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:

Kindling

by Julie Burke

Kindling takes the embers of unreliable memory and sparks stories from them. Light-heartedly playing with images and form, many of these poe …

Available (Published: September 2024)
ISBN: 9781915434197

£7.00

Click here for full info...

Remembering

by Julie Gardner

Remembering includes poems based on the few facts Julie Gardner knows about the early life of her mother, who died suddenly at the age of fo …

Available (Published: September 2024)
ISBN: 9781915434203

£7.00

Click here for full info...

New Uses for a Wand

by Fiona Theokritoff

It is a fundamental law in our universe that energy cannot be destroyed, it can only be transformed. This principle lies at the heart of Fio …

Available (Published: June 2024)
ISBN: 9781915434166

£7.00

Click here for full info...

You Worry Too Much

by Nathan Fidler

Collecting poems with a sense of anxiety or an underlying itch – sometimes with a drop of wry humour – You Worry Too Much is the debut pamph …

Available (Published: June 2024)
ISBN: 9781915434173

£7.00

Click here for full info...

Rosehill: Portraits from a Midlands City, and other stories

by Carol Lake

Forty years after Rosehill won the Guardian fiction award Carol Lake wrote a set of new stories to accompany the original set. These linked …

Available (Published: March 2024)
ISBN: 9781915434036

£12.00

Click here for full info...

One Woman’s War: Essays Written in War, for Peace

by Dana Mills

On October 7th 2023 the lives of all Israelis and all Palestinians changed forever. Hamas killed over 1200 Israelis and others, then Israel …

Available (Published: March 2024)
ISBN: 9781915434159

£10.00

Click here for full info...

Forthcoming titles

Full Body Reclaim

by Caroline Stancer

At its heart, Full Body Reclaim is about living fully. There are poems about recovery after trauma and abuse, about gendered power relations …

Forthcoming (Due: December 2024)
ISBN: 9781915434258

£7.00

Click here for full info...

Just Breathe

by Trish Kerrison

Just Breathe is Trish Kerrison’s first full collection. The poems examine the act of breathing from the viewpoint of a mother whose two elde …

Forthcoming (Due: December 2024)
ISBN: 9781915434241

£8.50

Click here for full info...

Winter at the Bookshop: Politics and Poverty, St Ann’s 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 …

Forthcoming (Due: November 2023)
ISBN: 9781915434043

£9.99

Click here for full info...

Anarchism: People and Ideas

by Colin Ward

The word ‘anarchism’ tends to conjure up images of aggressive protest against government, and – recently – of angry demon­strations against …

Forthcoming (Due: November 2024)
ISBN: 9781915434029

£8.00

Click here for full info...