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:

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

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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

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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

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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

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Keep All the Parts

by Roy Young

A well-known conservationist once remarked that the first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. The scale of our impact on …

Available (Published: March 2024)
ISBN: 9781915434135

£7.00

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Relief Map

by Jan Norton

Jan Norton’s debut pamphlet, Relief Map, traces her journey from a working-class Welsh Valleys childhood to where she finds herself on the m …

Available (Published: March 2024)
ISBN: 9781915434142

£7.00

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Forthcoming titles

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

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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 2023)
 ISBN: 9781915434029

£8.00

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