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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 72 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Wind Knows My Name by Isabelle Allende
    The Wind Knows My Name - by Isabelle Allende

    £18.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526660312 | ISBN 10: 1526660318

    THE POWERFUL AND MOVING NEW NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE   PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR 'A grand storyteller' - KHALED HOSSEINI 'A new novel by Isabel Allende is always a treat' - DAILY MAIL 'What a joy it must be to come upon Allende ... more

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  • Cover image of book Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser
    Scary Monsters - by Michelle de Kretser

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781838953973 | ISBN 10: 1838953973

    *** WINNER OF THE 2023 RATHBONES FOLIO FICTION PRIZE***  ONE OF SLATE’S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2022  ‘Every page of her story feels charged, like an open circuit waiting for its switch; a lurking wallop. It’s magnificent, peerless wri ... more

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  • Cover image of book What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
    What Strange Paradise - by Omar El Akkad

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529069495 | ISBN 10: 1529069491

    ‘Deserves to be an instant classic. I haven’t loved a book this much in a long time... What Strange Paradise... reads as a parable for our times... . Such beautiful writing... This is an extraordinary book.’ – New York Times   From the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bad Immigrant by Sefi Atta
    The Bad Immigrant - by Sefi Atta

    £15.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781623718442 | ISBN 10: 1623718449

    “Atta is unflinching in her portrayal... This is a trenchant and notable take on the immigrant experience.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review   An account of an immigrant family's struggle and the lessons learned about diversity.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Leash And The Ball by Rodaan Al Galidi
    The Leash And The Ball - by Rodaan Al Galidi

    £13.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781912987320 | ISBN 10: 1912987325

    Out the gate and integrate.  After nine years in a Dutch asylum center, Samir finally has the chance to start his new life as a European citizen. But it’s a full-time occupation for him to discover that integration needs a dog leash and a r ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
    The Fortune Men - by Nadifa Mohamed

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241466957 | ISBN 10: 0241466954

    Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families. He is a father, chancer, some-time petty thief. He is many things, in fact, but he is not a murderer ... more

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  • Cover image of book Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
    Transcendent Kingdom - by Yaa Gyasi

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241988657 | ISBN 10: 0241988659

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021.   From the bestselling author of Homegoing.  As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. W ... more

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  • Cover image of book Outrageous Horizon by Adrien Bosc
    Outrageous Horizon - by Adrien Bosc

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788162746 | ISBN 10: 1788162749

    An intellectually star-studded and dreamy document, Outrageous Horizon leads the reader irresistibly along, and leaves a lingering sense of amazement in its wake.  Two hundred and fifty members of a new society, floating, stranded at sea, hea ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Day I Fell Off My Island by Yvonne Bailey-Smith
    The Day I Fell Off My Island - by Yvonne Bailey-Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838386047 | ISBN 10: 1838386041

    Irish Times Books to watch out for in 2021 Sunday Times The five hot new books to read on your post-vax vacation Culture Fly Must-read books for summer Glasgow Herald 25 best books to read this summer  Jamaica, 1968: Erna Mullings’ life ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim
    The Last Story of Mina Lee - by Nancy Jooyoun Kim

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472281616 | ISBN 10: 1472281616

    In 1987, Mina Lee flies from Seoul to Los Angeles to start a new life. Thirty years later, Margot Lee speaks to her mother for the last time.  Between these two moments extends a lifetime of secrets.  These are stories of unexpected loves and de ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Lover
    A Lover's Discourse - by Xiaolu Guo

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529112481 | ISBN 10: 1529112486

    A Chinese woman comes to post-Brexit London to start over - just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch. Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners, she meets a landscape architect and the two begin to build their futur ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hashim & Family by Shahnaz Ahsan
    Hashim & Family - by Shahnaz Ahsan

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781473665255 | ISBN 10: 1473665256

    An Observer Best Book of 2020  It is New Year's Eve, 1960. Hashim has left behind his homeland and his bride, Munira, to seek his fortune in England. His cousin and only friend, Rofikul, introduces Hashim to life in Manchester - including Rof ... more

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  • Cover image of book Correspondents by Tim Murphy
    Correspondents - by Tim Murphy

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529040272 | ISBN 10: 1529040272

    Correspondents by Tim Murphy is a powerful story about the legacy of immigration, the present-day world of refugeehood, the violence that America causes both abroad and at home, and the power of the individual and the family to bring good into a worl ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Don
    I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me - by Juan Pablo Villalobos

    £11.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781911508489 | ISBN 10: 1911508482

    Winner of the 2016 Herralde Prize  The author of Down the Rabbit Hole delivers a hilarious and prize-winning tale of immigrants, students and gangsters in Barcelona.  ‘I don’t expect anyone to believe me,’ warns the narrator of ... more

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  • Cover image of book God 99 by Hassan Blasim
    God 99 - by Hassan Blasim

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781905583775 | ISBN 10: 190558377x

    Chess-playing people-traffickers, suicidal photographers, absurdist sound sculptors, cat-loving rebel sympathisers, murderous storytellers...  The characters in Hassan Blasim’s debut novel are not the inventions of a wild imagination, but real ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
    Lost Children Archive - by Valeria Luiselli

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780008290054 | ISBN 10: 0008290059

    LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019  The moving, powerful and urgent English-language debut from one of the brightest young stars in world literature.  Suppose you and Pa were gone, and we were lost. What would happen then?  ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah
    The Beauty of Your Face - by Sahar Mustafah

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781789559736 | ISBN 10: 1789559731

    Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the principal of Nurrideen School for Girls, a Muslim school in the Chicago suburbs. One morning, a shooter―radicalized by the online alt-right―attacks the school.   As Afaf listens ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dominicana by Angie Cruz
    Dominicana - by Angie Cruz

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529304886 | ISBN 10: 1529304881

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION   'A thrilling, necessary, and unforgettable portrait of what it means to be an immigrant' ~ Patricia Engel  Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Manchester Happened by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
    Manchester Happened - by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786077769 | ISBN 10: 1786077760

    A stunning new story collection from Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, acclaimed author of Kintu and winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2014 and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction 2018.  If there's one thing the characters in Jennifer Mak ... more

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  • Cover image of book Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
    Patsy - by Nicole Dennis-Benn

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786077103 | ISBN 10: 1786077108

    From award-winning novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn comes this beautifully layered portrait of motherhood, immigration and sacrifice A TIME MAGAZINE 'MUST READ BOOK OF 2019'  LONGLISTED FOR A PEN/FAULKNER AWARD 2020   Patsy yearns to es ... more

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  • Cover image of book Two Blankets, Three Sheets by Jonathan Reeder
    Two Blankets, Three Sheets - by Jonathan Reeder

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912987023 | ISBN 10: 1912987023

    A humorous account of a nine-year wait.  Amsterdam Airport, 1998. Samir Karim steps off a plane from Vietnam, flushes his fake passport down the toilet, and requests asylum. Fleeing Iraq to avoid conscription into Saddam Hussein’s army, he has ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Hostel Life by Melatu Uche Okorie
    This Hostel Life - by Melatu Uche Okorie

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780349012902 | ISBN 10: 0349012903

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR  This Hostel Life tells the stories of migrant women in a hidden Ireland. From a day in the life of women queuing for basic supplies in an Irish direct prov ... more

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  • Cover image of book Travellers by Helon Habila
    Travellers - by Helon Habila

    £12.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241394502 | ISBN 10: 0241394503

    "Once I started reading Travellers, I couldn't stop. With power and control, it plunges the reader into a maze of lives that crisscross between Africa and Europe. Refugees and not only refugees hungering for the north, pushing their way through the b ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs
    How to Love a Jamaican - by Alexia Arthurs

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781509883622 | ISBN 10: 1509883622

    "In this thrilling debut collection Alexia Arthurs is all too easy to love."(Zadie Smith) Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret – these are the tensions at the heart of Alexia Arthurs’ debut book about Jamaican im ... more

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  • Cover image of book From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan
    From a Low and Quiet Sea - by Donal Ryan

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784160265 | ISBN 10: 1784160261

    ***LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018*** ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2018***   Farouk’s country has been torn apart by war.  Lampy’s heart has been laid waste by Chloe.  John’s past torments him as ... more

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  • Cover image of book Happiness by Aminatta Forna
    Happiness - by Aminatta Forna

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781408893289 | ISBN 10: 1408893282

    Waterloo Bridge, London. Two strangers collide. Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist, and Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes. From this chance encounter in the midst of the rush of a great city, numerous moments of connections span out a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The One Who Wrote Destiny by Nikesh Shukla
    The One Who Wrote Destiny - by Nikesh Shukla

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786492807 | ISBN 10: 1786492806

    Guardian‘s Best Summer Books 2018  “A beautiful, brilliant modern classic.” Sabrina Mahfouz, Guardian   Mukesh has just moved from Kenya to the drizzly northern town of Keighley. He was expecting fame, fortune, the Rolling Stones and a n ... more

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  • Cover image of book Silence is My Mother Tongue by Sulaiman Addonia
    Silence is My Mother Tongue - by Sulaiman Addonia

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781999683320 | ISBN 10: 1999683323

    A searing novel of love, judgement and sacrifice and the powerful bonds forged in the crucible of refugee camp life from an internationally-acclaimed writer.   Saba, the novel’s heroine, arrives in an East African refugee camp as a young gi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dalila by Jason Donald
    Dalila - by Jason Donald

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784702984 | ISBN 10: 1784702986

    Irene Dalila Mwathi comes from Kenya with a brutally violent personal history. Once she wanted to be a journalist, now all she wants is to be safe. When she finally arrives, bewildered, in London, she is attacked by the very people paid to protect he ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang
    Sour Heart - by Jenny Zhang

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408892374 | ISBN 10: 1408892375

    Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction A Guardian, Nylon, Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan, Vulture and Shelf Awareness Book of the Year 2017  Centred on a community of immigrants precariously balanced on the edge of poverty in 19 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini, illustrated by Dan Williams
    Sea Prayer - by Khaled Hosseini, illustrated by Dan Williams

    £12.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781526602718 | ISBN 10: 1526602717

    My dear Marwan, I look at your profile in the glow of this moon, my boy, your eyelashes like calligraphy, closed in guileless sleep. And I say to you, 'Hold my hand. Nothing bad will happen.'   A deeply moving, gorgeously illustrated short wo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
    Go, Went, Gone - by Jenny Erpenbeck

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781846276224 | ISBN 10: 1846276225

    Translated by Susan Bernofsky.  One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue.  Richard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas, but now he is retired, hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Refuge by Dina Nayeri
    Refuge - by Dina Nayeri

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780399573255 | ISBN 10: 0399573259

    The moving lifetime relationship between a father and a daughter, seen through the prism of global immigration and the contemporary refugee experience.   An Iranian girl escapes to America as a child, but her father stays behind. Over twenty y ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shatila Stories by Various authors
    Shatila Stories - by Various authors

    £12.00   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781908670489 | ISBN 10: 1908670487

    Peirene Press donate 50p of each sale and all profits of this book to the Lebanese NGO Basmeh & Zeitooneh - www.basmeh-zeitooneh.org   Most novels are written by professional writers using second hand material. Not this one. Peirene commissio ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Good Country by Laleh Khadivi
    A Good Country - by Laleh Khadivi

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408876039 | ISBN 10: 1408876035

    The powerful, moving story of a California teenager from an immigrant family who, finding himself in an increasingly hostile world, is turned from a carefree surfer's life towards a culture of fear and fanaticism.   Laguna Beach, California, 2 ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Greek Wall by Nicolas Verdan
    The Greek Wall - by Nicolas Verdan

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781908524850 | ISBN 10: 1908524855

    A severed head is found on the Greek border near a wall planned to stop Middle Eastern immigrants crossing from Turkey.  The novel is based on the true story of a ten mile wall built in 2012 to put an end to illegal immigration flooding int ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Boat People by Sharon Bala
    The Boat People - by Sharon Bala

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780385544023 | ISBN 10: 0385544022

    Globe and Mail bestseller, The Boat People is an extraordinary novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage only to face the threat of deportation amid accusations of terrorism.   When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan an ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
    The Refugees - by Viet Thanh Nguyen

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781472153784 | ISBN 10: 1472153782

    The Refugees is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family.  In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Refugee Tales: Volume II by David Herd  & Anna Pincus (Editors)
    Refugee Tales: Volume II - by David Herd & Anna Pincus (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910974308 | ISBN 10: 1910974307

    Featuring Caroline Bergvall, Josh Cohen, Ian Duhig, Rachel Holmes, Jackie Kay, Olivia Laing, Helen Macdonald, Neel Mukherjee, Alex Preston, Kamila Shamsie & Marina Warner  Upon changing his religion, a young man is denounced as an apostate an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
    Exit West - by Mohsin Hamid

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241979068 | ISBN 10: 0241979064

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017  *One of Barack Obama's top ten books of 2017*  The Times Top 10 Bestseller Guardian Top 10 Bestseller The New York Times Top 5 Bestseller   Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2018 and finalist for ... more

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  • Cover image of book Out of Silence by Annie Try
    Out of Silence - by Annie Try

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781909728660 | ISBN 10: 1909728667

    Jaded Clinical Psychologist Dr Mike Lewis is on the edge. Separated from his wife, Ella, and deeply wounded by the death of their child, the future is bleak. But when he is assigned the case of mute asylum seeker ‘Johnny Two’, things begin to cha ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Gurugu Pledge by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
    The Gurugu Pledge - by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel

    £10.00   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781908276940 | ISBN 10: 1908276940

    On Mount Gurugu, overlooking the Spanish enclave of Melilla on the North African coast, desperate migrants gather before attempting to scale the city’s walls and gain asylum on European soil.  Inspired by first-hand accounts, Juan Tomás Ávil ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan by Ruth Gilligan
    Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan - by Ruth Gilligan

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782398592 | ISBN 10: 1782398597

    1901. Cork can sound very similar to New York to foreign ears and tired brains, so it’s no surprise that Ruth’s family – Jewish refugees fleeing the European pogroms – mistakenly disembark from their boat to America a few stops and a few coun ... more

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  • Cover image of book Someone Always Robs the Poor by Carl MacDougall
    Someone Always Robs the Poor - by Carl MacDougall

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911332138 | ISBN 10: 1911332139

    A long-awaited new collection of stories from one of Scotland’s most acclaimed writers.   A young man returns from London, facing the prospect of reunion with a young daughter he’s never met. A woman recounts her family’s doomed attempt ... more

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  • Cover image of book Refugee Tales by David Herd & Anna Pincus (Editors)
    Refugee Tales - by David Herd & Anna Pincus (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910974230 | ISBN 10: 1910974234

    Featuring Patience Agbabi, Jade Amoli-Jackson, Chris Cleave, Stephen Collis, Inua Ellams, Abdulrazak Gurnah, David Herd, Marina Lewycka, Avaes Mohammad, Hubert Moore, Ali Smith, Dragan Todorovic, Carol Watts & Michael Zand.   Two unaccompanied ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Country of Refuge: An Anthology of Writing on Asylum Seekers by Lucy Popescu (Editor)
    A Country of Refuge: An Anthology of Writing on Asylum Seekers - by Lucy Popescu (Editor)

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783522682 | ISBN 10: 1783522682

    A Country of Refuge is a poignant, thought-provoking and timely anthology of writing on asylum seekers from some of Britain and Irelands most influential voices.   Compiled and edited by human rights activist and writer Lucy Popescu, this pow ... more

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  • Cover image of book Little Warrior by Giuseppe Catozzella
    Little Warrior - by Giuseppe Catozzella

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571322688 | ISBN 10: 0571322689

    A heartbreaking novel, inspired by a true story, about a Somali girl who is willing to sacrifice everything to fulfill her dream of becoming a champion runner.   Little Warrior is based on the life of Samia Omar, a girl who grows up in war-tor ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician by Tendai Huchu
    The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician - by Tendai Huchu

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910409985 | ISBN 10: 1910409987

    Three very different men struggle with thoughts of belonging, loss, identity and love as they attempt to find a place for themselves in Britain.   The Magistrate tries to create new memories and roots, fusing a wandering exploration of Edinbu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Over Land, Over Sea: Poems for Those Seeking Refuge by Kathleen Bell, Emma Lee and Siobhan Logan (Editors)
    Over Land, Over Sea: Poems for Those Seeking Refuge - by Kathleen Bell, Emma Lee and Siobhan Logan (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910170281 | ISBN 10: 1910170283

    An anthology of 102 poems expressing solidarity with the refugees who are currently receiving so little welcome as they take to boats and rafts to cross the Mediterranean and make their way with difficulty through Europe. Readers are invited to take ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Thrill of it All by Joseph O
    The Thrill of it All - by Joseph O'Connor

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099481539 | ISBN 10: 0099481537

    A captivating novel filled with music, friendship and teenage dreams, from the bestselling author of Ghost Light and Star of the Sea.  At college in 1980s Luton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets the elusive Fran Mulvey, an orpha ... more

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  • Cover image of book Princess Bari by Hwang Sok-yong
    Princess Bari - by Hwang Sok-yong

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781859641743 | ISBN 10: 1859641741

    In a drab North Korean city, a seventh daughter is born to a couple longing for a son. Abandoned hours after her birth, she is eventually rescued by her grandmother. The old woman names the child Bari, after a legend telling of a forsaken princess wh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Honour by Elif Shafak
    Honour - by Elif Shafak

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241972946 | ISBN 10: 0241972949

    From the Orange Prize long-listed and award-winning author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Bastard of Istanbul Elif Shafak, Honour is a novel of love, betrayal and a clash of cultures. 'My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
    Pigeon English - by Stephen Kelman

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408866597 | ISBN 10: 1408866595

    Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on an inner-city housing estate. The second best runner in the whole of Year 7, Harri races through his new life in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
    Everything I Never Told You - by Celeste Ng

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780349134284 | ISBN 10: 0349134286

    "There is much here that might impress Pulitzer and Man Booker judges... Ng brilliantly depicts the destruction that parents can inflict on their children and on each other"(Mark Lawson, Guardian) Lydia is the favourite child of Marilyn and James ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Good Children by Roopa Farooki
    The Good Children - by Roopa Farooki

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780755383443 | ISBN 10: 0755383443

    From the twice Orange Prize Longlisted author of Bitter Sweets and The Flying Man. Perfect for any reader of Jhumpa Lahiri and Khamila Shamsie.   Leaving home is one thing. Surviving is another.   1940s Lahore, the Punjab. Two brother ... more

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  • Cover image of book Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
    Five Star Billionaire - by Tash Aw

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780007494187 | ISBN 10: 0007494181

    Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, the overlapping lives of five newcomers to Chinas most dynamic city are the subject of this kaleidoscopic novel.   Welcome to Shanghai. A restless metropolis where old traditions collide with new ambi ... more

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  • Cover image of book This is Where I Am by Karen Campbell
    This is Where I Am - by Karen Campbell

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408832738 | ISBN 10: 1408832739

    When recently widowed Deborah Maxwell is assigned by the Scottish Refugee Council to act as mentor to Abdi Hassan, a Somali refugee, the two are drawn into an awkward friendship. They must spend a year together, meeting once a month in different part ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Shadow Girls by Henning Mankell
    The Shadow Girls - by Henning Mankell

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099455486 | ISBN 10: 009945548x

    The inspirational tale of a writer who finds himself caught up in the extraordinary stories of three young immigrant girls in Sweden by the 'Swedish John le Carre', Henning Mankell.  Tea-Bag, a young Nigerian girl, has fled a refugee camp in Sp ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brooklyn Heights by Miral al-Tahawy
    Brooklyn Heights - by Miral al-Tahawy

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571280056 | ISBN 10: 0571280056

    A novel of displacement and discovery from one of Egypt's most exciting new voices.   Hend, an Arabic teacher and would-be writer in her late thirties, emigrates to the United States from Cairo with her eight-year-old son after the painful bre ... more

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  • Cover image of book Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye, translated by John Fletcher
    Three Strong Women - by Marie NDiaye, translated by John Fletcher

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857051073 | ISBN 10: 0857051075

    Three women who almost had it all...  Norah thinks she has made it when she qualifies as a lawyer in Paris; Fanta works her way into a prestigious teaching job in her home city; Khady runs a cafe with her loving husband now all she wants is ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ru by Kim Thuy
    Ru - by Kim Thuy

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846685484 | ISBN 10: 1846685486

    A book of rare beauty: Ru is a lullaby of Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland.   Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow - of tears, blood, and money. Kim Thuy's Ru is literature a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Registrar
    The Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages - by Sophie Hardach

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781849832939 | ISBN 10: 1849832935

    Swimming for his life towards traffickers on the Italian shore, Selim enters a world where Kurdish refugees disguise themselves as tomatoes, dates of birth are a matter of opinion, and a residency permit is a ticket to paradise. When he ends up in a ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the Sea There are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda
    In the Sea There are Crocodiles - by Fabio Geda

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099555452 | ISBN 10: 009955545x

    A bestseller in Italy, a beautiful, heartbreaking novel based on the true story of an Afghan boys journey in search of safety. Recommended by PEN One night before putting him to bed, Enaiatollahs mother tells him three things: do ... more

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  • Cover image of book Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka
    Two Caravans - by Marina Lewycka

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780241961841 | ISBN 10: 024196184x

    An idyll of the English countryside: a beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field, and around their two caravans a little group of strawberry pickers is getting ready to celebrate a birthday.  But who picks our strawberries these days? The U ... more

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  • Cover image of book South of South by Nii Ayikwei Parkes
    South of South - by Nii Ayikwei Parkes

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781845231545 | ISBN 10: 1845231546

    Most migrants arrive at their destinations by a combination of serendipity and choicelessness. This has been Nii Parkes own experience. The question how did you arrive here? is always answered with a convoluted mix of myth, love, family ties, bu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Not Safe by Danuta Reah
    Not Safe - by Danuta Reah

    £4.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781907869099 | ISBN 10: 1907869093

    Farah Jafari needs sanctuary, but now she is dead. A man is in custody and soon the case will be closed. DC Tina Barraclough works with refugees like Farah and the man under arrest and she knows there is something wrong with the official version. She ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Swimmer by Roma Tearne
    The Swimmer - by Roma Tearne

    £10.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007301591 | ISBN 10: 0007301596

    A gripping, captivating novel about love, loss and what home really means.  Forty-three year old Ria is used to being alone. As a child, her life changed forever with the death of her beloved father and since then, she has struggled to find l ... more

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  • Cover image of book Harare North by Brian Chikwava
    Harare North - by Brian Chikwava

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099526759 | ISBN 10: 0099526751

    When he lands in Harare North, our unnamed protagonist carries nothing but a cardboard suitcase full of memories and an email address for his childhood friend, Shingi. Finessing his way through immigration, he spends a few restless weeks as the very ... more

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  • Cover image of book Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
    Unaccustomed Earth - by Jhumpa Lahiri

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747596592 | ISBN 10: 074759659x

    The Number One New York Times bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake.  Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book.  Beginning in America, and spilling back over m ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Arrival by Shaun Tan
    The Arrival - by Shaun Tan

    £22.99   hardback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780340969939 | ISBN 10: 0340969938

    What drives so many to leave everything behind and journey alone to a mysterious country, a place without family or friends, where everything is nameless and the future is unknown? This silent graphic novel is the story of every migrant, every refug ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Silver Throat of the Moon: Writing in Exile by Jennifer Langer
    The Silver Throat of the Moon: Writing in Exile - by Jennifer Langer

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780907123651 | ISBN 10: 0907123651

    Refugees and asylum seekers are rarely out of the headlines, or political debate, but only rarely do people in exile have the opportunity to speak for themselves.  The Silver Throat of the Moon includes prose and poetry from writers originating ... more

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  • Cover image of book Small Island by Andrea Levy
    Small Island - by Andrea Levy

    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780755307500 | ISBN 10: 075530750x

    Queenie Bligh's neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but with her husband, Bernard, not back from the war, what else can she do?  Gilbert Joseph was one of the several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF t ... more

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