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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · 9d

Our latest newsletter, with some pics of recent events and a piece on our friend and colleague John Lucas - fiveleaves.bookshoployalty.co.uk/campaign/322...

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Dr Rosie Miles @rosiemilespoet.bsky.social · 11d

I lived in Nottingham for a few years in the 1990s. Yesterday I went back for the first time in decades. Enjoyed calling in @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social, Nottingham’s indie radical bookshop. Many moons ago it was Mushroom Bookshop. Here’s to @rossbradshaw.bsky.social for keeping such places going.

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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · Aug 23

Down the line, in November, but given the special nature of this event some folks might want to put it in their diary now - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/wonder-and-loss-writing-about-grief-with-sam-meekings/

Wonder and Loss, writing about grief with Sam Meekings – Five Leaves Bookshop

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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thanks to those who came to Adeeb Shaneen's book launch last night. There was a collection for Medical Aid for Palestinians, which raised £170. We'll make it up to a round figure of course. Thanks to all those who donated.

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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · Aug 21

We'll be doing a bookstall at this event

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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · Aug 16

We don't know who the special guest is yet!

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invinciblewheel.bsky.social @invinciblewheel.bsky.social · Aug 11

NEW BLOG POST: Five Leaves Bookshop Accessibility Review - An accessibility review of @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social from my visit there for @rachelcdailey.bsky.social ‘Ramping Up Rights’ book event in July 2025. Check out the review below ⬇️ invinciblewomanonwheels.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/f...

Five Leaves Bookshop Accessibility Review

Back with another accessibility review! This time for Five Leaves Bookshop in Nottingham from my visit there for Rachel Charlton-Dailey’s ‘Ramping Up Rights’ book event in July 2025. (D…

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wellofloneliness.bsky.social @wellofloneliness.bsky.social · Aug 2

Come to our talk @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social in Nottingham! 10 September, 7-8.30pm - book here: fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/100-y...

100 Years of The Well of Loneliness, with Jana Funke and Hannah Roche – Five Leaves Bookshop

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Darren Simpson @darrensimpson44.bsky.social · Aug 2

A quick video shout-out to @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social - truly a jewel in Nottingham's crown - and an invitation to #THIRST's launch party on 11 September. Sign up via fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/darre... to join the fun!

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Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social · Aug 1

Nottingham you were wonderful last night, sold out event celebrating disability rights activism full of rage, solidarity and disabled joy. Bloody love that I get to do this for my job!
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a stack of my book ramping up rights which is green with a disability pride flag on the front and the subtitle an unfinished history of british disability activism in yellow then my name in white. just behind my book and to the side is a selection of other disabled books

three people sat down smiling and holding up copies of ramping up rights. Lozza, a white person with hair wearing a cheky shirt and smart casual grey jorts sat in a wheelchair. me, Rachel, a white woman with collar bone length ginger hair wearing a long green floral dress and big glasses with a pink crystal chain sat on a chair and maisie a white woman with long blonde hair kept off her face with a black hairband wearing a black dress and cardigan in a wheelchair

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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · Jul 29

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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · Jul 29

This Thursday's event on disability rights is now fully booked, waiting list only fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/ramping-up-rights-disability-activism/

Ramping Up Rights, an unfinished history of British disability rights activism, with Rachel Charlton-Dailey FULLY BOOKED, SEE BELOW – Five Leaves Bookshop

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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · Jul 25

Over at Swindon Story Shed, a new member of staff discovers the real reason we booksellers buy these boxes, not to put behind face out books but something a lot more useful.

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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · Jul 25

Trains and boats and planes. Except no trains for planes.

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Lee Wright @wrightlee.bsky.social · Jul 24

Great night in Nottingham @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social for Will Rees' debut book.

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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · Jul 22

We posted something previously about our worries that the clampdown on academic freedom in the USA would hit university presses, the major outlet for scholarly material on Israel-Palestine, so here we go - www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/22/harvard-educational-review-palestine-issue-cancelled

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication

As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · Jul 18

July 18th marks the start of South Asian Heritage Month.
Our selected reading list:
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All of these books can be bought in our store.

South Asian Heritage Month

South Asian Heritage Month runs between July 18th and August 17th, and is a month to celebrate the cultural history of people of a South Asian heritage! Read more below.

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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · Jul 9

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Staff Recommendations July 2025 – Five Leaves Bookshop

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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · Jul 8

The value of proof reading several times. In our forthcoming book on Queer Nottingham, we've just caught describing the 1967 law change to allow gay men over 21 in England and Wales to have sex as long as it was in public. That would certainly have been an unusual law.

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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · Jul 7

We are just about there - the first volume of Queer Nottingham, covering 1960-1990 comes out this month. Find out more here - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/queer-nottingham-1960-1990/. You can also order the book in advance.
Volume two, covering the next three decades is in progress.
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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · Jul 3

Our latest newsletter - concentrating on what we are reading ourselves - fiveleaves.bookshoployalty.co.uk/campaign/303...

Bookstore Loyalty

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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · Jul 3

Fishy - leftlion.co.uk/venues/five-leaves-bookshop/an-illustrated-talk-on-british-freshwater-and-marine-fish-with-jack-perks/

An Illustrated Talk On British Freshwater and Marine Fish, With Jack Perks - Leftlion - Nottingham Culture

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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · Jul 1

Our next bookshop event

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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · Jun 28

Our fiction group discussed Mouthing by Orla Mackey last month, and in July our Irish book group is discussing the same book. We should have had them on the same night...
But here we are: July 28 - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/five-leaves-irish-book-group-discusses-mouthing-by-orla-mackay/

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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · Jun 27

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Staff Recommendations June 2025 – Five Leaves Bookshop

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