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Zoulfa Katouh in conversation with AM Dassu

Join us to meet Zoulfa Katouh, one of our Big City Reads authors, award-winning and internationally bestselling author of the novel As Long as the [...]

Samira Ahmed on A Hard Day's Night, an illustrated cinema talk - FULLY BOOKED, WAITING LIST ONLY, SEE BELOW

Tuesday, 11th August, 2026    
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
This event is now fully booked, if you wish to join the waiting list for cancellations please email events@fiveleaves.co.uk. Four young men from Liverpool, via [...]

Non-fiction Book Group discusses: Judith Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender

Wednesday, 12th August, 2026    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£0.00
Our book group is open to all. Attend every meeting, occasionally or just once in your life. All we ask is that you read the [...]

Rulebreakers and Ghost Runners: The British women who asserted their right to run, with Katie Holmes

Wednesday, 19th August, 2026    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£5.00 - £20.00
The incredible untold stories of the British women who broke the rules and pioneered female running today Did you know that until April 1975 women [...]

The Postcolonial Flâneuse - Five Leaves New Poetry launch with Ramisha Rafique

Thursday, 20th August, 2026    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£0.00
Join us for the delayed launch of the fourteenth in Five Leaves’ series of debut poetry pamphlets by East Midlands writers. Her evocative collection shifts [...]

Fiction Book Group reads: Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Monday, 24th August, 2026    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£0.00
Our book group is open to all. Attend every meeting, occasionally or just once in your life. All we ask is that you read the [...]

Irish Group Discusses: The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine

Our book group is open to all- you do not have to be Irish to attend. Attend every meeting, occasionally or just once in your [...]

Special book group on The Ocean Would Paint Me Blue by Zoulfa Katouh

Our book groups are open to all. We have four groups, fiction, non-fiction, Pagan and Irish. This, however, is a one off group following this [...]

Writing Horror Course, a five week course with Megan Taylor

Thursday, 3rd September, 2026    
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
£100.00
In this 5 week supportive creative writing course, we will be exploring the classic tropes of horror fiction and sometimes overturning them. Using playful and [...]

D.H. Lawrence and the Gypsies, with John Pateman

D.H. Lawrence had a lifelong fascination and affinity with people who lived outside the bounds of 'civilised society'. He shared their sense of not belonging [...]
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