When Michael Malay came to England at twenty-one, he was enchanted by the green and pleasant land he had read so much about. Befriending naturalists [...]

*Not Bad For a Fiver? Henry Normal, supported by Cathy Grindrod, whose most recent book was published by Five Leaves, plus refreshments included and ticket [...]

Join us for the launch of antechamber, an anthology of prose and poetry by postgraduate students of the University of Nottingham (2023). There will be [...]

Our last Book Group of the year... The book might take forty minutes to read (it's a neat, short hardback - a short story really) [...]

This event is fully booked - email bookshop@fiveleaves.co.uk if you would like to go on the cancellation waiting list. Nottingham, November 1977 – the year [...]

Charlie Baylis is from Nottingham, though currently living abroad. He is the Editor of Anthropocene and the Chief Editorial Advisor to Broken Sleep Books. His [...]

'A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life' Ian McEwan William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A [...]

Natalie Bayley, visiting from Australia, presents her new book Bone Rites, which features - are you ready? - Edinburgh, a female killer, an LGBT romance, trench [...]

A poetry reading by North American poets based in the UK, hosted by local poet Rich Goodson Kathryn Maris is a poet and critic. Her most recent collection [...]

Rennie Parker is a poet and arts worker living in the Midlands. She will largely be reading from her new Shoestring collection, her fifth book [...]