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

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


Event

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


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

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