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:
Byron Speaks Up for the Luddites
by Lord ByronThis pamphlet includes the full text of Lord Byron’s maiden speech in the House of Lords, alongside his Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill …
Available (Published: December 2018)ISBN: 9781910170595
£4.00
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Curious King’s Cross
by Andrew WhiteheadSex, pubs and rock’n’roll – King’s Cross has it all, and so much more … from a fish-and-chip shop once bugged by MI5 to London’s most endu …
Available (Published: November 2018)ISBN: 9781910170564
£9.95
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Minnie Lansbury: Suffragette, Socialist, Rebel Councillor
by Janine BoothThis is a story of a remarkable young woman who became a popular champion and whose tragically early death broke the hearts of her family, f …
Available (Published: November 2018)ISBN: 9781910170557
£12.99
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Benefits
by Zoe FairbairnsIt is summer… a heat wave… tense, uneasy days in the city. There are ominous signs of political turbulence in the dying years of the twe …
Available (Published: June 2018)ISBN: 9781910170571
£9.99
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A Brief History of Whistling
by Allan Chatburn, John LucasWhistling has been used for work, entertainment, self-expression and communication, including secret communication. The authors were inspire …
Available (Published: March 2018)ISBN: 9781907869990
£7.99
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Destroying the Baby in Themselves – Why the two boys killed James Bulger
by David JacksonThat blurred, foggy frame of the security video has become engraved on the public conscience. We can never know the whole truth of what foll …
Available (Published: February 2018)ISBN: 9781910170533
£6.00
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Sneinton People
by Dave AblittThis is Sneinton, Nottingham, in the 1960s – a selection of interviews that first appeared in Sneinton Magazine. The interviews reflect some …
Forthcoming (Due: July 2019)ISBN: 9781910170670
£4.00
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Winter at the Bookshop: Politics and Poverty, St Anns in the 1960s
by Sylvia RileyWinter 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 2019)ISBN: 9781910170663
£8.99
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The War Baby
by Alexander BaronThe War Baby is a compelling account of bravery and betrayal in the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. Amid the last, faltering, steps to repul …
Forthcoming (Due: June 2019)ISBN: 9781910170649
£9.99
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With Hope, Farewell
by Alexander BaronWith Hope, Farewell was Alexander Baron’s first novel to explore Jewish working class life in fiction, and predated his The Lowlife, being p …
Forthcoming (Due: June 2019)ISBN: 9781910170656
£9.99
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Reds, Rebels and Radicals
by David BellThe men and women featured in this book are an eclectic bunch. We have a mutineer; a couple of suffragettes, one of them framed for conspira …
Forthcoming (Due: June 2019)ISBN: 9781910170632
£9.99
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Welcome to the Cheap Seats: Silver Screen Portrayals of the British Working Class
by Andrew GravesA fascinating trip around the side streets and back to backs of working class cinema, exploring the British New Wave kitchen sink dramas of …
Forthcoming (Due: July 2019)ISBN: 9781910170625
£9.99
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So We Live: The Novels of Alexander Baron
edited by Andrew Whitehead, Ken Worpole, Susie ThomasThe novelist Alexander Baron (1917-1999) was born into a working class Jewish home in Hackney, joined the Communist Party as a young man, sa …
Forthcoming (Due: June 2019)ISBN: 9781910170618
£12.99
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Unorthodox: LGBT+ Identity and Faith
edited by Sean RichardsonIn modern Britain, what does it mean to be queer and religious? Unorthodox tells the stories of LGBT+ people of faith throughout the country …
Forthcoming (Due: October 2019)ISBN: 9781910170601
£9.99
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A Princess Comes to Our Town
by Rose FylemanPrincess 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: June 2019)ISBN: 9781910170519
£9.99
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Curious Golders Green
by Alan DeinAt 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 2019)ISBN: 9781910170311
£9.95
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