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Choose Love

10 Writers and Refugees on Kindness in Contemporary Britain

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Choose Love

By: Choose Love, Inua Ellams — Editor
Narrated by: Inua Ellams, Emma Stevenson, Anni Domingo, Diana Yekinni, Arnold Oceng, Sara Masry, Ammar Haj Ahmad, Mohamed Elsandel, Sofia Asir, Anna-Maria Nabirye, Yusra Warsama
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Summary

Ten extraordinary stories from asylum seekers and refugees
Told to ten acclaimed writers
One powerful testament to what happens when we choose love

Across the globe, more than 117 million people have been forced from their homes by conflict and crisis. Behind that vast number are individual lives: families uprooted, futures interrupted, journeys of unimaginable courage. In a time of hardening borders and deepening division, the charity Choose Love was founded to support and provide humanitarian aid to those in need.

In this powerful anthology, ten acclaimed writers are paired with ten people who have experienced displacement and the UK asylum system, working together to tell stories of resilience, humanity and hope. From unexpected friendships to life-changing encounters, these pieces explore the pivotal moments when love was transformed into action – when it became shelter, solidarity, courage and friendship.

Tender, urgent and profoundly humane, this book reveals the extraordinary force of ordinary kindness. It is a testament to the enduring human spirit and a call to recognise one another not as strangers, but as neighbours.

Choose Love features work by Yomi Adegoke, Inua Ellams, Guy Gunaratne, Sabrina Mahfouz, Dawn O’Porter, Bohdan Piasecki, Max Porter, Monika Radojevic, Nikesh Shukla and Tania Tay.

'A beautiful and important book' OLIVIA COLMAN
'Deeply moving' NICOLA COUGHLAN
'Extraordinary' DEBORAH FRANCES-WHITE
'Essential' CAROLINE LUCAS
'Hopeful and enlightening' CECILE PIN

© Choose Love 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026

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Critic Reviews

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.
A deeply moving reminder that compassion is a choice - and that choosing love can change everything.
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
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
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
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.
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