✴️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

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

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

An urgent and necessary reckoning with what it means to live in the West today. 🌎 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

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

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

“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

'Here, day and night were interchangeable. The immaculately dressed Chowringhee, radiant in her youth, had just stepped on to the floor at the nightclub.' 📚🏨 Set in 1950s Calcutta, 'Chowringhee' reveals an irresistible vision of a lost metropolis, a homage to an old India of myth and memory. 📚📚🏨

'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

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

'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

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 📍

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

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

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

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 💜📚

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. 📚🍉 'The Book of Disappearance' by Ibtisam Azem. Longlisted for Booker Prize 2025 #booksky

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

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

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

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

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

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

A powerful, groundbreaking history of Gaza and the Occupied Territories from one of Israel's most influential historians. 📚📚 'The Biggest Prison on Earth' by Ilan Pappe. www.indianbooksuk.com 📚 Bookshop.org: uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar

A powerful, groundbreaking history of Gaza and the Occupied Territories from one of Israel's most influential historians. 📚📚 'The Biggest Prison on Earth' by Ilan Pappe. www.indianbooksuk.com 📚 Bookshop.org: uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar

Shining a light on the fate of all those living through war and occupation, 'Who Will Tell My Story?' conveys with astonishing clarity how seeds of hope might linger amid the most trying of times. 📚📚 @faberbooks.bsky.social 📚 Bookshop.org: uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar

A tribute to one of India's most outstanding revolutionaries, Bhagat Singh, 'Liberation's Blazing Star' seeks to situate him in his own times and understand his legacy and relevance to us today. 📚 'Bhagat Singh, Liberation's Blazing Star' by P.M.S Grewal. 📚 www.indianbooksuk.com #booksky #India

A comprehensive anthology of stories by a diverse group of authors from North India, West Bengal, Bangladesh and Pakistan on the most traumatic period in the history of the subcontinent. 🔆 'Orphans of the Storm Stories on the Partiton of India' By Saros Cowasjee, K.S. Duggal. www.indianbooksuk.com

The electrifying story of India’s struggle for #independence, told in this classic account (first published in 1975), containing hundreds of interviews with nearly all the surviving participants at the time – from Mountbatten to the assassins of Mahatma Gandhi. www.indianbooksuk.com #booksky

A tribute to one of India's most outstanding revolutionaries, Bhagat Singh, 'Liberation's Blazing Star' seeks to situate him in his own times and understand his legacy and relevance to us today. 📚 'Bhagat Singh, Liberation's Blazing Star' by P.M.S Grewal. 📚 www.indianbooksuk.com #booksky #India

The electrifying story of India’s struggle for #independence, told in this classic account (first published in 1975), containing hundreds of interviews with nearly all the surviving participants at the time – from Mountbatten to the assassins of Mahatma Gandhi. www.indianbooksuk.com #booksky

For a unique collection of #SouthAsian #art, #craft and #books, visit us at Shalimarbooks! 🙂📚 Established in 1968, our long association with publishers and distributors enables us to offer a range of books from across the sub-continent that you simply cannot find anywhere else in the UK. 😊📚🔥

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

Shining a light on the fate of all those living through war and occupation, 'Who Will Tell My Story?' conveys with astonishing clarity how seeds of hope might linger amid the most trying of times. 📚📚 @faberbooks.bsky.social 📚 Bookshop.org: uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar

In 1896, a Jewish state was a pipe dream. Today the overwhelming majority of Jews identify as Zionists. How did this happen? 📚 'Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic' shows us how an unassailable consensus was built – and how it might be dismantled. 📚📚 @simonandschuster.bsky.social

In 1896, a Jewish state was a pipe dream. Today the overwhelming majority of Jews identify as Zionists. How did this happen? 📚 'Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic' shows us how an unassailable consensus was built – and how it might be dismantled. 📚📚 @simonandschuster.bsky.social

In 12 stories, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. 💜 Her opus has garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well as India’s most prestigious literary awards; this is a collection sure to be read for years to come.

Full of warmth, humour, optimism and sometimes painful honesty' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE 'Anyone who's ever struggled to make sense of who they are and where they belong should read this book' NADIA WHITTOME MP 'Both Not Half' by Jassa Ahluwalia. @officialjassa.bsky.social #booksky #bothnothalf

Brimming with love, lush, violence and loss, Gurnaik Johal's magisterial debut deftly animates the passions that bind us to our histories, our lands and each other. 📚📚🌊 'Saraswati' by Gurnaik Johal. @gurnaikjohal @serpentstail.bsky.social #booksky #SouthAsianFiction

"If I must die, let it bring hope, let it be a tale." This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and professor, Refaat Alareer, brings together his marvelous poetry and deeply human writing about literature, teaching, politics, and family. 📚💙 #booksky #poetry

After Zionism' brings together some of the world's leading thinkers on the Middle East question. 📚🍉 In thought-provoking essays, the contributors dissect the century-long conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians, and explore possible forms of a one-state solution. 📚📚🍉 #onestate

'The Argumentative Indian' brings together an illuminating selection of writings from Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen that outline the need to understand contemporary India in the light of its long argumentative tradition. 📚☀️ 'The Argumentative Indian' uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar

'The Argumentative Indian' brings together an illuminating selection of writings from Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen that outline the need to understand contemporary India in the light of its long argumentative tradition. 📚☀️ 'The Argumentative Indian' uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar

Our happy book donation day! 😃📚 Bookbanks is a charity that brings books to food banks in the UK. All we really want is to get good books into kids' hands, and these guys are really doing it! 📚 Please support their efforts, knowing that great books are getting to children who appreciate it most.

After Zionism' brings together some of the world's leading thinkers on the Middle East question. 📚🍉 In thought-provoking essays, the contributors dissect the century-long conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians, and explore possible forms of a one-state solution. 📚📚🍉 #onestate

Our happy book donation day! 😃📚 Bookbanks is a charity that brings books to food banks in the UK. All we really want is to get good books into kids' hands, and these guys are really doing it! 📚 Please support their efforts, knowing that great books are getting to children who appreciate it most.

A #bookpile of recent stock titles @shalimarbooks 📚 For more titles on #Palestine and a huge selection of South Asian books on a wide range of areas, visit us or check us out online and on bookshop.org: 📚📚 🌐 Website: www.indianbooksuk.com 📚 Bookshop.org: uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar

A #bookpile of recent stock titles @shalimarbooks 📚 For more titles on #Palestine and a huge selection of South Asian books on a wide range of areas, visit us or check us out online and on bookshop.org: 📚📚 🌐 Website: www.indianbooksuk.com 📚 Bookshop.org: uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar

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. 📚🍉 'The Book of Disappearance' by Ibtisam Azem. Longlisted for Booker Prize 2025 #booksky