Five Leaves Bookshop

18/06/2026

Here's the programme for the forthcoming DH Lawrence Festival, which includes a couple of events with our fingerprints on them - the launch of "DH Lawrence and the Gypsies" and a DH Lawrence Nottingham guided walk:

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18/06/2026

13/06/2026

Today is the start of Independent Bookshops' Week. If you are one of the first 100 customers you will get a £5.00 downloadable Book Token to use next time you visit us or any other indie bookshop.

And if events is your thing:
Monday How Q***r Bookshops Changed the World (it was fully booked but we have had a couple of cancellations) with AJ West
Tuesday Poetry from Horace - the Roman poet - in translation and with new related poetry from Aidan Everett
Thursday Former leader of the Green Party, Natalie Bennett joins us to compost the ideas of dead white men (and of some not white or dead) compared to modern Green thinking

Details of events are on fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events

And this week we bring out our book on Caribbean Pioneer Gardeners of St Anns, in time for Windrush celebrations

Tomorrow is the last day of Nottingham Poetry Festival and it will soon be Lowdham Book Festival. It's all go, innit?

We are in an alleyway opposite the Tourist Information Centre, one minute from the Market square, just before "The Works" and "Primark"

11/06/2026

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.

11/06/2026

10/06/2026

Looking for your next great read — and great company?

This autumn, a free community reading group* is launching in Nottingham, exploring stories of family, identity, belonging, and mobility — books that stay with you long after the last page. Open to all. No literary background needed — just a love of good stories.

Please see the attached flyer and sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfHPzyLHmytEuM1SY23nXBJnS5ge1j6baWWJi2R3xHMN394DQ/viewform?usp=dialog

* This group is part of a research project at the University of Nottingham exploring how novels shape readers’ emotional experiences. Participation is voluntary, and all participants will be asked to complete an informed consent process to protect their privacy and rights throughout.

👋 Hi, I'm Shuyue (Jocelyn) Liu, a PhD researcher in American Literature at the University of Nottingham. My path has taken me from a small city in China to Beijing, and then to the UK — a journey that shaped my interest in how movement and migration form who we are. 📖 This reading group is p...

09/06/2026

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