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Nottingham publisher Five Leaves is to open a new bookshop in the city.
The outlet will be called The Five Leaves Bookshop and will open in mid-November after a property in the city's Long Row became available unexpectedly.
The bookshop will join the ranks of Nottingham's indie booksellers alongside The Bookcase in Lowdham, which is run by former Booksellers Association president Janet Streeter.
In a blog post on the Fives Leaves website, 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.”
Initial events will include a memorial evening for the Nobel Literature Prize winner Seamus Heaney and a speaker from the peace movement in Israel, Bradshaw said.