Held every year around World Refugee Day on 20 June, Refugee Week is a nationwide programme of events and activities that recognise the contribution of refugees to British society and the continuing importance of offering sanctuary to those in need. The theme of 2024's campaign is 'our home', inviting everyone to reflect on and celebrate the various ways the meaning of home can be created, whether it's by a sense of safety and warmth, by sharing a space or experiences with loved ones, or caring for the mutual home for us all, Planet Earth.
To mark Refugee Week, we’ve put together a range of reading that raises awareness of the experience of refugees, including thought-provoking true stories, original fiction and inspirational books for children.
Following three Libyans in London, My Friends is a deeply compassionate and eye-opening novel about exile, the price of freedom and the immeasurable value of human connection from the award-winning author of The Return and A Month in Siena.
A tour de force of memoir writing from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, A Man of Two Faces wrestles with the contradictions and confrontation of being both Vietnamese and American in a country so existentially shaped by the legacy of the Vietnam War.
Luminous and moving, Neil Gaiman's poem that explores displacement, loss of home and what we need to feel warm, written in aid of the UN Refugee Agency's appeal, is now available in a beautiful hardback edition boasting illustrations by a group of artists from around the world.
The author of The Return and In the Country of Men discusses his new novel.
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