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Shalimar Books
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South Asian book specialist based in London since 1968. Fine art and handmade fair-trade craft products from across the sub-continent.

Open Monday-Saturday 11.30 to 6pm

@shalimarbooks.bsky.social
www.indianbooksuk.com
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Established in 1968, Shalimar Books (formerly Soma Books) is the leading (and perhaps only!) #SouthAsianbook specialist in London. 📚😃

We also have a dedicated #Palestine #bookshelf in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom and justice.

UK stock here:
uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar 📍
March 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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UK stock title #bookpile showcasing some of our new arrivals and bestsellers at Shalimar Books 😃📚🔥

Featuring titles on #politics, #history, #caste, #Palestine and #SouthAsianfiction 📚🙂❤

www.indianbooksuk.com

#booksky #bookstack
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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'After Savagery' reveals the ethical bankruptcy of “Western philosophy” and how it undergirds the erasure of the colonized.
🍉

If Israel is the West and the West is Israel, then Palestine is the world and the world is Palestine.
📚🍉

'After Savagery' by Hamid Dabashi.

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November 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
'After Savagery' reveals the ethical bankruptcy of “Western philosophy” and how it undergirds the erasure of the colonized.
🍉

If Israel is the West and the West is Israel, then Palestine is the world and the world is Palestine.
📚🍉

'After Savagery' by Hamid Dabashi.

@haymarketbooks.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
UK stock title #bookpile showcasing some of our new arrivals and bestsellers at Shalimar Books 😃📚🔥

Featuring titles on #politics, #history, #caste, #Palestine and #SouthAsianfiction 📚🙂❤

www.indianbooksuk.com

#booksky #bookstack
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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And we're back!! 📚🙂💜

We are now officially back open from today (Wednesday 12-November 2025)

New arrivals include #Dokra jewellery, #Gond tribal art and printed #cards, exclusive to our showroom in London. 😁📚

We look forward to seeing you all! 😃📚

@shalimarbooks.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
And we're back!! 📚🙂💜

We are now officially back open from today (Wednesday 12-November 2025)

New arrivals include #Dokra jewellery, #Gond tribal art and printed #cards, exclusive to our showroom in London. 😁📚

We look forward to seeing you all! 😃📚

@shalimarbooks.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
✴️We will be closed from 6th October - 3rd November as we take our annual break.

For enquiries, you can still get in touch with us here:
Email: [email protected]

We will be back open from 3rd November
www.indianbooksuk.com

Bookshop.org
uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar
October 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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A roundup #bookpile of some recent bestsellers before we take a break for the month of October. 😀📚💜

A huge thank you to our special community and loyal supporters. We look forward to seeing you all in November!
🤗💜📚

🌐 Website:
www.indianbooksuk.com

📚 Bookshop.org:
uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar
October 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of 'The God of Small Things'.
❤️

'Mother Mary Comes To Me' by Arundhati Roy.

@randomhouse.bsky.social

www.indianbooksuk.com

📚 Bookshop.org:
uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar

#ArundhatiRoy #Memoir #Booksky
September 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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An urgent and necessary reckoning with what it means to live in the West today.
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This book is for everyone who wants something better than what the West has served up. This is a book for our time.

'One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This'

@canongate.co.uk

#booksky #nonfiction
June 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Arab women poets have been writing since the earliest of times, yet for millennia, their diwans (collected poems) were kept in the shadows.
📚💜

This is some of the most beautiful poetry in the world … Timeless.’—Tracy Emin

'Classical Poems by Arab Women'

@saqibooks.bsky.social

#booksky #books
September 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A roundup #bookpile of some recent bestsellers before we take a break for the month of October. 😀📚💜

A huge thank you to our special community and loyal supporters. We look forward to seeing you all in November!
🤗💜📚

🌐 Website:
www.indianbooksuk.com

📚 Bookshop.org:
uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar
October 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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“When people say this business of ‘she’s the voice of the voiceless’, it makes me crazy. I say, there’s no voiceless, there’s only the deliberately silenced, you know, or the purposely unheard." - Arundhati Roy
April 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
'Here, day and night were interchangeable. The immaculately dressed Chowringhee, radiant in her youth, had just stepped on to the floor at the nightclub.'
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Set in 1950s Calcutta, 'Chowringhee' reveals an irresistible vision of a lost metropolis, a homage to an old India of myth and memory.
📚📚🏨
October 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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'The book of Indian Kings' comprises stories and essays on the greatest rulers in Indian history.
📚👑

This volume brings together some of the finest writers of our time including:

* Salman Rushdie on emperor Akbar
* Khushwant Singh on Maharaja Ranjit Singh
* William Dalrymple on Bahadur Shah Zafar
September 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Arab women poets have been writing since the earliest of times, yet for millennia, their diwans (collected poems) were kept in the shadows.
📚💜

This is some of the most beautiful poetry in the world … Timeless.’—Tracy Emin

'Classical Poems by Arab Women'

@saqibooks.bsky.social

#booksky #books
September 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
'The book of Indian Kings' comprises stories and essays on the greatest rulers in Indian history.
📚👑

This volume brings together some of the finest writers of our time including:

* Salman Rushdie on emperor Akbar
* Khushwant Singh on Maharaja Ranjit Singh
* William Dalrymple on Bahadur Shah Zafar
September 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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A #bookpile of new and current UK stock titles and bestsellers at Shalimar Books 📚🔆

Visit us for a range of #SouthAsianbooks, our dedicated Palestine shelves, and our unique collection of fair-trade art and handmade craft products from across the sub-continent.
🙂💜

uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar
August 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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A quick restock #bookpile of popular titles @shalimarbooks.bsky.social 📚

It has been heartening to see the huge response continue as we all grapple with the dark reality. We must keep fighting with hope for justice and freedom for Palestine and a better world.
📚📚🕯

#Palestine #booksky
July 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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An unrivalled selection of South Asian books alongside a unique collection of handmade fair-trade art and craft products from across the sub-continent.
📚💜😀

Images courtesy of the lovely @readsandchai
www.indianbooksuk.com

📚 Bookshop.org:
uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar

#booksky #booklovers
September 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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For unique gifts, art, home decor and an unrivalled selection of South Asian books on a wide range of subject areas, visit us in Kennington, South London, or find us online here;

🌐 Website:
www.indianbooksuk.com

📚 Bookshop.org:
uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar

Open Monday-Saturday 11.30 to 6pm 💜📚
July 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react?
📚🍉

These unsettling questions are posed in Ibtisam Azem’s powerfully imaginative novel.
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'The Book of Disappearance' by Ibtisam Azem.

Longlisted for Booker Prize 2025

#booksky
July 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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June 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of 'The God of Small Things'.
❤️

'Mother Mary Comes To Me' by Arundhati Roy.

@randomhouse.bsky.social

www.indianbooksuk.com

📚 Bookshop.org:
uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar

#ArundhatiRoy #Memoir #Booksky
September 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM