Hajar Press
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Hajar Press is a new independent press that publishes politically-engaged works by writers of colour that often defy easy categorisation, blending fiction, poetry and essay. Lola Olufemi’s Experiments in Imagining Otherwise is already a Bookshop bestseller; discover the rest of their titles below.
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Meditations on treasure and mourning—and why our belongings can matter so deeply.Finalist for the Alice James Book Award 2020, the Omnidawn First/Second Book Prize 2020 & the Philip Levine Poetry Prize 2020. ‘A moving…
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‘An extraordinary book—written with compassion, fearlessness and determination to imagine a more equal world into being. A joy to read and to think with.’ — The New Statesman‘Lola’s writing ... makes me…
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A vital community resource for those who dream of building a just, caring, prison-free society.The fight for prison abolition is a struggle for collective liberation: a transformative vision of a safer world, in which communities live free…
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A vivid, haunting tale of intergenerational trauma and survival under Israeli occupation.A New Arab Book of the Year 2021.The year is 1968. The recent Arab defeat in the Naksa has led to the loss of all of historic Palestine. In the midst…
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Tender yet brutal vignettes on a girlhood in Gaza, Palestine, filled with honey and warmth.A White Review Book of the Year 2021.A Middle East Eye Book of the Year 2021.A New Arab Book of the Year 2021.Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies is…
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Who was that kid in the corner of your eye…?The fovea centralis is a small depression in the retina that produces our sharpest vision. In this keenly perceptive chapbook, Sarah Lasoye ruminates on moments from the playground to the…
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A meditative collection of poems and short stories, contemplating turbulence and repose.Known for their bitter taste, neem leaves have been used for centuries in South Asian traditional medicine. In The Leaf of the Neem Tree, Jamal Mehmood…
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