Five Leaves Publications: 28 books

The first in a series of annual journals from Five Leaves, a set of essays on the loose theme of Maps. The essays are a mixture of material "from the vaults", from work in progress and commissioned work. Writing from Iain Sinclair, Chris Arnot, David Belbin, Ross Bradshaw, Ian Parks, Andy...

The second annual themed compendium of writing by Five Leaves' authors and friends. Includes contributions from Paul Barker, Marie Louise Berneri, Will Buckingham, Ian Clayton, Jeff Cloves, Gillian Darley, Dennis Hardy, Pippa Hennessy, Haywire Mac, Mike Marqusee, John Lucas, William Morris, Chris...

The third annual themed compendium of essays from Five Leaves. Previous volumes include Maps and Utopia. The essays are quirky, intelligent and thoughtprovoking. Subjects in this collection range from true crime stories and personal experiences to historic essays and material on crime fiction.

The Holy Grail of beatnik novels, 'Baron's Court, All Change' documents one summer in the life of a sixteenyearold boy. He leaves his suburban home and boring job for a pad in central London, courtesy of the money he makes from dealing dope. Along the way he dabbles with spiritualism and is seduced by an older woman.

We'd a lot of fun in those tumbledown days. Hippies playing at being parish priests. Personal Copy is Ray Gosling's memoir of the 1950s. He writes about building and losing a youth centre in Leicester, trying to do things differently before retreating, bruised, to Nottingham. He made his name there...

The scars left by the 1984/85 "Great Strike for Jobs" are still raw in Nottinghamshire, thirty years later. There, the majority of the National Union of Mineworkers did not support their union, working throughout the strike, later forming the breakaway Union of Democratic Miners. Look Back...

The Open Door follows Saturday Night and Sunday Morning as the final volume in the Seaton series. Returning on a troopship from Malaya in 1949, Brian Seaton (Arthur's brother) comes back to a Nottingham world of rationing, the black market, a wife he no longer loves and a child who does not recognise...

Jack Kiley, a professional footballer turned private investigator, is hired to track down a solider who has gone missing while on leave from Iraq. The soldier's mind is disturbed by what he has seen and done in the war, and he is armed. There are fears both for the man himself and for the safety of...

Going Down Slow includes seven short stories, two of which feature Charlie Resnick and three feature Jack Kiley.

In the spring of 1949, Jack Agass belatedly returns from the war to the working class street in Islington where he grew up. A proud, supportive community with a pub and a barber shop, and a common love of The Arsenal. But the street has changed. Jack eventually finds his footing but he’s haunted...

Joe Beckett drifts from job to job and woman to woman in a seedy world of bedsitters and allnight cafes. Living in the wasteland between Notting Hill and Earl’s Court, he heats up tins on gas rings and smuggles girls past the landlady. He has no values or beliefs. A chance encounter with a roadhouse...

Farah Jafari needs sanctuary, but now she is dead. A man is in custody and soon the case will be closed. DC Tina Barraclough works with refugees like Farah and the man under arrest and she knows there is something wrong with the official version. She is off the case, but needs to find out what really happened. What price is she prepared to pay?

Jack deals in cardboard, selling expensive and rare gaming cards to rich collectors. He makes plenty of money, travelling the world. He meets millionaire Henri, the man who has everything. Well, almost everything. Henri wants the elusive Okinawa Dragon, a oneoff card given to a Japanese businessman...

1911, London. The police collaborate with racketeers to keep an uneasy peace, periodically broken by violent gang wars. Dido Peach comes to prominence by breaking the unwritten rules of the street. For a brief time he rules the underworld. His fall is spectacular, shaking even the callous and vicious neighbourhood in which he is trapped.