Five Leaves Bookshop
@fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social
Nottingham's city centre independent and radical bookshop, est. 2013 Publishing as Five Leaves since 1995 www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk, www.fiveleaves.co.uk We organise about a hundred events a year. Fast ordering service. Four book clubs.
Want to discuss poetry, face to face, in Nottingham? We recommend this group - www.nottinghamcitylibraries.co.uk/stanza-poetry/
Stanza Poetry | Nottingham City Libraries
Nottingham Stanza Poetry Group at Nottingham Central Library. Read and discuss contemporary poetry in a friendly monthly group. New members welcome.
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leftlion.co.uk/features/2026/08/putting-down-roots-the-story-of-the-windrush-generation-and-st-anns-allotments-explored-in-a-new-book/ Published by Five Leaves #Booksky #Nottingham
Putting down roots: the story of the Windrush Generation and St Ann's Allotments explored in a new book
Colin Haynes’ book, Caribbean Pioneer Gardeners, tells the story of men whose love for gardening gave them much more than callaloo and oxheart tomatoes. It shares the true story of a group of Windrush...
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Absolutely fab evening @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social with @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social on #AHDN - such a joy to read her unapologetically fan-driven analysis (she doesn't hold back from gushing about how handsome the band were) that nevertheless dives deep into the film's social context + influence 🥰
Happy Book Lovers Day! We stock a good collection of books in our shop, and not always about knitting. Some of our bestsellers relate to our radical history. Many thanks to Nottingham's independent bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social
Have we ever done an event on cricket before? There should be two this year, and here's the first - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/catching-the-light-cricket-poems-with-editors-tim-beard-and-nicholas-hogg/
Catching the Light, cricket poems with editors Tim Beard and Nicholas Hogg – Five Leaves Bookshop
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We are sorry to hear that David Young has died. He got in touch when he was very ill to let us know the situation. He gave us the last 25 copies of his pamphlet on Nottingham Castle. We'd sold 150 copies in the last year and told him that if we sold 150 of every book in the shop we'd buy the Castle
Karen Stevens and Jonathan Taylor (ed) Creative Writing and the Critical Commentary: Reflection, Influence, Process (Bloomsbury), under review by Julie Gardner on fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/reviews/
Here's our events listing going up to mid-September - tinyurl.com/3r7evh5f Note the Homer, Beatles and DH Lawrence city walk are all fully booked now! What have Homer, The Beatles and DH Lawrence have in common sounds like a pub quiz question.
Five Leaves Events in Late Summer
August and September events and book groups
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www.thetimes.com/travel/inspiration/nottingham-city-break-zqpmjwlxn - we missed this until a customer told us, we get an honourable mention in a whistlestop tour of our city by the travel journo Ben Aitken.
This Midlands city isn’t a hotspot. You should visit anyway
Lively pubs and cracking restaurants, a superb theatre and sporting greats — Nottingham’s line-up is impressive. As an expert in quirky UK destinations, I should know
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Lovely packed launch for this book from @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social yesterday afternoon. An important book documenting these Caribbean gardeners experiences in their own words. 🌱🌱
First stall of the day has just gone off for the Alliance Network (LGBT+ professionals) big breakfast and the next is ready for the afternoon and evening Big Queer Market. Happy Nottingham Pride Day to all. Catch us on the march, in the bookshop and at stalls.
Our latest newsletter, some events stuff, publishing news, an obituary for Tony Challis and a run down on what some staff members are reading: fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/newsletter-15-july-2026-news-and-book-reviews/
Newsletter: 15 July 2026 News and Book Reviews – Five Leaves Bookshop
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Well this is exciting. A delivery from @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social of a book about Lois Dodd, an artist I've only just recently read about. Her life and work look inspiring.
Have you seen the Big City Reads young adult fiction project from Nottingham City of Literature? Free books around and about, authors in schools, a big bash on Saturday at Central Library, and here's Nicola Garland and Becki Jayne Crossley with their titles in the bookshop today.
It's only rock and roll, but...
Samira Ahmed@samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · last mo.Tue Aug 11th 630pm Doing a unique Beatles event in Nottingham: I'll be doing an illustrated In Conversation with A Hard Day's Night film clips at the UK's finest indie bookshop, @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social Special value ticket if you buy book in advance.. fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/samir...
Today the American team at the Ultimate Frisbee Championship came in, and on Monday one of the Canadian team joined our Irish book group while he was here. We welcomed the frisbee folks, but they had to promise not to throw books across the room: www.ukultimate.com/wmucc #frisbee #booksky
@katrinanavickas.bsky.social battled through some train problems to get here!
Katrina Navickas@katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2mo agoThanks to the wonderful audience who packed @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social this evening for my book talk. Insightful questions and discussion. Thanks to Ross the owner and Julian from the Nottinghamshire and Derby Labour History Society for organising.
We have a new date for this event, in case you have the old one in the diary. Now 4 November. fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/this-aint-rocknroll/
This Ain’t Rock’n’Roll: pop music, the swastika and the Third Reich, with Daniel Rachel: note changed date – Five Leaves Bookshop
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An excellent review of Tony Challis's Rainbow Candles in London Grip. Pleased to see how many poetic references and homages were picked up by the reviewer. Thanks to them and the Grip. londongrip.co.uk/2026/06/london-grip-poetry-review-tony-challis/
London Grip Poetry Review – Tony Challis – londongrip.co.uk
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Did you see the John Dean exhibition of #Nottingham photos at the Bonington Gallery recently? Now available in three pamphlets. In the shop only as they have no barcodes or ISBNs. No text, pictures only from 1976.
Something we've wanted for a while. Working with Himmah Hub, we are planning more events with South Asian and Caribbean writers. This is our first joint event: fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/come-what-may-were-here-to-stay-the-story-of-south-asian-resistance-in-britain-with-taj-ali/ - October 15
These cheery chappies have just been discussing Lady C, the biography of a book - the book being by Guy Cuthbertson (in blue shirt), and Lady C being Lady Chatterley's Lover. Not in a blue shirt is John Pateman from the DH Lawrence Society. #booksky #DHLawrence
Last few... roll up roll up
Shelfish Thinking@shelfishthinking.bsky.social · 3mo agoA beautiful deep-dive on my sincere but tongue-in-cheek piece in which I wonder why the hell we spend so much time jumping thru hoops for work when we could simply be vibing 😎🐑 Head to @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social to get one of the last few copies! (Or try online 🤷♀️) #WritersofBlueSky #BookSky
Lovely launch @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social for 'Devils in the Details', essays around Lincolnshire Folk Tales by @rorywaterman.bsky.social with short readings by two great Lincolnshire poets, Rob Etty & Kathryn Daszkiewicz. Well worth it for the packed house who braved a thunderstorm to get there.
