Shalimar Books
@shalimarbooks.bsky.social
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
Open Monday-Saturday 11.30 to 6pm
@shalimarbooks.bsky.social
www.indianbooksuk.com
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Shalimar Books
@shalimarbooks.bsky.social
· Mar 28
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 📍
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 📍
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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
📚💜
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
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
📚💜
This is some of the most beautiful poetry in the world … Timeless.’—Tracy Emin
'Classical Poems by Arab Women'
@saqibooks.bsky.social
#booksky #books
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An urgent and necessary reckoning with what it means to live in the West today.
🌎
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
🌎
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
An urgent and necessary reckoning with what it means to live in the West today.
🌎
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
🌎
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
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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
❤️
'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
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
❤️
'Mother Mary Comes To Me' by Arundhati Roy.
@randomhouse.bsky.social
www.indianbooksuk.com
📚 Bookshop.org:
uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar
#ArundhatiRoy #Memoir #Booksky
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Great South Asian #fiction titles in this stock #bookpile at Shalimar Books! 🙂📚❤️
These books are published in the UK, so you should be able to find them widely. However, the reality is you can't!
🤔📚
Yet another good reason to come and visit London's leading South Asian book specialist!
🤗📚💜
These books are published in the UK, so you should be able to find them widely. However, the reality is you can't!
🤔📚
Yet another good reason to come and visit London's leading South Asian book specialist!
🤗📚💜
December 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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In this contemporary murder mystery, an estranged mother and daughter urgently need to reconnect and navigate a world of Sufi story traditions to catch a killer, and to save each other.
📚💜
'The Sufi Storyteller' by Faiqa Mansab.
@neemtreepress.bsky.social
#booksky #Sufi #stories
📚💜
'The Sufi Storyteller' by Faiqa Mansab.
@neemtreepress.bsky.social
#booksky #Sufi #stories
December 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
In this contemporary murder mystery, an estranged mother and daughter urgently need to reconnect and navigate a world of Sufi story traditions to catch a killer, and to save each other.
📚💜
'The Sufi Storyteller' by Faiqa Mansab.
@neemtreepress.bsky.social
#booksky #Sufi #stories
📚💜
'The Sufi Storyteller' by Faiqa Mansab.
@neemtreepress.bsky.social
#booksky #Sufi #stories
In this contemporary murder mystery, an estranged mother and daughter urgently need to reconnect and navigate a world of Sufi story traditions to catch a killer, and to save each other.
📚💜
'The Sufi Storyteller' by Faiqa Mansab.
@neemtreepress.bsky.social
#booksky #Sufi #stories
📚💜
'The Sufi Storyteller' by Faiqa Mansab.
@neemtreepress.bsky.social
#booksky #Sufi #stories
December 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
In this contemporary murder mystery, an estranged mother and daughter urgently need to reconnect and navigate a world of Sufi story traditions to catch a killer, and to save each other.
📚💜
'The Sufi Storyteller' by Faiqa Mansab.
@neemtreepress.bsky.social
#booksky #Sufi #stories
📚💜
'The Sufi Storyteller' by Faiqa Mansab.
@neemtreepress.bsky.social
#booksky #Sufi #stories
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'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
'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
'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
'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
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Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking work on the formation of the State of Israel.
Indispensable for anyone interested in the current crisis in the Middle East.
📚🍉
'Ilan Pappe is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.' JOHN PILGER
#booksky #books
Indispensable for anyone interested in the current crisis in the Middle East.
📚🍉
'Ilan Pappe is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.' JOHN PILGER
#booksky #books
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Great South Asian #fiction titles in this stock #bookpile at Shalimar Books! 🙂📚❤️
These books are published in the UK, so you should be able to find them widely. However, the reality is you can't!
🤔📚
Yet another good reason to come and visit London's leading South Asian book specialist!
🤗📚💜
These books are published in the UK, so you should be able to find them widely. However, the reality is you can't!
🤔📚
Yet another good reason to come and visit London's leading South Asian book specialist!
🤗📚💜
December 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking work on the formation of the State of Israel.
Indispensable for anyone interested in the current crisis in the Middle East.
📚🍉
'Ilan Pappe is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.' JOHN PILGER
#booksky #books
Indispensable for anyone interested in the current crisis in the Middle East.
📚🍉
'Ilan Pappe is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.' JOHN PILGER
#booksky #books
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
'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
'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
'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
'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
Reposted by Shalimar Books
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 📍
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
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 📍
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 📍
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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
Featuring titles on #politics, #history, #caste, #Palestine and #SouthAsianfiction 📚🙂❤
www.indianbooksuk.com
#booksky #bookstack
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 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
Featuring titles on #politics, #history, #caste, #Palestine and #SouthAsianfiction 📚🙂❤
www.indianbooksuk.com
#booksky #bookstack
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'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
🍉
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
'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
🍉
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
'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
🍉
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
'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
🍉
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
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
Featuring titles on #politics, #history, #caste, #Palestine and #SouthAsianfiction 📚🙂❤
www.indianbooksuk.com
#booksky #bookstack
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 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
Featuring titles on #politics, #history, #caste, #Palestine and #SouthAsianfiction 📚🙂❤
www.indianbooksuk.com
#booksky #bookstack
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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
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
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
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
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
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
✴️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: shalimarbooks@gmail.com
We will be back open from 3rd November
www.indianbooksuk.com
Bookshop.org
uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar
For enquiries, you can still get in touch with us here:
Email: shalimarbooks@gmail.com
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
✴️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: shalimarbooks@gmail.com
We will be back open from 3rd November
www.indianbooksuk.com
Bookshop.org
uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar
For enquiries, you can still get in touch with us here:
Email: shalimarbooks@gmail.com
We will be back open from 3rd November
www.indianbooksuk.com
Bookshop.org
uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
“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
'Here, day and night were interchangeable. The immaculately dressed Chowringhee, radiant in her youth, had just stepped on to the floor at the nightclub.'
📚🏨
Set in 1950s Calcutta, 'Chowringhee' reveals an irresistible vision of a lost metropolis, a homage to an old India of myth and memory.
📚📚🏨
📚🏨
Set in 1950s Calcutta, 'Chowringhee' reveals an irresistible vision of a lost metropolis, a homage to an old India of myth and memory.
📚📚🏨
October 1, 2025 at 10:59 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.'
📚🏨
Set in 1950s Calcutta, 'Chowringhee' reveals an irresistible vision of a lost metropolis, a homage to an old India of myth and memory.
📚📚🏨
📚🏨
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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'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
📚👑
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
'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
📚👑
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
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
📚💜
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
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
📚💜
This is some of the most beautiful poetry in the world … Timeless.’—Tracy Emin
'Classical Poems by Arab Women'
@saqibooks.bsky.social
#booksky #books