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Melinda Ham
The Lucky Ones is a moving and meticulously researched book of refugee stories from award-winning journalist and former foreign correspondent Melinda Ham.
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Behrouz Boochani
Written in secrecy on a contraband mobile phone from Manus detention centre by journalist Behrouz Boochani, No Friend but the Mountains became the bestselling, award-winning book of 2018.
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The collected prison writings of Behrouz Boochani, with essays by experts on a wide range of topics from refugees, imprisoned writers and politics
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Alice Pung
Offers a vivid and ironic sense of two worlds. Combines the story of Pung’s life growing up in suburban Footscray, with the inherited stories of the women in her family.
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Anh Do
The laugh-out-loud, reach-for-your-hanky story of one of Australia’s best-loved comedians.
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Safdar Ahmed
An intensely personal indictment of Australia’s refugee detention policies and procedures.
Akuch Kuol Anyieth
A moving, confronting and ultimately uplifting story about a young girl’s escape, with her family, from war-torn South Sudan to Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, and then to Australia.
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
The voices Australia should hear
Jaivet Ealom
The powerful account of how one man escaped the prison of Manus Island. A true story of bravery and resilience.
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Fiona Harari
These are the last adult witnesses - in their own words.
They are our neighbours, ancestors, friends; not a tide or a crisis but a test of our imagination. The stories, essays and poetry in this beautiful anthology bridge cultural divides…
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Habiburahman,Sophie Ansel
For the first time, a Rohingya speaks up to expose the persecution facing his people
Dr Munjed Al Muderis,Patrick Weaver
Munjed’s new book is once more a journey, but this time in taking him across the world on a quest to save others rather than himself.
An anthology of personal essays on the refugee experience from twenty leading refugee writers, edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen, the critically-acclaimed, best-selling author of The Sympathizer.
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Thi Bui
Now in paperback, Thi Sui’s intimate and moving portrait of her family’s journey from their war-torn home in Vietnam to their new lives in America.
