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:
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 …
Available (Published: September 2019)ISBN: 9781910170625
£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 …
Available (Published: July 2019)ISBN: 9781910170632
£7.99
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Homes and Places: A History of Nottingham’s Council Houses – 2nd edition
by Chris MatthewsCouncil housing in Nottingham is an essential part of the city’s history and identity. The slums of the nineteenth century laid the foundati …
Available (Published: June 2019)ISBN: 9780993409332
£9.99
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Rosie Hogarth
by Alexander BaronIn the spring of 1949, Jack Agass belatedly returns from the war to the working class street in Islington where he grew up. A proud, support …
Available (Published: June 2019)ISBN: 9781910170694
£9.99
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King Dido
by Alexander Baron1911, East London. The police collaborate with racketeers to keep an uneasy peace, periodically broken by vicious street wars. Dido Peach co …
Available (Published: June 2019)ISBN: 9781910170687
£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 …
Available (Published: June 2019)ISBN: 9781910170618
£12.99
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Sneinton People
by Dave AblittThis is Sneinton, inner city Nottingham, in the 1980s – a selection of interviews that first appeared in Sneinton Magazine. The interviews r …
Forthcoming (Due: September 2019)ISBN: 9781910170670
£5.00
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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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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
£7.99
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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: November 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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