Down the line, in November, but given the special nature of this event some folks might want to put it in their diary now - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/wonder-and-loss-writing-about-grief-with-sam-meekings/

Thanks to those who came to Adeeb Shaneen's book launch last night. There was a collection for Medical Aid for Palestinians, which raised £170. We'll make it up to a round figure of course. Thanks to all those who donated.

We'll be doing a bookstall at this event

We don't know who the special guest is yet!

NEW BLOG POST: Five Leaves Bookshop Accessibility Review - An accessibility review of @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social from my visit there for @rachelcdailey.bsky.social ‘Ramping Up Rights’ book event in July 2025. Check out the review below ⬇️ invinciblewomanonwheels.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/f...

Come to our talk @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social in Nottingham! 10 September, 7-8.30pm - book here: fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/100-y...

A quick video shout-out to @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social - truly a jewel in Nottingham's crown - and an invitation to #THIRST's launch party on 11 September. Sign up via fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/darre... to join the fun!

Nottingham you were wonderful last night, sold out event celebrating disability rights activism full of rage, solidarity and disabled joy. Bloody love that I get to do this for my job! @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @portyliterary.bsky.social @lozzagilbert.bsky.social @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social

This Thursday's event on disability rights is now fully booked, waiting list only fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/ramping-up-rights-disability-activism/

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.

Great night in Nottingham @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social for Will Rees' debut book.

We posted something previously about our worries that the clampdown on academic freedom in the USA would hit university presses, the major outlet for scholarly material on Israel-Palestine, so here we go - www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/22/harvard-educational-review-palestine-issue-cancelled

July 18th marks the start of South Asian Heritage Month. Our selected reading list: uk.bookshop.org/lists/south-...? All of these books can be bought in our store.

The value of proof reading several times. In our forthcoming book on Queer Nottingham, we've just caught describing the 1967 law change to allow gay men over 21 in England and Wales to have sex as long as it was in public. That would certainly have been an unusual law.

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

Our latest newsletter - concentrating on what we are reading ourselves - fiveleaves.bookshoployalty.co.uk/campaign/303...

Fishy - leftlion.co.uk/venues/five-leaves-bookshop/an-illustrated-talk-on-british-freshwater-and-marine-fish-with-jack-perks/

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/

Here's the Ham & High take on our latest publication, Curious Muswell Hill - tinyurl.com/4u8emuku

And the Trans Rights march (500?) looks like it's breaking up, with a lot of people wandering off to join the anti-fascist picket of UKIP and other far right people. Lots of police separating the far right from the others. All quiet otherwise!

Oh dear. Helping People is back around the Market Square. It's part of a Brazilian evangelical homophobic church. We got their illegal street collections banned a few years ago locally. It's the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. Wikipedia reveals all. Today they are just leafleting.

Best wishes to those celebrating the summer solstice. Anyone in town on this very hot day who needs an air conned shop, a stool and a glass of water... especially anyone on the anti-fascist demonstration, come in, cool down. It's calm in here. When we say "anyone", we don't mean the fascists.

Final 2 dates for the Spring tour next week… Tuesday 24 June in Nottingham @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social Thursday 26 June in Margate Fort Road Hotel Bar for Margate Bookshop

This Sunday's poetry event with Dandelions Poetry and Cathy Grindrod is now fully booked

I had my final writing class led by @giselleleeb.bsky.social at @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social in Nottingham last night, and I must say I learned so much and am excited to put it all into my writing going forward.

#IndieBookshopWeek cannot recommend @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social highly enough & remember to support indie publishers too.

What's the difference between folk horror and horror??

Badges from @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social in Nottingham

If this doesn't win some prize for its subtitle we will be very disappointed. The book is serious, and £22.99. Orders taken.

Monday's event on Queer Cinema has had to be cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control, sorry. Those who booked have been notified.

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

Queer Cinema at Five Leaves, 16th June #lgbt #booksky #cinema

Our latest book, launched down at the Bowls Club at Muswell Hill.

Some more pictures of our packed event yesterday at Boston Book Festival, with readings from Lincolnshire Folk Tales Reimagined (published recently by @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social) by Robert Etty, Alex Harvey and Alison Brackenbury. Thank you to all who joined us!

Our talk on the radical Jane Austen, or Jane Austen as a radical (can't recall the title), by Deirdre O'Byrne, in a few days is now fully booked. #booksky

Eid Mubarak to all our Muslim customers, friends and booktrade colleagues

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.

Any Muswell Hillbillies out there? Our initial stock has just arrived fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/curious-muswell-hill/

Always good to stumble upon a new indie #bookshop – and this one’s a gem. Found @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social tucked away in a quiet alley in the heart of #Nottingham. Fantastic selection of books and some really interesting #author events coming up too.

Sunday's event is now fully booked. Cake ordered. Pictures sorted. Author all right. All good to go - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/stonehenge-and-the-battle-of-the-beanfield-an-illustrated-talk-with-alan-lodge-tash/

Anyone near Worksop might be interested in this exhibition, particularly if you like Nottingham history and, um, cold war bunkers, the subject of one of our recently books: www.inspireculture.org.uk/whats-on/events/nuclear-bunker-a-creative-archive-exhibition/

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/

I should add that key to the success of novels in English by 村田沙耶香 are the translations of Ginny Tapley Takemori. Was lucky enough to see her and Sayaka Murata at a fascinating event in Nottingham's @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social when Convenience Store Woman came out & have a copy signed by them both.

Congratulations and thanks to Nottingham anti-fascists who faced off a gathering of far- right people this afternoon in the Market Square.