Refugee Tales

  • Refugee Tales: Volume III
    By David Constantine, Jonathan Skinner, Lisa Appignanesi

    What we hear in these stories are the realities of the hostile environment, the human costs of a system that disregards rights, that denies freedoms and suspends lives. ‘We hear so many of the wrong words about refugees – ugly, limiting ...

  • Refugee Tales: Volume IV
    By Shami Chakrabarti, Bidisha, Robert Macfarlane

    'Leave Solomon here to be a man.' So, Solomon said goodbye to his mother, to a home filled with the smell of her domoda stew with just the right portion of ground nut, her fried chicken, her benachin, and her okra soup.

  • Refugee Tales
    By Marina Lewycka, Chris Cleave, Abdulrazak Gurnah

    Two unaccompanied children travel across the Mediterranean in an overcrowded boat that has been designed to only make it halfway across… A 63-year-old man is woken one morning by border officers ‘acting on a tip-off’ and, despite ...

  • Refugee Tales: Volume II
    By Kamila Shamsie, Jackie Kay, David Herd

    Here, poets and novelists create a space in which the stories of those who have been detained can be safely heard, a space in which hospitality is the prevailing discourse and listening becomes an act of welcome.

  • Refugee Tales
    By Patrick Gale, Gillian Slovo

    Telling the true stories of asylum seekers who've suffered at the hands of Britain's policy of indefinite detention, in the form of a modern-day Canterbury Tales.

  • Refugee Tales
    By David Herd, Anna Pincus

    Refugee Tales