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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · 4d

✴️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

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · 23d

The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of 'The God of Small Things'.
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'Mother Mary Comes To Me' by Arundhati Roy.

@randomhouse.bsky.social

www.indianbooksuk.com

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

#ArundhatiRoy #Memoir #Booksky

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · Jun 13

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

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · 8d

Arab women poets have been writing since the earliest of times, yet for millennia, their diwans (collected poems) were kept in the shadows.
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This is some of the most beautiful poetry in the world … Timeless.’—Tracy Emin

'Classical Poems by Arab Women'

@saqibooks.bsky.social

#booksky #books

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · Apr 8

“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

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · 8d

'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.
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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · 8d

'The book of Indian Kings' comprises stories and essays on the greatest rulers in Indian history.
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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

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · 8d

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

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · 8d

'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

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · Mar 28

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 📍

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · Aug 8

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

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · Jul 11

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

A quick restock #bookpile of popular titles @shalimarbooks

As we witness one of the greatest crimes of our lifetime, books can provide us with so much; they can offer us knowledge, confirmation of what we may already feel, awakening, greater understanding or just some solice.

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.

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · Jul 18

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 💜📚

Come to Shalimar Books for an exclusive range of books, fine art and handmade craft products from across the Indian sub-continent.

As the UK's leading South Asian book specialist based in London, our long association with publishers and distributors across South Asia enables us to offer a wide range of books that you won't find anywhere else!

For unique gifts, home decor and books on a huge number of subject areas, visit us in Kennington, South London, or find us online here;

🌐 Website:
www.indianbooksuk.com

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

Open Monday-Saturday 11.30 to 6pm

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · Jul 23

What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react?
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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

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · Jun 5

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · 23d

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

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · Aug 29

Some superb titles in this August #bookpile of UK bestsellers @shalimarbooks.bsky.social 📚💜🙂

For anyone looking at this #bookstack and suffering from #fomo, you can find all of these and more online here:

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

#booksky #books

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · Aug 29

Some superb titles in this August #bookpile of UK bestsellers @shalimarbooks.bsky.social 📚💜🙂

For anyone looking at this #bookstack and suffering from #fomo, you can find all of these and more online here:

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

#booksky #books

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · Aug 27

We offer a huge range of single and dual-language titles for children at our showroom in Kennington, South London.
📚❤️

We welcome #teachers, #parents and educational specialists to help make #schools inclusive, as every child deserves to feel seen from day one.
🤗📚❤️

www.indianbooksuk.com
#kidsbooks

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · Aug 27

We offer a huge range of single and dual-language titles for children at our showroom in Kennington, South London.
📚❤️

We welcome #teachers, #parents and educational specialists to help make #schools inclusive, as every child deserves to feel seen from day one.
🤗📚❤️

www.indianbooksuk.com
#kidsbooks

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · Aug 26

A powerful, groundbreaking history of Gaza and the Occupied Territories from one of Israel's most influential historians.
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'The Biggest Prison on Earth' by Ilan Pappe.

www.indianbooksuk.com

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

From the author of the bestselling study of the 1948 War of Independence comes an incisive look at the Occupied Territories, picking up the story where 'The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine' left off.
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Pappe uses recently declassified archival material to analyse the motivations and strategies of the generals and politicians – and the decision-making process itself – that laid the foundation of the occupation. This book paints a picture of what is to all intents and purposes the world’s largest ‘open prison’.
📚📚🇵🇸
A powerful, groundbreaking history of Gaza and the Occupied Territories from one of Israel's most influential historians.
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'The Biggest Prison on Earth' by Ilan Pappe.

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