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Non-Fiction Book Group: Empire of Normality: neurodiversity and capitalism by Robert Chapman

'A vital book that kindles the flames of a Marxist neurodivergent revolution.' -  Beatrice Adler-Bolton, co-author of Health Communism Our book group is open to [...]

Wendy Cope - poetry reading, with Julie Gardner and Sarah Smith

Tuesday, 12th November, 2024    
6:15 pm - 8:15 pm
£0.00 - £20.00
A Nottingham Creative Writing Hub at Nottingham Trent University event, in collaboration with Five Leaves When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was published in 1986, [...]

Khaled Alesmael- Selamlik

An emotional and unflinching story about Arab masculinity and homoeroticism Following a sold out a launch event at Gay’s the Word, we're excited to host [...]

Poetry from Martin Figura and Helen Ivory

Tuesday, 19th November, 2024    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£4.00 - £5.00
A reading from East Anglia's best in a welcome return to Nottingham for two of this country's best dressed poets... The poets will read from [...]

Rachel Cooke on women's friendship, through fiction, diaries and letters

Wednesday, 20th November, 2024    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£4.00 - £18.00
Friendship has never been more debated, something that has to do both with the internet - the perils of WhatsApp groups, the agony of ghosting [...]

Jonathan Taylor and James Scudamore on bullying

Monday, 25th November, 2024    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£3.00 - £4.00
Jonathan Taylor and James Scudamore will talk and read from their own non-fiction and fiction on this subject, then interview each other Jonathan Taylor on [...]

Nottingham Pagan Book Club: Ashes and Stones by Allyson Shaw

Tuesday, 26th November, 2024    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£0.00
Five Leaves hosts the Nottingham Pagan Book Club, a reading group for those interested in Pagan literature, both modern and classical. The group is open [...]

Poetry from Hasib Hourani

Wednesday, 27th November, 2024    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£4.00
We are pleased to welcome the Lebanese-Palestinian poet Hasib Hourani to read from his debut collection of poetry, a set of  poetic sequences concerned with [...]

Just Breathe and Full Body Reclaim, with Trish Kerrison and Caroline Stancer

  In the run-up to Christmas, we will be launching Trish Kerrison's first full collection, Just Breathe, alongside Full Body Reclaim by Caroline Stancer, which [...]

Mother Animal, with Helen Jukes

Tuesday, 18th March, 2025    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£4.00 - £16.99
When Helen Jukes fell pregnant, she does what anyone else would do, searched for information to help make sense of the changes underway inside her. [...]
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