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
Writing short stories, a six week course with Giselle Leeb
This six-week course covers the craft elements you need to write short stories in any genre and style. We will write throughout the course a...
Expiry
17/06/2025
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Fiction Book Group read Mouthing by Orla Mackey
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
18/06/2025
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Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line with Elizabeth Lovatt
Join Five Leaves in collaboration with Notts Queer History Archive, for an evening with author Elizabeth Lovatt and a host of local lesbians...
Expiry
19/06/2025
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Nottingham Poetry Festival Presents: Jamie Thrasivoulou- Feral + QnA
Jamie Thrasivoulou is an award-winning writer, poet, and educator. He’s also the lyricist in the band Kez. In 2019 he won the Saboteur award...
Expiry
20/06/2025
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Nottingham Poetry Fest Presents: Michael Pedersen – Muckle Flugga
Poetry ambassador for independent bookshop week, Michael Pedersen joins us. Cheers, duck. A prize-winning author, the Edinburgh Makar / Poe...
Expiry
21/06/2025
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Midsummer reading with Dandelions Poetry and Cathy Grindrod
Dandelions Poetry is back at Five Leaves for our special midsummer reading. We are very pleased to have Cathy Grindrod as our featured poet...
Expiry
22/06/2025
Event
Irish Book Group reads Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
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
23/06/2025
Event
Jen Calleja on translation.
Jen Calleja’s new non-fiction book is Fair: The Life-Art of Translation. Fair is a satirical, refreshing and brilliantly playful book abou...
Expiry
24/06/2025
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
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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
