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:

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 …

Available (Published: December 2024)
ISBN: 9781915434241

£8.50

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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 …

Available (Published: December 2024)
ISBN: 9781915434258

£7.00

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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

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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

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Bunker: Stories and Poems from a Nuclear Age

edited by Daniel Cordle

Hidden away in a patch of wasteland in suburban Nottingham, a Cold War relic lies abandoned. This is Regional Seat of Government 3, a nuclea …

Available (Published: September 2024)
ISBN: 9781915434234

£10.00

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Willie Hopkin: D.H. Lawrence’s Socialist Friend

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Willie Hopkin (1862-1951) was a poet, philosopher, social reformer, local historian and humorist. He was a life-long friend and mentor of D. …

Available (Published: September 2024)
ISBN: 9781915434210

£10.00

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Forthcoming titles

Mutual Aid, Everyday Anarchy: Essays on Colin Ward

edited by Andrew Kelly

Colin Ward was known as the ‘gentle anarchist’. Through his immense work over many decades on towns and cities, transport, the theory and pr …

Forthcoming (Due: October 2024)
 ISBN: 9781915434227

£10.00

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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 2024)
 ISBN: 9781915434029

£8.00

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