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14/09/2025

Come join us for the last day at .root in Copeland Park in Peckham 📚

We're here until 5 pm

13/09/2025

We're popping up this weekend at Market Root in Peckham 📚

Come find us nestled in amongst amazing art, crafts and food in Copeland Park today and tomorrow!

Tickets and info 👉🏼 .root

17/05/2025

Our pop up at is open ✨

We're here until the 2nd June pretty much every day. Come join us for some good books and enjoy the market while the sun is out ☀️📚

14/05/2025

Are you guys ready for another pop up? 👀

The countdown has started for our next pop up - this time you can find us at by London Fields.

We'll be around for just over 2 weeks so we hope we'll see you there for some great books, great company and radical thought! 📚✨

📍Where? Netil Market, 13-23 Westgate Street, E8 3RL
🗓️When? 17th May to the 2nd June

Save the dates, spread the word, and we hope we'll see you there!

02/05/2025

Modern Sudanese Poetry - Adil Babikir

Spanning more than six decades of Sudan's post-independence history, this collection features work by some of Sudan's most renowned modern poets, largely unknown in the United States. Adil Babikir's extensive introduction provides a conceptual framework to help the English reader understand the cultural context. Translated from Arabic, the collection addresses a wide range of themes-identity, love, politics, Sufism, patriotism, war, and philosophy-capturing the evolution of Sudan's modern history and cultural intersections.

Modern Sudanese Poetry features voices as diverse as the country's ethnic, cultural, and natural composition. By bringing these voices together, Babikir provides a glimpse of Sudan's poetry scene as well as the country's modern history and post-independence trajectory.

You can get your copy of this wonderful collection of poems in the web shop, or browse more on www.asbookshelf.co.uk 📚

[ID: the book ‘Modern Sudanese Poetry’ is lying on a dark brown wooden table background. Next to it is a soft orange bouquet of Chrysanthemums on the top, right corner of the image.]

22/04/2025

After this weekend of protests and civil action to stand up for transgender women and trans rights, we have compiled some reading and resources to continue the work at home.

We will not back down or allow exclusionary feminism to live quietly while openly upholding patriarchal values. There's plenty of civil action that you can start, or continue, with at home to support transgender women. Some of it starts with reading and educating yourself. Some of it means to write to your local MP, and a lot of it will be in your day to day to ensure people around you aren't discriminated against.

You can find copies of the books from the post in our webshop. All resource links are also mentioned in this post.

06/04/2025

That's a wrap on three amazing days at our Pop up. Did I remember to take enough pictures? Unfortunately not. Did everything go according to plan? Also no. But did people still go home with loads of radical books and cute accessories? Yes. Yes they did!

A huge thank you to everyone who popped in and made this weekend absolutely extraordinary. And a huge thank you to friends and family for the support! I'm humbled and ecstatic over the reception my little shop got and I'm already looking forward to the next pop up in May!

04/04/2025

We've opened the doors to our pop up on 198 Hackney Road! Come on in and say hi 👋🏼

31/03/2025

Pretend It’s My Body by Luke Dani Blue is a striking short story collection that blurs the lines between reality and the surreal. These genre-bending tales take you through identity, transformation, and the unexpected ways we search for belonging.

Perfect for fans of speculative fiction, literary short stories, and q***r narratives.You can get a copy of this book in the webshop, link in bio 📚

24/03/2025

We love your old books! Radical, political, and thought provoking literature are always popular and relevant. If you are clearing up some space and don't want to simply throw books away, we'll happily take them off your hands with our Preloved book service! 📚

13/03/2025

📖 New Blog Post! 📖

Assata by Assata Shakur is a gripping memoir of activism, injustice, and resistance. Her story of resisting the state, her upbringing, and her view point of getting through life without compromising her beliefs, remains as powerful and relevant as ever.

Read our book review of her autobiography on the blog, link in bio.

Have you read Assata? Let’s discuss! 👇

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