Five Leaves Publications

04/10/2025

✹Fr⚘gm∞nts⊗ sits at the intersections of race, queerness, gender and trauma, exploring mis/re/membering through the splintering lens of comp …

13/09/2025

A great line-up of events in the Inspire Arts and Culture Poetry Festival, including Imtiaz Dharker, Beyond the Spectrum: Poetry for Neurodivergent People and Romalyn Ante.

We're delighted that our Pamphleteers Tara Singh and Tony Challis will be reading from their new Five Leaves Publications pamphlets at Beeston Library on Mon 29th September at 7:30pm. Tickets available in person or online.

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02/09/2025

The horse was published by our stable

14/08/2025

31/07/2025

This is the origin of the name Five Leaves Publications, later Five Leaves Bookshop. Ross liked the record (dated, innit?) Five Leaves Left by Nick Drake and when a name was needed, that popped out as a small homage to that late singer songwriter. Only later did David Belbin reveal the origins of the name, and here it is in print in the book included in the boxed set of The Making of Five Leaves, the image also from Dave. Ross was so naïve. Five leaves was the usual number required to make a joint.

18/07/2025

And now we are five

18/07/2025

Here's Iain Sinclair, Ken Worpole and Susie Thomas discussing Alexander Baron's The Lowlife novel at the London Review Bookshop a week ago. Faber has brought out a new edition of The Lowlife with an intro by Iain, Ken and Susie were two of those involved in So We Live, our book on Alaxander Baron's novels - https://fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/so-we-live-the-novels-of-alexander-baron/, which sold out on the night. The third editor of So We Live, Andrew Whitehead, was also in the audience.
As well as the book about Baron's work, over the years we've published four of his other novels, though three are now only available as e-books. War Baby is still available in book format, and is in stock at the London Review Bookshop if you are passing. Another of our favourites, From the City, From the Plough was republished by the Imperial War Museum.

08/07/2025

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

22/06/2025

Here's the Ham & High take on our latest publication, Curious Muswell Hill -

Curious Muswell Hill explores the history of the Edwardian suburb where the first Wetherspoons was opened and The Kinks and Fairport Convention were…

10/06/2025

Perhaps see some of you there

04/06/2025

431... 432... The first batch of our latest Curious book has arrived in the shop now for all Hillbillies and those adjacent. fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/curious-muswell-hill/

01/05/2025

Good to see that Alexander Baron is author of the month at the London Review Bookshop. This is our book of essays on his work. Sadly we only have one of the novels left in print, The War Baby.
The tie in is with the republication of his The Lowlife, one that we were never able to get our hands on!
Great to see him back in the headlines though.
Here's the details -
tinyurl.com/46r74tzb