Welcome To Five Leaves Publications

Five Leaves is a small publisher based in Nottingham, publishing 10-15 books a year. Our roots are radical and literary. These days our main areas of interest are social history, politics, poetry, Nottingham, London and cityscape.

You can browse our latest books below, choose a category to browse from the left-hand menu, or search for a specific book using the search box above.

All books can be bought through our secure site (with a PayPal account or a credit/debit card). Our books are also available from bookshops, and of course, all are available at our own bookshop in Nottingham. If in London, you will find most of our books in stock at Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, five minutes from Kings Cross.

You can also order from us by phone on 0115 837 3097.

Our latest titles:

The Shallow Grave

by Walter Gregory

After more than half a century, the Spanish Civil War continues to provoke debate and interest. Uniquely, thousands of volunteers travelled …

Available (Published: November 2020)
ISBN: 9781910170717

£10.00

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Time and Tide

edited by Catherine Clay

Time and Tide was a feminist weekly review of politics and the arts, founded in May 1920 by Welsh businesswoman and suffragette Margaret Hai …

Available (Published: November 2020)
ISBN: 9781910170779

£5.00

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Viking Leicestershire

by Roderick Dale

Viking Leicestershire describes the county as it was throughout the Viking Age, through the various stages of Scandinavian settlement. It us …

Available (Published: November 2020)
ISBN: 9781910170816

£8.99

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Winter at the Bookshop: Politics and Poverty, St Anns in the 1960s

by Sylvia Riley

Winter at the Bookshop was a raw, warm, cold experience. Raw with chapped fingers clutching kettles of boiling water from the gas-stove, mul …

Available (Published: December 2019)
ISBN: 9781910170663

£7.99

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Sneinton People

by Dave Ablitt

This is Sneinton, inner city Nottingham, in the 1980s – a selection of interviews that first appeared in Sneinton Magazine. The interviews r …

Available (Published: September 2019)
ISBN: 9781910170670

£5.00

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Unorthodox: LGBT+ Identity and Faith

edited by Sean Richardson

In modern Britain, what does it mean to be queer and religious? Unorthodox tells the stories of LGBT+ people of faith throughout the country …

Available (Published: September 2019)
ISBN: 9781910170601

£7.99

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Forthcoming titles

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (Yiddish/English edition)

by Helen Oxenbury, Michael Rosen

We’re delighted to present this bilingual Yiddish/English edition of Michael Rosen’s classic picture book. For brave hunters and bear-lovers …

Forthcoming (Due: December 2020)
 ISBN: 9781910170823

£14.99

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Isaac and I: A Life in Poetry

by Chris Searle

Isaac and I is the autobiography of Chris Searle, who braces his own story with the life of his greatest influence, East London poet Isaac R …

Forthcoming (Due: May 2021)
 ISBN: 9781910170809

£11.99

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St Ann’s, The End of an Era

by Peter Richardson

In the late 1960s an area of Nottingham known as St Ann’s was set for demolition. This involved the wholesale clearance of houses, shops, pu …

Forthcoming (Due: November 2020)
 ISBN: 9781910170793

£35.00

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St Ann’s, The End of an Era

by Peter Richardson

In the late 1960s an area of Nottingham known as St Ann’s was set for demolition. This involved the wholesale clearance of houses, shops, pu …

Forthcoming (Due: November 2020)
 ISBN: 9781910170786

£25.00

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A Princess Comes to Our Town

by Rose Fyleman

Princess Finestra doesn’t want to marry the boring prince her mother and father, the Fairy King and Queen, have chosen for her. She wants to …

Forthcoming (Due: February 2021)
 ISBN: 9781910170519

£9.99

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Curious Golders Green

by Alan Dein

At the dawn of the twentieth century, Golders Green was not much more than a crossroads surrounded by fields. Then the Northern Line arrived …

Forthcoming (Due: November 2021)
 ISBN: 9781910170311

£9.95

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