club, a reading group for those interested in Pagan literature, both modern and classical. The g...
Expiry
24/09/2025
Event
Five Leaves Irish Book Group discusses The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien
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
25/09/2025
Event
Lost Boys: How Education is Failing Young Working Class Men, with author Alex Blower
Since the mid-2000s, consistent commentary from politicians and media outlets in the UK have presented low educational attainment and low as...
Expiry
30/09/2025
