Make sure to put your orders through ASAP before we go on break on December 10th! 📚 Discover excellent experimental literatures that prioritise radical, anti-colonial, anti-racist, and late modernist voices 🎁 Order online at our bookshop or anywhere else that sells books: the87press.co.uk/shop

For Read Palestine Week, we’re offering 40% off our Palestinian literature bundle, 𝔽ℝ𝕆𝕄 𝕋ℍ𝔼 ℝ𝕀𝕍𝔼ℝ 𝕋𝕆 𝕋ℍ𝔼 𝕊𝔼𝔸. And this week only, all E-BOOKS in this bundle are FREE. Why not buy the bundle as a gift and enjoy the e-book versions yourself 📖❤️ www.hajarpress.com/bundles/p/fr...

END OF YEAR SALE!!! 📚🎁📚🎁📚🎁📚 Do you like stunning political literature? Do your friends like stunning political literature? Say no more 🙏🏾 We're giving you 30% off all books till 16 December 😘 www.hajarpress.com/books/

‘It’s the language of trying to accommodate power … rather than the language of the people.’ Saima Begum speaks on the language of academic neutrality at the launch of her debut novel, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘑𝘢𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴.

A moving launch for The First Jasmines last night. Heartfelt thanks to Shahnaz Ahsan for holding the conversation with such love and tenderness, to @housmansbookshop.bsky.social for hosting us, and to everyone who came and listened to the stories of the women of the Bangladesh Liberation War.

📚🎙️ "The women, instead of being seen, they are in many ways weaponised in history to serve a different means for different groups of people." A conversation with Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’ and #Bangladesh’s birangona women: buff.ly/62hvcxh

ICYMI: The co-founders of 404 Ink will release a final title under their tenure, titled Publisher Not Found: A Decade of Disruption, 404 Ink 2016-2026 👇 #BookSky

Lena’s friend Bell doesn’t hold back behind the till at the bookshop 👀🤭 𖦹°⭒˚ೃ࿔ A preview reading by Nida Sajid from 𝘾𝙊𝙊𝙋 at the @lighthousebks.bsky.social Radical Book Fair 💫 𝘾𝙊𝙊𝙋 — a novelette on work and words, and how they distort the world — is out on 18 December! www.hajarpress.com/books/coop

What could be better on a winter’s day than the cosy warmth of community?? 🫂 Come visit Hajar, @thecommonpress.bsky.social, @peoplesletters.bsky.social + more @ the Tower Hamlets BOOK SALE! ❄️📚🧵💎📓🪡🧶✨ Sat 6 Dec, 10am–2pm Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives 277 Bancroft Road London E1 4DQ

It’s been a beautiful weekend being up in Edinburgh for the Radical Book Fair and a special creative writing workshop around The Hajar Book of Rage 🥰 Love and gratitude to all the amazing people at @lighthousebks.bsky.social, @typewronger.bsky.social and PublishED for all your care and hard work ❤️‍🔥

Mymona Bibi reads from her poem ‘Application for Social Housing in Tower Hamlets’, published in ‘The Hajar Book of Rage’, at the @lighthousebks.bsky.social Radical Book Fair 2025. www.hajarpress.com/books/elemen...

IN CONVERSATION WITH: Zena Agha, part of the White Kite Collective - Messages from Gaza is at @stratfordeast.com on 8th November 'We're not only conduits of the texts but also memory-keepers, holding onto these histories of people living and dead.'

What a beautiful book club session last week at Housmans Radical Booksellers. Thank you to everyone who came, and thank you Heba Hayek, author of Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies, for sharing this lovely work and your lovely self with us 💖

This week’s spotlight is on Hajar Press, an inspiring indie publisher founded by and for people of colour. They’re reshaping the publishing landscape with their bold and genre-blurring books!!📚 Read more in our latest issue! www.thepublishingpost.com/post/spotlig...

Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair is NEXT WEEK! As well as a jam-packed program - over 20 events! - we’re filling Assembly Roxy with BOOKS, community, and publisher stalls. 📚 Stalls feature over 70 publishers & 50 writers speaking - a treasure trove of bookish delights awaits!📚

Publishers big & small, from Pluto & Verso & Haymarket to Hajar & Dog Section & Mack Books, from Canongate Books to Luath, Virago to Fitzcarraldo, Freedom Press & Hurst to Iskra. Come browse, buy indie books from an indie bookshop, be inspired!

Following two queer Afghans — Delbar and Mansur — whose paths converge in Istanbul, Bobuq Sayed’s piercing debut, NO GOD BUT US, is a story of boundaries crossed, the violence of borders and heteronormativity, and the intricacies of love and power in family, friendship and romance.

What do we carry from one year to the next? In her debut collection, OCTOBER, Nur Turkmani meditates on rupture and transformation through cycles of Lebanon’s Octobers, from the euphoria of the 2019 revolution, to its anniversaries marked by crisis, war and the genocide in Gaza.

I'm a committed small press author & editor. Small presses are the seed-heads of the books world & they are scorched. Pls read and share this excellent letter on the situation & what's needed in @thebookseller.com, signatories inc Peninsula Press, @cipherpress.bsky.social @silver-press.bsky.social

'Rage is often a result of perceived impotence to be able to affect change, but this book offers purpose and focus: a call to arms.' The @hajarpress.bsky.social Book of Rage is out today – our review, by Alistair Braidwood www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...

🔥 It’s heeeere! The Hajar Book of Rage is out today! Igniting the first spark in the ‘elements’ anthology series, this is a searing tribute to the fires of anger that fuel our resistance 🔥 Get your copy now ☄️☄️☄️ www.hajarpress.com/books/elemen...

“The women were able to resist the tyranny of the mind because they were able to use their own words for what it meant to be free, what it meant to survive, what it meant to escape.” Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’:

“The women, instead of being seen, are weaponised in history to serve a different means for different groups of people.” A conversation with #British-#Bangladeshi writer Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’:

#Bangladesh #history #LiberationWar “There were hundreds of thousands of women who had been raped. But then I couldn’t find them anywhere, not in history books or testimonies.” A conversation with the British-Bangladeshi writer Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’:

“This story of 1971 can be applied to many other histories, just as the histories of women who are raped during war in other countries can inform this history.” A conversation with Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’:

“What I wanted to do with ‘The First Jasmines’ is to enter it into a conversation where the women are not just victims, but that they should also be given a front row seat into what it means to define the public memory of the war.” Saima Begum on the #biragona women of #Bangladesh:

Not often I get a chance to grab a physical copy of The Skinny but nice to see two titles I've typset recently (La Lucha and The Hajar Book of Rage) getting their deserved props. Unsurprisingly, it's a time for rage-fuelled non-ficition again (not that it ever stopped)

‘This book offers purpose and focus: a call to arms … a place where historical injustice and present-day horrors sit side by side, and where the personal meets the universal.’ Grateful to @theskinnymag.bsky.social for this thoughtful review of The Hajar Book of Rage: theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...

Autumn is looking eventful! 🍁 Join us for a workshop and a cabaret to launch The Hajar Book of Rage; a conversation about political literature in the @lighthousebks.bsky.social Radical Book Fair; and another celebration of The First Jasmines at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥 hajarpress.com/events

Saima Begum reading from her debut novel, The First Jasmines. Set in 1971, it tells the stories of the women captured and abused by the Pakistan Army during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Full video from the book launch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plwz...

📣 We’re hiring a Community Coordinator! If you have ⭐️ an understanding of Hajar’s mission ⭐️ experience in community engagement ⭐️ excellent communication & organisational skills ⭐️ the ability to work proactively in a small team Apply by 7 Nov www.hajarpress.com/jobs Part-time 10–14 hrs/wk £17.10/hr

The launch event at Root25 for Saima Begum's new novel, The First Jasmines, was beautiful. Thank you so much to everyone who came through and joined in the conversation with us 💚 If you missed it, you can now catch up on YouTube 💫 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plwz...

🎉 Happy publication day to Saima Begum! 👏🏾 THE FIRST JASMINES reveals the lives and experiences of the hundreds of thousands of women captured and abused by the Pakistan Army during the 1971 Bangladeshi Liberation War. Available now. www.hajarpress.com/books/the-fi...

hajar press is consistently publishing some of the most beautiful radical & visionary writing out there !!!! cannot recommend We, the Heartbroken and Experiments in Imagining Otherwise enough!!!!

USian pals, this is incredible news! Look out for powerful, poetic, political books by faves Sarah Lasoye, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Heba Hayek, Mohamed Tonsy, Lola Olufemi, Yara Hawari, Pearl Nuallak, Zena Agha & more.

🎺 We’re now distributed in the US by the fantastic small press distributor @asterismbooks.bsky.social! Whether you’re a reader or a bookseller, if you’re in North America you can now buy our books through Asterism more quickly and affordably than ever before 🙌🏾 asterismbooks.com/publisher/ha...

Congratulations to my PhD student Sophie Chauhan for having her book Curious Affinities @hajarpress.bsky.social in the window of the iconic Gay’s the Word @gaystheword.bsky.social in London! (The carabiner on the cover! 🩷🧡🤍🫰🏼) Alongside Thom Gunn, Jackie Kay, Audre Lorde! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

"What happened to these women afterwards? Why was their history brushed away?" Saima Begum explores the gaps in the history and literature of Bangladesh with debut novel THE FIRST JASMINES, out next week with @hajarpress.bsky.social

Subscribers are already reading Saima Begum’s debut novel, The First Jasmines — are you? 👀 Pre-orders will be sent after the official release, but if you can’t wait till the 31st, join the Hajar subscription to get your copy early 🫰🏾 www.hajarpress.com/subscribe

Read an extract from Saima Begum's forthcoming debut, THE FIRST JASMINES ( @hajarpress.bsky.social). The novel centres two sisters who – around the dawn of Bangladesh as a nation – are captured by Pakistani soldiers and forced to waste their days in a makeshift prison. buff.ly/vu4zfGC

British-Bangladeshi author Saima Begum shares family photos and memories, reflecting on how her parents’ inspiration and support has made her writing possible ✍🏾

Contribute to the legal fundraiser to help @palaction.bsky.social fight the UK Labour government's attempt to proscribe their movement: www.crowdjustice.com/case/palesti... We are all Palestine Action 🇵🇸

We are all Palestine Action. 🇵🇸

One more book for 2025, as a treat! COOP: A NOVELETTE by Nida Sajid 💫 Between minimum-wage work and strained texts with her parents, Lena’s days are shaped by struggles with food and the hunt for a ‘real job'. As her story unravels, can she find autonomy and escape? www.hajarpress.com/books/coop

*NEW BOOK ALERT!* How good is this cover by Han Gunji Stephens & Samara Jundi for the first book in our new elements series 🧨 Out in October, The Hajar Book of Rage is a searing tribute to the fires of anger that fuel our resistance ❤️‍🔥 Preorder now 😌 www.hajarpress.com/books/elemen...

On this day in 1979, schoolteacher and leftist organiser Blair Peach received a killing blow from a police officer at a protest in Southall, west London, against a meeting by the fascist National Front party.

Submissions for The Hajar Book of Rage close TOMORROW, Tuesday 15th April, at 23:59 📝

Leila Khaled was born on this day in 1944. She is a Palestinian insurrectionist who became famous for her involvement in plane hijackings in 1969–70. On TWA Flight 840 due for Tel Aviv, she demanded the pilot fly over Haifa so she could see her birthplace, which her family fled during the Nakba.

‘I don’t believe we can build a different, better world without being heartbroken.’ In ‘We, The Heartbroken’ (2023), Gargi Bhattacharyya plays with the 7 stages of grief to explore heartbreak as class consciousness, asking how being broken by this world could move us to remake it 🌹

INTRODUCING: 🔥🌿 elements 🌊🫧  Our first ever anthology series explores the politically transformative power of Fire, Earth, Water and Air! Find out more and read our call for submissions here: www.hajarpress.com/books/elemen...