Books from Five Leaves

  • The Open Door
    The Open Door
    By Alan Sillitoe

    A grey mackintosh was folded over her arm, white blouse buttoned to the neck, a shoulderbag matching her brown lacedup shoes. 'With myself, I suppose.' She lacked breath, and smiled uncertainly, a headscarf to stop the wind scattering ...

  • Crime Scene: Britain and Ireland
    Crime Scene: Britain and Ireland
    By John Martin

    Poet and crime writer Michael J. Malone burst onto the Scottish crime scene in 2012 with his ... His bosses don't want to know so McBain must go it alone. www.inpressbooks.co.uk/author/m/michaeljmalone ...

  • London Fictions
    London Fictions
    By Jerry White, Andrew Whitehead

    Two dozen contemporary writers, from Cathi Unsworth to Courttia Newland, reflect on some of the novelists and the novels that have helped define the modern city, from George Gissing to Zadie Smith, Hangover Square to Brick Lane.

  • A Year of Two Summers
    A Year of Two Summers
    By Shaun Levin

    "A Year of Two Summers moves between South Africa, Israel, New York, and London. Shaun Levin's stories introduce us to an array of characters as they negotiate identity, migration, belonging,...

  • 1948
    1948
    By Andy Croft

      Nineteen Fortyeight is a comic versenovel, audaciously rewriting George Orwell’s Nineteen Eightyfour in Pushkin sonnets. Set during the 1948 London Olympics, it offers a radically alternative history of...

  • Baron's Court, All Change
    Baron's Court, All Change
    By Terry Taylor

    ... are,” the inspector said, changing his tactics again. “You don't want us to have to take you down to that nasty old police station, do you? It would be far nicer if we could settle it all here. This little room of yours is so cosy, ...

  • Talking Anarchy
    Talking Anarchy
    By Colin Ward, David Goodway

    Of all political views anarchism is the most ill-represented. For more than 30 years, in over 30 books, Colin Ward has been patiently explaining anarchist solutions to everything from vandalism...

  • Red Sky at Night: An Anthology of British Socialist Poetry
    Red Sky at Night: An Anthology of British Socialist Poetry
    By Andy Croft, Adrian Mitchell

    An anthology of British socialist poetry. It starts with William Blake, John Clare, Charles Dickens and Shelley, and ends with Carol Ann Duffy, Benjamin Zephaniah, Jackie Kay and Mr Social...

  • Rock 'n' Roll Jews
    Rock 'n' Roll Jews
    By Michael Billig

    A disciplined study that reveals the many contributions of Jews throughout the history of rock 'n' roll.

  • Crossing the Border: Voices of Refugee and Exiled Women
    Crossing the Border: Voices of Refugee and Exiled Women
    By Jennifer Langer

    Women and children make up 80% of the world's refugee population, yet their voices are seldom heard. In Crossing the Border, women writers from Somalia, Afghanistan, Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan,...

  • Arcadia for All: The Legacy of a Makeshift Landscape
    Arcadia for All: The Legacy of a Makeshift Landscape
    By Colin Ward, Dennis Hardy

    From Canvey Island to Jaywick Sands, from Peacehaven to Pitsea; in the first 40 years of last century, thousands of English families made their own place in the sun, without...