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.
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.
Just as the year winds down (we close at 4.00 today), a batch of 2027 calendar catalogues lands on the desk. I am not looking at these until at least August!
December 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Just as the year winds down (we close at 4.00 today), a batch of 2027 calendar catalogues lands on the desk. I am not looking at these until at least August!
December 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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My review of Tara Singh’s Fragments @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social
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“Fragments” Tara Singh (Five Leaves Publications) – book review
Tara Singh Fragments book cover Tara Singh’s innovative poems explore the aftermath of (unspecified) trauma and the power imbalances, prejudices and other societal structures that act to silence vi…
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December 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
My review of Tara Singh’s Fragments @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social
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fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/best-books-of-2025/, in our humble opinion
Best Books of 2025 – Five Leaves Bookshop
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December 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/best-books-of-2025/, in our humble opinion
Another of our former writers from the past has died. A full obituary appears here. Her book was The One That Got Away, a book of short stories set in Glasgow and South Africa. The book itself is long out of print. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/28/zoe-wicomb-obituary
Zoë Wicomb obituary
South African-Scottish author admired for her first book You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town, a collection of short stories
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Another of our former writers from the past has died. A full obituary appears here. Her book was The One That Got Away, a book of short stories set in Glasgow and South Africa. The book itself is long out of print. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/28/zoe-wicomb-obituary
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My review of Caroline Stancer's Full Body Reclaim @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social emmalee1.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/f...
“Full Body Reclaim” Caroline Stancer (Five Leaves Publications) – book review
Caroline Stancer Full Body Reclaim book cover “Full Body Reclaim” explores the reclamation of an abused body, without going into detail about the abuse itself (which isn’t necessary and is not for …
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December 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
My review of Caroline Stancer's Full Body Reclaim @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social emmalee1.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/f...
Our event with Jonathan Porritt next week is now fully booked, but we have a waiting list - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/love-anger-betrayal-with-jonathon-porritt/
Love, Anger & Betrayal, with Jonathon Porritt FULLY BOOKED – SEE BELOW FOR WAITING LIST – Five Leaves Bookshop
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December 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Our event with Jonathan Porritt next week is now fully booked, but we have a waiting list - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/love-anger-betrayal-with-jonathon-porritt/
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Great launch last night in Nottingham’s amazing @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social bookshop. Such a good crowd. Next week, Birmingham!
December 3, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Great launch last night in Nottingham’s amazing @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social bookshop. Such a good crowd. Next week, Birmingham!
November 27, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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My review of Tony Challis's "Rainbow Candles" @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social emmalee1.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/r...
“Rainbow Candles” Tony Challis (Five Leaves Publications) – book review
Tony Challis Rainbow Candles book cover Tony Challis writes on his experience as a gay man, looking bad and forward but it’s not his sole focus and he plays with form: villanelles, sonnets, list po…
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November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
My review of Tony Challis's "Rainbow Candles" @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social emmalee1.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/r...
What's on in December... apart from, you know.... fiveleaves.bookshoployalty.co.uk/campaign/334...
Bookstore Loyalty
Browse your favorite local bookstore's shelves
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November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
What's on in December... apart from, you know.... fiveleaves.bookshoployalty.co.uk/campaign/334...
Every year we buy a box of white poppies from the Peace Pledge Union and give all the proceeds from sales to Nottingham Refugee Forum.
This year we passed on around £220.
Thanks to everyone who donated.
This year we passed on around £220.
Thanks to everyone who donated.
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Every year we buy a box of white poppies from the Peace Pledge Union and give all the proceeds from sales to Nottingham Refugee Forum.
This year we passed on around £220.
Thanks to everyone who donated.
This year we passed on around £220.
Thanks to everyone who donated.
www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/nottinghams-hidden-underground-bbc-apocalypse-10655923?int_source=nba
Want to know more about Nottingham's nuclear bunker? We published a book about it - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/bunker-stories-and-poems-from-a-nuclear-age/
Want to know more about Nottingham's nuclear bunker? We published a book about it - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/bunker-stories-and-poems-from-a-nuclear-age/
Nottingham's BBC apocalypse studio for emergency broadcasts will be saved
The nuclear bunker is involved in plans to build 100 affordable homes, but it's been confirmed that the once top-secret studio will be preserved
www.nottinghampost.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/nottinghams-hidden-underground-bbc-apocalypse-10655923?int_source=nba
Want to know more about Nottingham's nuclear bunker? We published a book about it - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/bunker-stories-and-poems-from-a-nuclear-age/
Want to know more about Nottingham's nuclear bunker? We published a book about it - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/bunker-stories-and-poems-from-a-nuclear-age/
The Booker Prize winner.... back in stock tomorrow!
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/flesh/
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/flesh/
November 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The Booker Prize winner.... back in stock tomorrow!
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/flesh/
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/flesh/
We are pleased to say that @corinnefowler.bsky.social will now be chairing our forthcoming event with Dan Hicks on November 19th - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/dan-hicks/.
Only a few tickets left.
Only a few tickets left.
Every Monument Will Fall with Dan Hicks, in conversation with Corinne Fowler – Five Leaves Bookshop
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November 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
We are pleased to say that @corinnefowler.bsky.social will now be chairing our forthcoming event with Dan Hicks on November 19th - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/dan-hicks/.
Only a few tickets left.
Only a few tickets left.
Agoraphobia? One of our former workers is on BBC talking about this on 9th November - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002lzwr
BBC Radio 4 - Illuminated, The Little Box Which Contains the World
Emily Berry's exploration of agoraphobia.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Agoraphobia? One of our former workers is on BBC talking about this on 9th November - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002lzwr
Our fifth (?) posting on Bluesky today....
October 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Our fifth (?) posting on Bluesky today....
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/keio-yoshida/: November 5th
October 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/keio-yoshida/: November 5th
We're thinking about our many customers with relatives in Jamaica just now. Hope they are OK.
October 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We're thinking about our many customers with relatives in Jamaica just now. Hope they are OK.
Starting to programme January! Here's our Irish Book Group - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/five-leaves-irish-book-group-discusses-the-wren-the-wren-by-anne-enright/
October 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Starting to programme January! Here's our Irish Book Group - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/five-leaves-irish-book-group-discusses-the-wren-the-wren-by-anne-enright/
Staff Recommendations October 2025 – Five Leaves Bookshop
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October 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Book of the Day: Penguin has come up with the most bleedin' obvious Penguin book ever. Everything you always wanted to know about the world's favourite fish botherer. With nice endpapers.
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/the-penguin-book-of-penguins-an-experts-guide-to-the-worlds-most-beloved-bird/
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/the-penguin-book-of-penguins-an-experts-guide-to-the-worlds-most-beloved-bird/
October 23, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Book of the Day: Penguin has come up with the most bleedin' obvious Penguin book ever. Everything you always wanted to know about the world's favourite fish botherer. With nice endpapers.
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/the-penguin-book-of-penguins-an-experts-guide-to-the-worlds-most-beloved-bird/
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/the-penguin-book-of-penguins-an-experts-guide-to-the-worlds-most-beloved-bird/
Happy Diwali to customers and colleagues who celebrate
October 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Happy Diwali to customers and colleagues who celebrate
This week:
Sun - Deirdre O'Byrne on Edna O'Brien - fully booked, waiting list
Mon - Sara Ahmed on, well, complaining - fully booked, waiting list only
Tue - Janet Alder on racial justice and police brutality
Wed - Poets Robert Hamberger and Hongwei Bao
All on www.fiveleavesbokshop.co.uk/events
Sun - Deirdre O'Byrne on Edna O'Brien - fully booked, waiting list
Mon - Sara Ahmed on, well, complaining - fully booked, waiting list only
Tue - Janet Alder on racial justice and police brutality
Wed - Poets Robert Hamberger and Hongwei Bao
All on www.fiveleavesbokshop.co.uk/events
www.fiveleavesbokshop.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This week:
Sun - Deirdre O'Byrne on Edna O'Brien - fully booked, waiting list
Mon - Sara Ahmed on, well, complaining - fully booked, waiting list only
Tue - Janet Alder on racial justice and police brutality
Wed - Poets Robert Hamberger and Hongwei Bao
All on www.fiveleavesbokshop.co.uk/events
Sun - Deirdre O'Byrne on Edna O'Brien - fully booked, waiting list
Mon - Sara Ahmed on, well, complaining - fully booked, waiting list only
Tue - Janet Alder on racial justice and police brutality
Wed - Poets Robert Hamberger and Hongwei Bao
All on www.fiveleavesbokshop.co.uk/events