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
One Woman Walks Europe, with Ursula Martin
Ursula’s Nottingham pitstop will take the form of our traditional illustrated lecture, though perhaps a little less formal than some, where ...
Expiry
07/07/2025
Event
Basic Income: The Policy That Changes Everything, talk and Q&A with Kate Pickett
Celebrating the launch of the new Policy Press book Basic Income: The Policy That Changes Everything by Matthew Johnson, Kate Pickett, Danie...
Expiry
16/07/2025
Event
Transfemme Futures, with Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift
Join us for a reading event with Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift, discussing their book Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transf...
Expiry
17/07/2025
Event
Five Leaves open fiction book group discusses Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Our book groups are open to all. Attend every meeting, occasionally or just once in your life. All we ask is that you read the book in advan...
Expiry
21/07/2025
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Nottingham Pagan Book Club reads Cunning Folk by Tabitha Stanmore
Five Leaves hosts the Nottingham Pagan Book Club, a reading group for those interested in Pagan literature, both modern and classical. The g...
Expiry
22/07/2025
Event
Hypochondria, with Will Rees – why do we believe we are sick?
A free-wheeling philosophical essay, Hypochondria combines incisive contemporary cultural critique, colourful literary history, and the auth...
Expiry
23/07/2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
