Recommended Books
Crone Chronicles
Sue Allen, Laura Grevel, Clare Stewart
Big White Shed

Three Nottingham-based friends, self-identifying crones, explore the experience of older women through poetry. Sue, Laura and Clare met through DIY Poets, and are active performance poets, with a number of publications to their names and have appeared in numerous poetry festivals around the country. They are all involved in running Women Write at Nottingham Women’s Centre.
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A Family of Education & Architecture
the story of the Higginbottoms of Arnold
by Bob Massey

W.H Higginbottom and his family are so interwined with the history of Arnold that the author felt compelled to write this short history. However, the story of the Higginbottoms can’t be told without reference to other families such as the Swifts and Spencers.
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Step Forward, Harry Salt
by Ross Lowe

Something strange is afoot in the Derbyshire hills. But what does that mean for Harry Salt? He’s a young man with a big secret. So big, that the Prime Minister wants a piece of him.
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Dispatches from the Diaspora
From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter
Younge, Gary

A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and black life and death from one of the nation’s leading political voices.
For the last three decades Gary Younge has had a ringside seat during the biggest events and with the most significant personalities to impact the black diaspora: accompanying Nelson Mandela on his first election campaign, joining revellers on the southside of Chicago during Obama’s victory, entering New Orleans days after hurricane Katrina or interviewing Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Maya Angelou and Stormzy.
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Fighting in a World on Fire
The Next Generation’s Guide to Protecting the Climate and Saving Our Future
Malm, Andreas

Young people are inheriting a world of climate catastrophe. Young people are also one of the strongest forces leading movements for climate justice, and to halt the fossil fuel emissions that are making our Earth unlivable.
As Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for the Future movement have made clear, solutions offered by adults are far too little, far too late: the measures in unenforceable international agreements won’t halt our reliance on fossil fuels, or take the drastic steps humans need to take in order to keep our planet livable.
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Notts Bookshops
Five Leaves Bookshop

One of the few independents to open in any UK city centre this century! Find us opposite Nottingham Tourism centre.
14A Long Row Nottingham
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Big White Shed

Big White Shed is a place to seek advice and tools, trade expertise and ideas in order to complete a creative project - a virtual meeting place for people who want to get a job done and the people who can help achieve that. In the shed, we will think through what you have in mind, and help make it a reality.
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The Bookcase

More than just a bookshop ...
Lowdham Nottinghamshire
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Bookwise
Bookwise comprises three charity bookshops in Hockley, Southwell & Newark, selling second hand books (many nearly new) in support of Music for Everyone.
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BEARDED BADGER PUBLISHING
Bearded Badger Publishing Co. was born from love....the love of books, magazines, pamphlets, in fact pretty much anything you can feast your eyes on!
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Waterstones Nottingham
Waterstones Nottingham, situated in the heart of the East Midlands, is home to a wonderful selection of books and gifts sure to excite all book lovers.
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Online Publications
Nottingham Books
A website dedicated to books about Nottinghamshire and those written by Nottinghamshire authors
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In The Moment 01
A collection of poems and short stoires
by Guy Jones
All the pieces in this book were performed by Guy Jones at open mic sessions in and around Nottingham
All proceeds go toward HotHouse Theatre's Edinburgh Fund
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