The best new books on Palestine, straight to your door.
There has never been as much work on Palestine published in English as there is today.
The PalFest Bookshelf is a curated subscription that delivers key books, along with bespoke extras, straight to your door.
Subscribers receive six shipments a year – every other month, with book club conversations – both online and irl – offered in the months in-between.
Bookshelf members give critical support to daring new publishing on Palestine – crucial in this moment of increased censorship.
August & September 2025
The August/September Bookshelf bundle includes two short but powerful books.
48kg is the debut poetry collection from Batool Abu Akleen, a Palestinian poet and translator from Gaza City. 48kg is a bilingual assembly of forty-eight poems. Each work accounts for a single kilogram; a body’s mass; a testament to a sieged city; a vivid and visceral voicing of the personal and the public in the midsts of unspeakable violence.
Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine by Adam Hanieh, Rob Knox and Rafeef Ziadah is a succinct and far-reaching critique of the socio-economic and political forces that sustain the Israeli settler-colonial project. An essential introduction for anyone looking to understand what Palestine reveals about the world – and what it demands of us today.
Past Bundles
“This curation of books on Palestine and ongoing conversations with writers is such a great idea. An invaluable resource to guide our thinking and to connect us to one another.”
““The Palestine Festival of Literature does the important work of connecting writers of all backgrounds with the land and people of Palestine. This latest project - a curated collection of works by some of our most preeminent Palestinian writers – is an extension of that undertaking. It continues their mission of marrying the great power of literature with the great fight of our time: the eradication of apartheid in general, and the freedom of Palestinians in particular. This is a much needed effort from one of the preeminent literary organizations of our time.””
““What a necessary and timely gift to all of us! The PalFest Bookshelf features a curated selection of urgent and beautiful books written by some of the most talented writers, and sends them directly to you. It feels like a ray of hope.””
““Given the constraints of time how to choose between all the books about Palestine that are out in the world? Enter the good people of PalFest whose qualities of political wisdom, emotional intelligence, reliability and very good taste make them the perfect candidates to do the choosing for you. And given their reach and creative flair the ‘bonus features’ are likely to be extraordinary. Sign me up.””