Press
Release: immediate
New
independent bookshop to open in Nottingham
The Nottingham-based publisher, Five
Leaves is to open a bookshop in Nottingham, the first independent
bookshop in the city since 2000.
The bookshop will open in mid-November
at 14a Long Row, opposite the Tourist Information Centre, in premises
that have been used as an art gallery and a café and will trade
under the name Five Leaves Bookshop.
Ross Bradshaw, owner of Five Leaves,
said “When I came to Nottingham in the late 70s there were several
independent bookshops and in subsequent years various chains were
represented, but for many years there has only been Waterstones in
the city centre. It's a great shop but there's plenty room for an
independent as well.”
The new bookshop will specialise in
history, politics and landscape; fiction and poetry; lesbian and gay
books; and international writing, with an emphasis on independent
publishers
Ross Bradshaw added “Nottinghamshire
has a flourishing literature scene, with more professional writers
than ever and a very active events programme including the
longstanding Lowdham Book Festival which I've been involved with
since the start. The bookshop will provide another focus and we will
work with local and national writers to build the shop's own
programme. The premises became available suddenly and we are working
hard to open by mid-November. Several of our own writers and other
local publishers are pitching in to help.”
Initial events will include a memorial
evening for the Nobel Literature Prize winner Seamus Heaney and a
speaker from the peace movement in Israel.
One of Nottingham's leading writers,
Jon McGregor, said “I'm hugely excited at the prospect of a new
independent bookshop in Nottingham. Despite the impact of online
retailing, there is still a place for the personalised experience of
a well-run independent bookshop; not just as a place to buy a book,
but as the hub for a community of readers and writers. Ross Bradshaw
has many years of experience in publishing and bookselling, and I'm
sure will make a fine job of it; I'm equally sure that Nottingham's
thriving community of writers and readers will support the venture
from day one."
The Five Leaves Bookshop will
complement other local independents including The Bookcase in Lowdham
and the graphic novel specialists Page 45 in Nottingham city centre.
For further information please contact
Ross Bradshaw, info@fiveleaves.co.uk,
0115 9895465 (w) 0115 9693597 (h).
Background
Ross Bradshaw worked at Mushroom
Bookshop in Nottingham from 1979-1995 (the shop closed in 2000) and
since then has run Five Leaves Publications, initially part-time
while working as Nottinghamshire County Council's literature office,
then full time. He is a trustee of the East Midlands Book Award and
the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. Five Leaves jointly
runs the Lowdham Book Festival with The Bookcase in Lowdham, the
biggest book festival in the region. Together with Housmans Bookshop
in London, Five Leaves established the London Radical Book Fair in
2012.
Five Leaves Publications forthcoming
books include a collection of essays on Crime, a biography of the
architectural writer Ian Nairn and A Brief History of Whistling by
Nottingham writers John Lucas and Allan Chatburn.
Five
Leaves Bookshop will be linked to the social enterprise Howie-Smith
Project, which supports small creative enterprises in Nottingham.
The
Five Leaves Bookshop will open for trading on 9th
November, but there will be a grand opening on 16th
November with events in the shop all day.
ENDS
16 comments:
Excellent news! What a brilliant development for Nottingham
Thanks, Janet. Interesting thing... 517 people have read the blog entry on here (others elsewhere) and you are the only person to have commented. But masses of the people who have read it have commented on Twitter and on Facebook. What does that all mean??
Congratulations! Wishing you and the bookshop all the best!
Ross, perhaps people think comments on a blog are somehow more formal than comments on Facebook & Twitter. They hang around longer. So if they simply want to say congrats or good luck or the like, they'll post on those other places. Meanwhile, congratulations. Good luck.
Thanks Anne, Pam and Charles - who is probably right (as he usually is).
This is brilliant news. Can't wait to frequent the new place (when I should be writing my thesis, most likely).
Commenting on blogs has been way down for years, Ross (unless they're part of newspaper websites, anyway) & it's far more useful to you to have people spread stuff on social media, rather than just talk to themselves here. But since you wanted comments, here's one. Good luck! You know you're going to need it...
Thanks, folks, and David you are right of course. I read less blogs I used to and comment only rarely. Re luck, you are not wrong there either.
Best of luck with this. I just went to a Women's Fiction Festival in southern Italy where (nearly) all the American bigwigs talked about 'the death of the bookshop' as though it is something we have to swallow. Finally one of them spoke differently - about the warmth of an independent bookshop, the act of choosing a book. I felt a warm ahhh rise in the air - it was a room full of authors! Best, cat
This is fantastic news for the city! We all need to spread the word and help make it a success.
We need to support independent bookshops and boycott Amazon: Amazon see trade union representation as illegitimate.http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/05/business/workers-of-amazon-divergent.html
Nice positive news for Nottingham. Shared it on Twitter for you so hopefully helping spread the word.
Thanks for everyone's comments, twitter links etc!
Good luck with the venture... shall be hopping the 9 from Loughborough over to check it out sometime soon...
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