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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 21 books in this booklist

  • 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 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 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 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 The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
    The Beekeeper of Aleppo - by Christy Lefteri

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781838770013 | ISBN 10: 1838770011

    For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Kite Runner and The Other Hand - a testament to the human powers of survival.  In the midst of war, he found love In the midst of darkness, he found courage In the midst of tragedy, he found hope ... 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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