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14/09/2026

09/09/2026

In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people—Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs—were in flight. By the time the monsoon broke, almost a million of them were dead, and all of northern India was in arms, in terror, or in hiding. The only remaining oases of peace were a scatter of little villages lost in the remote reaches of the frontier. One of these villages was Mano Majra.
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It is a place where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in peace for hundreds of years. Then one day, at the end of the summer, the “ghost train” arrives, a silent, incredible funeral train loaded with the bodies of thousands of refugees, bringing the village its first taste of the horrors of the civil war.
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'Train to Pakistan' is the story of this isolated village that is plunged into the abyss of religious hate. It is also the story of a Sikh boy and a Muslim girl whose love endured and transcends the ravages of war.
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'Train to Pakistan' by Kushwant Singh.

Penguin Books
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04/09/2026

An impassioned manifesto from the author of Booker-winner God of Small Things, one of the most vocal campaigners in the world

In 'Capitalism: A Ghost Story', Arundhati Roy examines the dark side of Indian democracy - a nation of 1.2 billion, where the country' s 100 richest people own assets worth one quarter of India’s gross domestic product.
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Ferocious and clear-sighted, this is a searing portrait of a nation haunted by ghosts: the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed su***de to escape punishing debt; the hundreds of millions who live on less than two dollars a day.
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It is the story of how the largest democracy in the world, with over 800 million voting in the last election, answers to the demands of globalized capitalism, subjecting millions of people to inequality and exploitation. Roy shows how the mega-corporations, modern robber barons plundering India’s natural resources, use brute force, as well as a wide range of NGOs and foundations, to sway government and policy making in India.
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02/09/2026

A quick of recent UK stock titles at Shalimar Books! 📚 💜 😃

A wide range of subject areas represented here, from politics, partition and Palestine to history, poetry and fiction, we have you covered. 🙂📚

Open Monday-Saturday 11.30 to 6pm 🕜

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02/09/2026

Kalki Divekar grows up a daughter of Kingston—a city the British built on the ashes of Bombay. The older generation, including her father, have been lost to the brutal hunt for rebels. Young men are drafted to fight wars they will never return from. And the people of her city are more interested in fighting each other than facing their true oppressors.
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When tragedy strikes close to home, Kalki and her group of friends begin to play a dangerous game, obtaining jobs working for the British while secretly planning to destroy the empire from the inside out.
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Told as ten moments from Kalki’s life that mirror the Dashavatara, the ten avatars of Vishnu, 'Ten Incarnations of Rebellion' is a sweeping, deeply felt speculative novel of empowerment, friendship, self-determination, and the true meaning of freedom.
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'Ten Incarnations of Rebellion' by Vaishnavi Patel.

Random House Publishing Group
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18/08/2026

Aliya lives a life confined to the inner courtyard of her home with her older sister and irritable mother, while the men of the family throw themselves into the political movements of the day. She is tormented by the petty squabbles of the household and dreams of educating herself and venturing into the wider world. But Aliya must endure many trials before she achieves her goals, though at what personal cost?
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Set in the 1940s, with Partition looming on the horizon, 'The Women's Courtyard' cleverly brings into focus the claustrophobic lives of women whose entire existence was circumscribed by the four walls of their homes, and for whom the outside world remained an inaccessible dream.
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Daisy Rockwell's elegant and nuanced translation captures the poignance and power of Khadija Mastur's inimitable voice.
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'The Women's Courtyard' by Khadija Mastur.

Penguin Classics
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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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Sabba Khan

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