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
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
Event
Queer Nottingham 1960-1990 book launch, with CJ DeBarra and others
You are invited to relive the past… with a slide show, a DJ set from Mike Atkinson, an exhibition, display of old periodicals, contributions...
Expiry
18/09/2025
Event
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
Event
Before Gender: an evening in conversation with Eli Erlick
Discover the trailblazing lives of thirty trans people who will radically change everything you’ve been told about transgender history. Eli...
Expiry
07/10/2025
Event
Adventures in poetry, with Andrew Taylor and Cliff Yates
A series in which four Nottingham-based poets read with a specially invited guest of their own choosing. Funded by the Nottingham Poetry Soc...
Expiry
08/10/2025
Event
A translation event with Agnes Lidbeck and Nichola Smalley
In our irregular series of events in and about translation, we have pleasure in bringing the Swedish writer Agnes Lidbeck and her translator...
Expiry
09/10/2025
Event
A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen, with Kate Evans
In the later years of her life, Jane Austen created a quilt. Acclaimed graphic novelist Kate Evans takes the fabrics of this patchwork cover...
Expiry
14/10/2025
Event
Surrender and other work, with Cathy Grindrod in Mickleover Library, Derby
Five Leaves author and Derbyshire’s first Poet Laureate talks about her life and experiences through memoir and poetry. https://fiveleavesb...
Expiry
18/10/2025
Event
The Ireland of Edna O’Brien with Deirdre O’Byrne
Deirdre O’Byrne lectured on Irish literature and has published articles on Edna O’Brien and other Irish writers. She co-runs Nottingham Iris...
Expiry
19/10/2025
Event
Sara Ahmed – ‘Behind many disasters are unheard complaints’
A moving exploration of the solace and power of listening in an unjust world, from the author of The Feminist Killjoy Handbook‘ launched by ...
Expiry
20/10/2025
Event
Janet Alder on racial justice, police brutality and her 25+ year long fight
Join Janet for an evening in conversation with author Dan Glazer on her tireless fight for truth, justice and to hold UK’s state institution...
Expiry
21/10/2025
Event
Nude Against a Rock, and other poems by Robert Hamberger
We welcome back Robert Hamberger, an old friend of Five Leaves (which published some of his earlier work) for a reading from his latest coll...
Expiry
22/10/2025
Event
Five Leaves Irish Fiction Group discusses Reading In The Dark by Seamus Deane
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
27/10/2025
