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/
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.
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 · 4w agoTue 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 · last mo.Thanks 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 · 2mo 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.
If you are coming to the bookshop this afternoon, there's a celebration in the Market Square of Notts County being promoted (congratulations, by the way!). If you can find a way of avoiding the Square from, say, 3-4 - unless you are joining in - you might find it easier to get here!
From last night's excellent talk by @jtwelsch.bsky.social at @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social on his new book. Part memoir, part literary history, The Poetry of Suicide explores how we can talk about suicide outside clinical discourse and stats. (Photo courtesy Chrissie Van Mierlo) #booktalk #poetry
This article comprises an interview by Andy Barrett about books, the environment, bookselling, Nottingham campaigns and the links between them all. It's not short This interview is the last of 24 undertaken by Andy and he admitted he was running out of people to ask... tinyurl.com/ys8csd5a
Ross Bradshaw - Five Leaves Bookshop — Green Meadows Knowledge Bank
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Mattzki@mattzki.bsky.social · 3mo agoI read this extract yesterday, before heading into Nottingham in the afternoon. Passing @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social ‘I wonder if they’ve got any in yet?’ And lo and behold they did! Already got stuck in. If you’re into folklore, how it develops, and the mysteries of the East, then it’s a cracker.
I read this extract yesterday, before heading into Nottingham in the afternoon. Passing @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social ‘I wonder if they’ve got any in yet?’ And lo and behold they did! Already got stuck in. If you’re into folklore, how it develops, and the mysteries of the East, then it’s a cracker.
Rory Waterman@rorywaterman.bsky.social · 3mo agoI've just posted a third short extract from my new book, Devils in the Details. This little section concerns opium, hilariously bad stories, and barrel-scraping. rorywaterman.substack.com/p/a-nugget-o...
I'm giving an author talk in #Nottingham at @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social on 21st April - come and say hi! fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/a-sci...
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