Palfest Bookshelf: UK subscription

By joining the PalFest Bookshelf you’ll be giving critical support to daring new publishing on Palestine – crucial in this moment of increased censorship.

Subscribers receive 6 books per year – every other month – each with a special extra, along with invitations to book club conversations with authors.

December 2025/January 2026:

Our final selection for 2025 is a novel just published in Australia by Randa Abdel-Fattah, and currently exclusively available outside of Australia via the Bookshelf. With a focus on two of today’s most contested fields, academia and the media, Discipline tallies the price we all pay when those with privilege choose to remain silent. As Israel’s bombardment of Gaza intensifies into the final weeks of Ramadan, academic Ashraf and young journalist Hannah must reckon with their choices, values and places in their communities. Will they be prepared to make sacrifices in the pursuit of what is right?

As a special extra this bundle, we include a Bookshelf-exclusive printing of Abdaljawad Omar’s essay ‘The Anxiety of Liberation.