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.
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/
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
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/
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/
No genteel neighbourhood should be without an anarchist prince.
The book itself - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/curious-muswell-hill/
The book itself - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/curious-muswell-hill/
October 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
No genteel neighbourhood should be without an anarchist prince.
The book itself - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/curious-muswell-hill/
The book itself - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/curious-muswell-hill/
We'll be doing a bookstall at this event
August 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
We'll be doing a bookstall at this event
We don't know who the special guest is yet!
August 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We don't know who the special guest is yet!
Over at Swindon Story Shed, a new member of staff discovers the real reason we booksellers buy these boxes, not to put behind face out books but something a lot more useful.
July 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Over at Swindon Story Shed, a new member of staff discovers the real reason we booksellers buy these boxes, not to put behind face out books but something a lot more useful.
Trains and boats and planes. Except no trains for planes.
July 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Trains and boats and planes. Except no trains for planes.
We are just about there - the first volume of Queer Nottingham, covering 1960-1990 comes out this month. Find out more here - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/queer-nottingham-1960-1990/. You can also order the book in advance.
Volume two, covering the next three decades is in progress.
#booksky
Volume two, covering the next three decades is in progress.
#booksky
July 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
We are just about there - the first volume of Queer Nottingham, covering 1960-1990 comes out this month. Find out more here - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/queer-nottingham-1960-1990/. You can also order the book in advance.
Volume two, covering the next three decades is in progress.
#booksky
Volume two, covering the next three decades is in progress.
#booksky
Our next bookshop event
July 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Our next bookshop event
Our fiction group discussed Mouthing by Orla Mackey last month, and in July our Irish book group is discussing the same book. We should have had them on the same night...
But here we are: July 28 - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/five-leaves-irish-book-group-discusses-mouthing-by-orla-mackay/
But here we are: July 28 - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/five-leaves-irish-book-group-discusses-mouthing-by-orla-mackay/
June 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Our fiction group discussed Mouthing by Orla Mackey last month, and in July our Irish book group is discussing the same book. We should have had them on the same night...
But here we are: July 28 - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/five-leaves-irish-book-group-discusses-mouthing-by-orla-mackay/
But here we are: July 28 - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/five-leaves-irish-book-group-discusses-mouthing-by-orla-mackay/
If this doesn't win some prize for its subtitle we will be very disappointed. The book is serious, and £22.99. Orders taken.
June 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
If this doesn't win some prize for its subtitle we will be very disappointed. The book is serious, and £22.99. Orders taken.
Book of the Day - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/the-glassmaker-2/, by @tracychevalier.bsky.social. 500 years, the same set of characters, ageing slowly, but modern to the age of each of the sections of the book. From medieval plague to Covid and steps in between. Not a Doctor Who or a time slip
June 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Book of the Day - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/the-glassmaker-2/, by @tracychevalier.bsky.social. 500 years, the same set of characters, ageing slowly, but modern to the age of each of the sections of the book. From medieval plague to Covid and steps in between. Not a Doctor Who or a time slip
June 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Our latest book, launched down at the Bowls Club at Muswell Hill.
June 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Our latest book, launched down at the Bowls Club at Muswell Hill.
And our first event in August - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/boater-a-life-on-englands-waterways-with-jo-bell/
For those who are interested in messing about on boats. Or living on them. Jo Bell is an old friend of Five Leaves, and a poet.
For those who are interested in messing about on boats. Or living on them. Jo Bell is an old friend of Five Leaves, and a poet.
June 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
And our first event in August - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/boater-a-life-on-englands-waterways-with-jo-bell/
For those who are interested in messing about on boats. Or living on them. Jo Bell is an old friend of Five Leaves, and a poet.
For those who are interested in messing about on boats. Or living on them. Jo Bell is an old friend of Five Leaves, and a poet.
Any Muswell Hillbillies out there? Our initial stock has just arrived
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/curious-muswell-hill/
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/curious-muswell-hill/
June 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Any Muswell Hillbillies out there? Our initial stock has just arrived
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/curious-muswell-hill/
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/curious-muswell-hill/
Another of our July events is now live. Though this poster has vertigo and can't look at the cover other than fleetingly!
@coachhousebooks.bsky.social
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/hypochondria-with-will-rees-why-do-we-believe-we-are-sick/
@coachhousebooks.bsky.social
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/hypochondria-with-will-rees-why-do-we-believe-we-are-sick/
May 27, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Another of our July events is now live. Though this poster has vertigo and can't look at the cover other than fleetingly!
@coachhousebooks.bsky.social
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/hypochondria-with-will-rees-why-do-we-believe-we-are-sick/
@coachhousebooks.bsky.social
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/hypochondria-with-will-rees-why-do-we-believe-we-are-sick/
Book of the Day (Author of the Day, since she is here) : The Life Affirming Magic of Birds by @charliebingham.bsky.social, complete with a swift on the cover. Signed copies now in stock. Charlie works her way round the country and birdlife, from gulls to curlews. She will be speaking here this year.
May 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Book of the Day (Author of the Day, since she is here) : The Life Affirming Magic of Birds by @charliebingham.bsky.social, complete with a swift on the cover. Signed copies now in stock. Charlie works her way round the country and birdlife, from gulls to curlews. She will be speaking here this year.
And the winner is.... winner of the International Booker Prize, that is, Heart Lamp by the Indian writer Banu Mushtaq. Congratulations to Banu and the Sheffield publisher @andotherstories.bsky.social.
Copies in stock at fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/heart-lamp-selected-stories/
Copies in stock at fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/heart-lamp-selected-stories/
May 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
And the winner is.... winner of the International Booker Prize, that is, Heart Lamp by the Indian writer Banu Mushtaq. Congratulations to Banu and the Sheffield publisher @andotherstories.bsky.social.
Copies in stock at fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/heart-lamp-selected-stories/
Copies in stock at fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/heart-lamp-selected-stories/
Short notice event for June 1st - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/remembering-the-battle-of-the-beanfield-an-illustrated-talk-with-alan-lodge-tash/
The day the Government attacked the free festivals movement
The day the Government attacked the free festivals movement
May 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Short notice event for June 1st - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/remembering-the-battle-of-the-beanfield-an-illustrated-talk-with-alan-lodge-tash/
The day the Government attacked the free festivals movement
The day the Government attacked the free festivals movement