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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
'You can't exactly stop birds from flying, can you? They go where they will...'

'A remarkably accomplished, polished debut.' MALORIE BLACKMAN

'Rightfully tipped for greatness' SUNDAY TIMES

'We Are All Birds Of Uganda' by Hafsa Zayyan.

@penguinbooks.bsky.social

#booksky #books
November 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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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.
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If Israel is the West and the West is Israel, then Palestine is the world and the world is Palestine.
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'After Savagery' by Hamid Dabashi.

@haymarketbooks.org
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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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?
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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
July 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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June 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM