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Shalimar Books

Shalimar Books is the leading distributor of South Asian books in the UK.

 

Established in 1968, our long association with publishers and distributors in India and the UK enables us to provide an extensive range on all subjects, and from a wide range of publishers.

 

We supply books to schools, libraries and bookshops, and directly to the public at our bookshop in London as well as through our website.

 

We also offer a unique collection of fair-trade South Asian art, textiles and handmade craft products at our showroom in Kennington, South London.

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Saraswati: An Observer Best Debut Novel 2025
Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
Broken Threads: My Family from Empire to Independence
I, Phoolan Devi: The Autobiography of India's Bandit Queen
The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom
The Corner Shop: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
Revathi: A Life in Trans Activism
Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War – the instant Sunday Times bestseller
I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist's Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India
Burning My Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman
Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir
Deviants
Asian Britain
My Beloved Life
The Tiger's Share
The Woman Who Climbed Trees: A Novel
Our City That Year
I Remember Abbu
The Idle Stance of the Tippler Pigeon
Brotherless Night
Godzilla and the Song Bird
When We Were Sisters
A History of Burning
The Light at the End of the World
The Year of the Runaways
Rosarita
Leila
The Daughters of Madurai: Heartwrenching yet ultimately uplifting, this incredible debut will make you think
Best of Friends: from the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
Tomb of Sand
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017
The God of Small Things: Winner of the Booker Prize
Sunlight on a Broken Column
The Glass Palace
Bombay Stories
When Memory Dies
Train to Pakistan
Untouchable
Midnight's Children
Shalimar the Clown
Lifting the Veil: With an Introduction by Kamila Shamsie
Brick Lane: By the bestselling author of LOVE MARRIAGE
The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women
Jejuri
The Book of Desire
Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
Modern Bengali Poetry: Desire for Fire
If They Come For Us
Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You
I cannot be good until you say it
Again I Hear These Waters
Layli and Majnun
Third Space: An Anthology of South Asian Poetry
The Architecture of Modern Empire
Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire
Partition Voices: Untold British Stories - Updated for the 75th anniversary of partition
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom
The Exiled: The incredible story of the South Asian exodus from Uganda to the UK in 1972 - longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Cr
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink
Boomerang: How the Afterlife of Empire is Breaking Britain
Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller
Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire
The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World
Both Not Half: 'Few people write about identity with such fluency and sincerity' SATHNAM SANGHERA
The Incarcerations
AZADI: Fascism, Fiction & Freedom in the Time of the Virus
Capitalism: A Ghost Story
How Long Can the Moon Be Caged?: Voices of Indian Political Prisoners
Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel
Age of Anger: A History of the Present
Haramacy: A collection of stories prescribed by voices from the Middle East, South Asia and the diaspora
Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora: Transnational Politics and British Multiculturalism
The Awakening of Indian Women
The Mughal World: India's Tainted Paradise
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
Orientalism
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza’s Youth
The World After Gaza
Why Didn’t I Know? Britain’s Legacy in Palestine
Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Perfect Victims: And The Politics Of Appeal
On Palestine
Footnotes in Gaza
Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel
Rifqa
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: The International Bestseller
Palestine
Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians
Palestinian Cultures Of Resistance: Mahmood Darwash, Fadwa Tuqan, Ghassan Kanafani, Naj Al Ali
What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?
The Blue Between Sky and Water
Minor Detail
Against the Loveless World: Winner of the Palestine Book Award
Behind You is the Sea: The ‘Dazzling’ Debut Novel Exploring Lives of Palestinian Families
Mornings in Jenin: Over a million copies sold - a classic of modern Palestinian writing
Salt Houses
The Coin: Shortlisted for the 2025 Dylan Thomas Prize
Enter Ghost
The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction
Trees For The Absentees
They Fell Like Stars From the Sky & Other Stories
Mother of Strangers: A Novel
The Parisian
East Jerusalem Noir
Forest of Noise
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
A River Dies of Thirst: Diaries
Mural
A Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry
The Butterfly's Burden
We Are Here to Stay