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We publish work in many different genres: long and short fiction, memoir and other non-fiction, anthologies, poetry collections and pamphlets. This page shows all our books about Human Rights, especially those by or about
Refugees, in reverse chronological order. There are books here too on #Black Lives Matter and about issues in the Third World that are driving the refugee crisis like famine, poverty and conflict.
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Book Bundle - Migration
Containing We Will Fly Higher by Parwana Amiri on the human rights challenges of life in a refugee camp on Lesvos;
From Glasgow to Damascus by David Forrest, a pamphlet of poems and stories inspired by Syrians living in Glasgow; and
Federal Gods by Clare Saponia, on refugees who risked their lives to reach safety in Europe, only to encounter new conflicts on arrival.
Buying the three together will cost £21.98 plus postage, a saving of 20% on their individual costs.
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Book Bundle - Human Rights
Containing Algiers - The Poet's Garden, a radical short story collection by exiled journalist, Adel Guemar;
The Truth at the End of the Night by Malka Al-Haddad, on surviving the UK asylum process; and
Secret Love Letters - Poland 1982, a pamphlet of poetry and prose by Anna Maria and Tomasz Mickiewicz,
lovers during Martial Law in Poland and both involved in resistance movements.
Buying the three together will cost £21.98 plus postage, a saving of 20% on their individual costs.
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Hyphenated Lives
T K Sebastian's poignant mixed-genre historical verse novel incorporating family stories, historical documents, archival photographs and scholarly research about the massacre
and forced conversion of Armenians in Turkey early in the 20th Century. The author hopes to bring these tragic events into the light and avoid so many violent deaths going
unremarked or misunderstood. Significantly, the book begins with a quote from Milan Kundera: "The struggle of men against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."
Hyphenated Lives will launch early in 2024 in London. You can order an advance copy from this page for £10.99 plus postage.
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The Truth at the End of the Night
Malka Al-Haddad grew up during the Iran-Iraq war and lost several close family members during the first Gulf War and American invasion in 2003. She became a poet and a human rights advocate,
which attracted hostility towards her in Iraq. While she was studying English in preparation for her PhD in the UK, death threats against her escalated and she couldn't return back to her beloved home and family.
Malka's asylum claim was continually refused by the Home Office and after 11 years, she was eventually granted leave to remain, but without access to public funding.
She is now an ambassador for City of Sanctuary in the UK. Malka's pain and anger on behalf of all those caught up in the UK asylum system give her poetry a passionate strength and urgency.
The Truth at the End of the Night launched in London and Leicester during 2023. You can order a copy from this page for £10.99 plus postage.
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The Punished Wound
Simon Lichman's poignant poetry collection, The Punished Wound, was inspired by the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Simon is the Founding Executive Director of the Centre for Creativity in Education and Cultural Heritage, a non-profit-making organisation in Jerusalem,
which brings together Israeli and Palestinian, Jewish and Arab (Moslem and Christian) communities through educational programmes based on folklore.
His poems reveal the emotional and psychological burden of working towards peaceful coexistence during the ongoing violent hostilities between and within the nations.
The Punished Wound will launch this summer in London and then in Israel. You can order a copy from this page for £9.99 plus postage.
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From Sugarcane to Surrey
Jay Woogara was born during the British Colonial rule of Mauritius into a poverty-stricken Hindu family. Despite working in the sugarcane fields and being thrown out of fee-paying secondary school,
he was determined to gain an education. This inspiring autobiography traces Jay's journey from Mauritius to England where he overcame racial discrimination to become a nurse teacher, barrister
and senior University lecturer
From Sugarcane to Surrey launch in Spring 2023. You can order a copy from this page for £10.99 plus postage.
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We Will Fly Higher
This is the latest poetry collection by Parwana Amiri, a young woman refugee from Afghanistan. Parwana and her family endured a long journey into exile, including a perilous sea-crossing, to reach what they hoped was safety
in mainland Europe. They then had to spend years in a series of refugee camps on the Greek island of Lesvos. With devastating honesty, Parwana's poems chronicle what she witnessed of the injustice and dangers
facing refugees in those camps.
We Will Fly Higher will launch this summer on Zoom. You can order a copy from this page for £9.99 plus postage.
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Brother of the Bride
Joseph Kaifala and his sisters grew up during Sierra Leone’s tragic civil wars and lost their father in a refugee camp. While Joseph was a college student in New York, his sister rang him from West Africa and
asked him to buy her a wedding dress. In Brother of the Bride, he shares his frantic, hilarious and emotional search for a dress for a sister he hadn't seen in almost two years.
Brother of the Bride will launch in Autumn 2022. You can order an advance copy from this page for £9.99 plus postage.
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A Different Land
A Different Land is the latest poetry collection from Frank McMahon, who began his career in Social Work/Welfare as a practitioner and manager, working for three Local Authorities, British Red Cross and
ActionforChildren. His anger about injustice and compassion for fellow-humans in trouble inform many of the poems. But his profound joy in the natural world also give this book a great freshness.
A Different Land launched in July 2022. You can order a copy from this page for £9.95 plus postage.
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Federal Gods
In 2015, Germany opened its doors to almost 1 million asylum seekers, most escaping war and persecution in various parts of the Middle East, Central Africa and Afghanistan, as well as economic migrants from the West Balkans
and Eastern European countries. Federal Gods by Clare Saponia is a work of poetry, and the sequel to The Oranges of Revolution, exploring the inevitable knock-on effect of civil wars, western intervention and imperialism on civilians,
who risked their lives to reach safety in Europe, only to encounter new conflicts on arrival.
Federal Gods launched in May 2022. You can order an advance copy from this page for £9.99 plus postage.
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The Utopians of Tahrir Square, Human Rights poetry by young Iraqis
October 2019 saw the start of a series of protests in the central and southern provinces of Iraq: demonstrations, marches, sit-ins and other forms of civil disobedience. The protesters were attacked with live bullets,
marksmen, hot water, hot pepper gas and tear gas, leading to many deaths and injuries. The poems in this anthology The Utopians of Tahrir Square were written by twenty-eight courageous young Iraqis who took part
in the Tahrir Square protest or witnessed it. The poems have been translated into English by Dr Anba Jawi and Catherine Davidson.
The Utopians of Tahrir Square launched on 27th January 2022. You can order a copy from this page for £9.99 plus postage.
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Butterfly of the Night, a Kurdish family history
Butterfly of the Night by Kurdish author, Haydar Karatas, translated into English by Caroline Stockford from the original Turkish manuscript Gece Kelebegi, is a true and utterly heartbreaking family history written
through the eyes of Haydar's mother. Between the ages of 6 and 12 years, she was swept up in a series of tragic historical events in the mountainous region of Dersim in Northeastern Anatolia. On 4 May 1937,
Turkey's Council of Ministers secretly decided on a forceful attack against western-central Dersim. In the resulting campaign, thousands of civilians died. The loss of so many men from rural communities and the
chaos caused by military incursions triggered a famine that led to further deaths. Taking refuge high up in the mountains and eating wild plants, Haydar’s grandmother struggled to keep herself
and her little girl, Haydar’s mother, alive. This is their story.
Butterfly of the Night launched in October 2021. You can order a copy from this page for £10.99 plus postage or from
Amazon.
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Secret Love Letters - Poland 1982
Secret Love Letters - Poland 1982 is a prose and poetry memoir by Anna Maria and Tomasz Mickiewicz, and Piotr Rogoyski. Anna Maria and Tomasz were lovers, torn apart by the imposition of Martial Law in Poland
on the 13th of December 1981. They had to communicate furtively, lest their letters be intercepted by the state security services, which had eyes and ears everywhere. Their friend, Piotr, offered to
carry letters between the lovers, highly risky as they were both actively involved in the workers' and students’ resistance movement.
Secret Love Letters - Poland 1982 containing letters from that time, Anna's poems and essays on Martial Law in Poland launched on 22nd July 2021. You can order a copy for £7.50 (excluding postage)
from this page. Please contact us at enquiries@palewellpress.co.uk if you have any delivery queries
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From Glasgow to Damascus - stories and poems inspired by Syrian refugees
David Forrest is a writer and spoken word artist based in Glasgow. His pamphlet, From Glasgow to Damascus, contains poems and stories inspired by conversations with Syrian friends on the themes of conflict and home.
Written at various points over the last eight years, these pieces draw from the perspectives of those most affected by the Syrian War and Europe's refugee crisis.
From Glasgow to Damascus launched online in May 2021 and you can order the pamphlet for £7.50 (excluding postage) from this page, or
from
Amazon..
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Grave Seas
Hussam Eddin Baramo is a Syrian writer and journalist based in London. His poetry is on the linked themes of Refugees, War, Migration and the Immigration Process.
In his poems, Hussam tries to piece together his deep unchanging feelings towards his country. Away from home, in his encounter with the outside world, he conjures up the image of a soldier, a refugee,
his father or his brother - his enemy, as if to remind us that he is not alone in this feeling.
At once breath-taking in scope and intimately based on his own and other refugees' real experiences, this is a collection not to be missed.
Grave Seas launched online on 18th March 2021 and you can order the collection for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or from
Amazon.
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Resistance - Voices of Exiled Writers
The Exiled Writers Ink anthology celebrates 20 years of their meetings and their work to support human rights around the globe. With a passion for justice,
Exiled Writers Ink enables refugee writers’ voices to be heard so insights can be gained, not only into the pain suffered by refugees, but also into the complexity
of the experiences of writers from diverse regions.
Resistance - Voices of Exiled Writers launched online in December 2020. You can order a copy for £9.99 (excluding postage) from this page or from
Amazon.
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Those Other Fields
Those Other Fields is a poetry pamphlet by David Punter, Professor of English at Bristol University. These are poems of troubled times, of now: closely observed and shrewdly considered.
David Punter calls things out but is never strident. From Poland to Mongolia and back home again to Bristol, these are poems of place where 'the Union Jack's a shroud' and movement with 'dark faces rising on the swell'.
In potent images, David reveals the interconnections between our selfishness and greed, and the rising tides of climate change and pollution, the fleeing migrants.
Those Other Fields launched online in July 2020 and you can order the pamphlet for £7.50 (excluding postage) from this page or
from Amazon.
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The World is for Everyone
The writing in this anthology is by members of PAMOJA Women Together – a group of refugee, asylum-seeking and irregular migrant women from a wide range of countries,
faiths and backgrounds. PAMOJA means ‘together’ and ‘inclusive’ in Swahili. The World Is For Everyone is not a traditional anthology of writing. It represents the voices,
creative contributions and insights – written and spoken – of the PAMOJA Women Together Group, as these emerged through a series of cultural projects organized as part of the
Changing Wor(l)ds Project at Nottingham Trent University. This enchanting book is unique and very personal. As well as poems, stories and photographs,
there are recipes handed down from mother to daughter, carried right across the world and recreated in the UK as an evocation of their birthplaces. Listen and you will find
these women have vital things to say. They speak of courage needed, pain overcome, puzzlement, patience, struggle, rejection and the ultimate triumph of the spirit.
The World is for Everyone launched on International Women's Day, 8th March 2020. You can order the paperback for £9.99 (excluding postage) from this page, or from
Amazon
ISBN 978-1-911587-27-9.
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Algiers: The Poet's Garden
Soleïman Adel Guémar worked as a freelance investigative journalist in Algeria from 1991 until 2002, when he claimed political asylum in the UK. These short stories
address the agonies of contemporary Algeria and the survival, despite everything, of dreams of a different world. Translated by Tom Cheesman, and first appearing in Local
Therapy by Hafan Books, 2013, they have a “fighter’s edge, a tough beauty.” - Lisa Appignanesi, Chair of the Royal Society of Literature.
“The short prose works in Algiers: The Poet's Garden bring us to Algeria's black decade of the 1990s. Here language is pared back to a pure economy of expression that
allows for the confrontation of madness and reason. The madness of a system that cloaks itself in the reason of law and a countering 'madness' of a utopian hope and vision –
the only recourse of those for whom reality has become unreal. In this collection Guemar sounds the depths of a society where justice, law and rules are hollowed out and where people
are forced not to dream yet do so, in order as to escape the darkness. Wise, uncompromising, and unsettling these stories explore brutalising limits and look beyond a dystopian present.”
- Patrick Crowley, University College Cork.
Algiers: The Poet's Garden launched in November 2019. You can order the paperback for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page,
or from Amazon ISBN 978-1-911587-29-3.
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Welling Up
Welling Up is the first anthology composed of writing submitted to Palewell Press, with selection based on our core values of justice,
equality and sustainability. From Fortaleza de Sagres in Portugal where, “Out on the edge of Europe the great fort squats / brooding in the heat,” to generations
of forgotten women drawing water from a well in Africa, twenty-eight poets share compassion and anger on the problems facing marginalised and displaced people.
To achieve greater justice and equality we also need environmental sustainability and the fifth section looks at Global Warming. Ultimately, though, we can only
protect elements of our world that we’re able to describe effectively. Welling Up concludes with lyrical hymns to Nature and her “hidden streams /
where your heart / sits up, awake at last, / to pay attention.”
Welling Up launched in October 2019. You can order the paperback for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page, ISBN 978-1-911587-26-2 or from Amazon.
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Back to Babylon
Back to Babylon, the seventh collection from London-based poet and writer, Agnes Meadows, is based on her visits to Iraq for the Babylon International Festival of Arts & Culture in 2012, 2014 and 2016,
and the things she saw there. As well as poetry, Back to Babylon includes the Blog she wrote during her 2012 visit. From convivial jasmine-scented nights in the old city of Babil to the horror and grief at Al-Mawahil
with its mass grave of 13,000 disappeared Iraqis, her writing takes the reader ever closer to life in this troubled region.
Back to Babylon launched in October 2019. You can order the paperback for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page (plus our Book of the Month 20% discount during January 2021),
ISBN 978-1-911587-20-0, or from Amazon. Please contact us at enquiries@palewellpress.co.uk if you have any delivery queries
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The Architect
A radical social treatise about African American gangs in the 21st century. This book is more than just a blueprint for self-transformation and the reconstruction of gang culture. It is also a unique step-by-step
guideline that shows gang members themselves how to do it. Craig Ross and Steve Champion’s analysis builds upon – and expands – the work that Crips gang co-founder and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Stanley “Tookie” Williams was
committed to before his death. The Architect seeks to change the narrative about gang members by providing them with an independent and self-sustaining plan of action and empowerment. This book is the first of its kind.
The authors are two well-respected Crips emeritus from Los Angeles, who are now prominent in the criminal justice reform movement. They also reside on death row at San Quentin State Prison. Ross and Champion’s street and
prison experience enables them to offer in The Architect authentic, honest dialogue about the problems gang members face and the potential solutions to those problems. The Architect was written for gang members. But
anyone working for real community change should read The Architect. The triumph over violence requires extreme responsibility—not just from gang members, but from everyone.
The Architect launched in Los Angeles in September 2019 and a UK launch is being planned. You can order the paperback for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page (plus our Book of the Month 20% discount during October 2020),
or from Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-14-9.
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Testimony of Flight
Jane Spiro's extraordinary collection of poetry and narrative tells stories of forced migration and the consequences which impact years later. The book brings together historical moments and
stories from members of Jane's family—starting with her father who left Poland as a 16 year old on Kristallnacht. The content is further illuminated through years of conversations with other migrants and
survivors from zones of strife, famine, revolution and war.
Testimony of Flight launched in July 2019. You can order the paperback for £9.99 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-17-0.
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Inside the Blue House
Debut poetry pamphlet by Sonia Jarema that deals with Ukraine's diaspora and its impact on her family. The poetry and its poignant prose introduction take you to uncomfortable places that are lit with extraordinary imagery.
Myra Schneider writes: “In these immediate, tightly-controlled poems Sonia Jarema bears poignant testimony to the effects of war and persecution on ordinary people. Sadness and happiness, England and the Ukraine
are juxtaposed...Homecoming is a moving celebration of Jarema's first visit to her parents' country where she begins to learn about the past she has comes from. Inside the Blue House is a memorable debut.”
Inside the Blue House was published in April 2019. You can order the pamphlet for £7.50 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-16-3.
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Red Winds - a VSO in Tanzania
Red Winds is the third collection from Irma Upex-Huggins, the others being Aloes and Brown Sugar 1991, and Charcoal Woman 1993.
The poems and prose in this collection were written as a result of the period Irma spent as a VSO volunteer in Tanzania - working with women's groups in remote villages.
They aim to reflect the rhythms and spirit of 'traditional' Tanzania through its harsh beauty, situations and vibrant colours. Irma was born on Antigua and she writes with a
Caribbean swing and slang. She will be donating her proceeds from sales of the book to VSO Tanzania to support its work with women.
Red Winds launched in April 2018. You can order the paperback for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-07-1.
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The Scent of my Skin
The Scent of my Skin is a debut poetry collection from Libyan feminist, Farrah Fray. The poems take an urgent look at the role of women, family relationships and
love across Libya, London and all the worlds the poet experiences.
You can order the paperback for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-02-6.
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Tutu's Rainbow World - Selected Poems
Joseph Kaifala was born in Sierra Leone and is now a Human Rights lawyer in Washington, USA. But he remains inspired by the beauty of Africa,
by her poverty, conflicts and the suffering of her child soldiers. Dedicated to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, this book will interest everyone concerned for Africa's future.
You can order the paperback for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon, ISBN 978-0-9955351-8-3.
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Tiger and Clay - Syria Fragments
A moving collection of poetry and memoir by Rana Abdulfattah, a young Syrian woman writing in exile in Istanbul. In the collection, Rana
charts the destructive effects of never being permitted to go home, and takes the reader on her emotional journey towards a measure of peace
You can order the paperback for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or from Amazon, ISBN 978-0-9955351-2-1.
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Three Days in Damascus
Kim Schultz's memoir of an unexpected love affair in the middle of the refugee crisis - November 2016. Writer, actor and refugee advocate,
in 2009 Kim Schultz travelled to the Middle East as an artist/activist to meet with Iraqi refugees, forever changing her life.
Three Days in Damascus follows her 3-year fight for a chance at love with an Iraqi refugee whom she met for 3 days in Syria and was never supposed to fall in love with.
The memoir shares authentic Iraqi refugee stories, a whirlwind Middle Eastern romance and the consequently doomed, intercontinental relationship told through texts and emails -
all with civil war, revolution and an arranged marriage as the backdrop.
You can order the paperback for £10.99 (excluding postage) from this page or from Amazon, ISBN 978-0-9955351-0-7.
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In Sadness and Solidarity
Poetry pamphlet anthology - on the theme of Human Rights - from Wordshare Poets, published in 2016. Wordshare Poets - Jane Sherwin, Jenny Messer and
Camilla Reeve - are all committed to Human Rights.
Keen to do more than just feel compassion for those caught up in the appalling refugee/asylum-seeking situation,
they're sharing their concerns through poetry.
You can order the pamphlet for £7.50 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon. ISBN 978-0-9556770-1-4.
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