Shalimar Books

12/08/2026

The London Radical Bookfair is back! A welcoming space for readers and organisers to exchange ideas, discover new writing, and build connections across movements and communities.
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Organised by SHOP AT thisisbooklove.com & donate and Housmans Bookshop on behalf of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers, this free event will run from 11am–5pm and is open to everyone.
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LRB is an inclusive event for the whole community. Alongside political and independent publishing, the fair will include children’s books, family-friendly materials and accessible spaces for people of all ages to browse, learn and take part!  
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📍Event Details

Sunday 6 September
11am-5pm
Stanley Arts, South Norwood, London

Free entry – all welcome! 😎

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08/08/2026

A bilingual anthology of poems from Palestine (2023-2024), 'You Must Live' attests to existence in the face of suppression.
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Translated from Arabic and edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor, this collection gathers the voices of poets currently living in Palestinian territory, most of whom have never left. Yet the poems in 'You Must Live' refuse to cast their speakers as perpetual victims.
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Diverse voices and styles shine throughout- powerful, prayerful, theatrical, and even humorous- as poets write love letters to the landscape, elegies for martyrs and homes, and proclamations for the future. Negotiating the interplay between aesthetics and politics, the individual and the collective, 'You Must Live' sounds as an urgent call to the global community.
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'You must live: New Poetry from Palestine'

Copper Canyon Press
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07/08/2026

Two-thirds of today's British Pakistani diaspora trace their origins back to Mirpur in Azad Kashmir, a district that saw mass displacement and migration when it was submerged by the waters of a dam built after Partition.
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Sabba Khan's debut graphic memoir explores what identity, belonging and memory mean for her and her family against the backdrop of this history.
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'The Roles We Play' by Sabba Khan.

Shalimar Books
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05/08/2026

This book offers the first social and intellectual history of Dalit performance of Tamasha—a popular form of public, secular, traveling theater in Maharashtra—and places Dalit Tamasha women who represented the desire and disgust of the patriarchal society at the heart of modernization in twentieth century India.
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Drawing on ethnographies, films, and untapped archival materials, Shailaja Paik illuminates how Tamasha was produced and shaped through conflicts over caste, gender, sexuality, and culture. Dalit performers, activists, and leaders negotiated the violence and stigma in Tamasha as they struggled to claim manuski (human dignity) and transform themselves from ashlil (vulgar) to assli (authentic) and manus (human beings).
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Building on and departing from the Ambedkar-centered historiography and movement-focused approach of Dalit studies, Paik examines the ordinary and everydayness in Dalit lives. Ultimately, she demonstrates how the choices that communities make about culture speak to much larger questions about inclusion, inequality, and structures of violence of caste within Indian society, and opens up new approaches for the transformative potential of Dalit politics and the global history of gender, sexuality, and the human.
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'The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India' by Shailaja Paik.

Navayana
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31/07/2026

30/07/2026

Drawing on narratives of women and q***r folx from South Asia, 'Yaari' reflects on friendship in all its avatars--as wondrous and full of excitement; as joyous and embedded in an ethics of care, as evoking jealousy, anger, and disappointment; and as strained and fractured.
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Just as friendship itself resists definition, the pieces in this collection come in various shapes and forms: comic strips and poems, essays and fiction, as paeans, reflections and rants.
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These ninety-five contributions examine the world not only through the lens of what is but what we might aspire to. At the heart of this anthology is the recognition that friendship not just matters but is also deeply political" --
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'Yaari: An Anthology on Friendship by Women and Q***r Folx'

Yoda Press
Shalimar Books

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24/07/2026

A quick of July bestsellers here at Shalimar Books! 📚😎💜

Some superb titles that reflect the wide range of South Asian literature that we offer across a number of subject areas.

A big thank you to our wonderful, loyal customers and supporters while we have been operating on reduced hours this month. We hope to be back to full strength soon!! 💪📚🙂

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22/07/2026

Trauma, particularly that of women, has typically been relegated to silence and oblivion.

'Sing, Slivered Tongue' is a collection of poetry by women from South Asia writing on trauma. The title of the volume is a reference to the ancient legend of Khona, a wise woman whose tongue was severed by her envious father-in-law.
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The volume gathers together the voices and experiences of sixty-eight women from various South Asian communities, in an attempt to explore the subject of trauma through a gendered lens.
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Lopamudra Basu and Feroza Jussawalla, the volume's editors, ensure that the preconceived notion of silence around women's trauma is subverted, even as the verses they bring together explore the enduring sensations and experiences of trauma, loss, and grief from across South Asia.
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'Sing, Slivered Tongue: An Anthology of South Asian Women's Poetry of Trauma in English'

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22/07/2026

A recent of newly imported stock titles, courtesy of the inimitable Yoda Press 😎📚💜

We are proud to represent several great publishers from India here in the UK. Yoda Press is at the forefront of all that is right in the modern Indian publishing scene. Fiercely independent and producing some of the most exciting and progressive titles available anywhere across the sub-continent and the world 🌎 📚😃

Visit us while stocks last!

Current opening times:
🕜 Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 11.30 to 6pm

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22/07/2026

Gurram Jashuva is considered the father of Dalit literature in Telugu. He wrote using the Sanskrit meter in classical Telugu to prove himself an equal to Brahmin pandits.
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In 'Gabbilam', Jashuva challenges the dominant Sanskrit and Telugu literary sphere by choosing the bat, known as Gabbilam in Telugu and believed to be a bad omen, as it is considered neither a bird nor an animal, to reflect the existential status of untouchables.
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'Gabbilam' presents a Dalit man as the hero and protagonist perhaps for the first time in the classical verse-epic tradition of Indian poetry, and is the earliest text to highlight the oppression, exclusion, and dehumanization of untouchables in casteist Hindu society.
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This title occupies a pre-eminent position in the Telugu literary sphere, not just for the depiction of Dalit suffering but also for bringing the language of ordinary people into the classical medium. In its English translation for the first time, this Dalit epic can now be read and relished by a global audience.
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'Gabbilam' by Gurram Jashuva.

Yoda Press
Shalimar Books

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