Newsletter: 4 Jan 2026

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Happy New Year, everyone!

Please note we will be closed tomorrow, Monday 5th January, as we do our annual stock take and staff meeting. From Tuesday, we will be back to our usual hours of 10am to 5:30pm Mondays through Saturdays and noon to 4pm on Sundays.

We’re off to a fairly calm start to the new year with just one event this month on 21st January, on climate change, which we hope many of you will make it out for. Our books groups – there are four of them now – are in full swing, and you can find the list of the dates and books at the bottom of this newsletter. Before that though, we thought you’d like to have a look at our top 20 best sellers for 2025.

Best wishes for 2026 from,
The Five Leaves Booksellers

Five leaves top twenty best sellers of 2025
____________		1. Lincolnshire Folk Tales Reimagined ed, Rory Waterman and Anna Milon (Five Leaves)
		2. Queer Nottingham 1960-1990 by CJ DeBarra (Five Leaves)
		3. The House of Wolf by Tony Robinson (Little, Brown)
		4. Curious Muswell Hill by Andrew Whitehead (Five Leaves)
		5. Curious Crouch End by Andrew Whitehead (Five Leaves)
		6. The Invisible Doctrine: the secret world of neo-liberalism by George Monbiot (Penguin)
		7. My Story of Nottingham Castle by David Young (self published)
		8. Friends of Dorothy by Sandi Toksvig (Little, Brown)
		9. The Golden Road: how ancient India transformed the world by William Dalrymple (Bloomsbury)
		10. Let the Light Pour In by Lemn Sissay (Canongate)
	_____	11. Meadows Nottingham by Graham Woodward (self published) 12. The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden (Penguin) 13. Butter by Asoko Yuzuki 14. John Clare: the trespasser by John Goodridge and R. Thornton (Five Leaves) 15. Curious Camden Town by Martin Plaut and Andrew Whitehead (Five Leaves) 16. Fragments by Tara Singh (Five Leaves) 17. New Nottingham Journal volume one, ed. by Andrew Thacker (Agamemnon) 18. Some Japanese Ghosts by Lafcadio Hearn(Penguin) 19. Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal, my adventures in neuro diversity by Robin Ince (Macmillan) 20. Muslims Don’t Matter by Sayeeda Warsi (Bridge Street Press)

Upcoming Book Groups
		Fiction Book Group
_______________		Thursday, 29th January 7PM, Gliff by Ali Smith  Thursday, 26th February 7PM, Set My Heart to Five by Simon Stephenson
		Non-Fiction Book Group
		Tuesday, 10th February, 7PM, The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon  Tuesday, 12th May, 7PM, Abolition, Vol. 1 by Angela Y. Davis
		Irish Book Group
		Monday, 26th January 7PM, The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright  Tuesday, 24th February 7PM, The Land of Spices by Kate O’Brien
		Witchcraft & Paganism Book Club
		Tuesday, 20th January 7PM, Smoke Hole by Martin Shaw  Tuesday, 17th March 7PM, Magic Maker by Pam Grossman
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