This account has been moribund for ages but Five Leaves Bookshop - though primarily for our bookshop - is as lively as a cohort of young monkeys. We will close this account soon so please follow Five Leaves Bookshop!

Time passes and it’s nice to be reminded ...lovely piece by Ken Worpole and incidentally a plug for our Nairn book of fond memory (ebook still) caughtbytheriver.net/2013/12/the-fo…

Full house for Frances O'Grady at Ken Coates memorial lecture, reminder of the great days of Institute for Workers Control

Our boardrooms are in need of the ingenuity of working people, those whose livelyhoods depend on the survival of the firms ..

Without workers rights in Europe it will become a sweatshop

Frances bought Ken Coates book New Unionism in 1974 when she was 15

The government is not invincible. .. We need to rebuild our movement with new alliances ... Living our values in real communities

Advocating links with housing campaigns, young people without trade union traditions. TUC planning to reach out to precariat

Reaching out to fast food workers, Batista's, cinema workers, supporting their self organising like the Ritzy cinema staff

Sam Read Bookshop in Grasmere is well worth a visit if you are in the Lake District. Very good selection on landscape.

72 tables lovingly laid out for the big book fair at Lowdhsm book festival on Saturday

We've got Sheila from Inpress Books 📚, Ross from Five Leaves & Jane from Nine Arches Press talking about value & price of books. #Indypubs

One of the lovely publishers joining us at the Poetry Book Fair on 26th is Five Leaves - visit their website here! fiveleaves.co.uk

These Seven short stories - part of Nottingham City of Literature (is away & reading) bid Five Leaves ourbookreviewsonline.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/these-…

Over Sea, Over Land, Poems For Those Seeking Refuge is out tomorrow & makes for an ideal Five Leaves xmas present fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/over-land-over…

Next Year Will Be Better (the book, not the notion), reviewed by David Collard davidjcollard.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/next-y…

sciencefestival.co.uk/event-details/… - gillian darley is speaking, with the new reprint of Villages of Vision on sale!

Probably everyone knows about this....www.statesofindependence.co.uk, tomorrow

Great read from Jones the planner & Five Leaves Takes the gen approach of Towns in Britain to six northern cities