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Choose Love
  • Published: 12 November 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804957264
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Audio Download
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Choose Love

10 Writers and Refugees on Kindness in Contemporary Britain

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12 Dec 2026
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12 Nov 2026
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12 Nov 2026
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An inspiring meditation on migration and kindness, featuring real-life stories written in collaboration with ten generational talents, including Max Porter, Yomi Adegoke and Guy Gunaratne.

Across the globe, over 122 million people have been displaced. In a world increasingly divided by borders and nationality, the charity Choose Love was founded to support and provide humanitarian aid to those in need.

In this powerful collection, ten acclaimed writers speak to people who have experienced displacement and the UK asylum system, reflecting on pivotal moments in their lives when love was transformed into action. From unexpected friendships to life-changing encounters, these stories reveal the profound impact simple acts of kindness can have on those trying to make a home in a new land. Each one is a testament to the enduring human spirit.

Edited by Inua Ellams, and featuring work by Yomi Adegoke, Guy Gunaratne, Sabrina Mahfouz, Dawn O'Porter, Bohdan Piasecki, Max Porter, Monika Radojevic, Nikesh Shukla and Tania Tay.
  • Published: 12 November 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804957264
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Audio Download
Categories:

About the author

Choose Love

Choose Love supports displaced people around the world. From a hot meal to community support for vulnerable groups, they work with grassroots organisations to make sure that people who’ve been displaced from their homes have what they need. Inua Ellams is an award-winning poet, playwright and curator. Identity, displacement and destiny are reoccurring themes in his work in which he mixes the old with the new, traditional with the contemporary.
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Praise for Choose Love

This is a beautiful, moving and deeply important book. It asks us to look at one another with compassion and to remember that choosing love isn't an abstract idea – it's something we do, every day, in the way we treat each other. Read it, share it and let it stay with you.

Olivia Colman

A heartfelt anthology of extraordinary stories... A book you can dip in and out of that will remind you of the never-ending triumph of the human spirit in the face of adversity

Deborah Frances-White, author of The Guilty Feminist

This is not only a beautiful and uplifting book, but one that reminds us of the power of taking action, however big or small, to help someone or welcome someone. A vital and moving reminder of how in dark times, ordinary people choose to light a candle, and of how much that means.

Zoe Gardner, commentator on UK immigration and asylum policy

A hopeful and enlightening reminder of the power each of us holds to choose kindness in our everyday lives -- and of the life-changing effect that choice can have on others

Cecile Pin, author of Wandering Souls

Unflinching in its moral clarity and compelling in its powerful storytelling, this book is an essential reminder of the resilience of the human spirit, the courage and creativity that can be found in the hardest times and, above all, the power and importance of kindness as a radical act of resistance

Caroline Lucas