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I'll be Home for Christmas

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Heartfelt stories of home by top authors

Home – it’s a powerful concept, never more so than at Christmas. In association with homeless charity Crisis - £1 from every copy sold goes to them – publisher Stripes commissioned short stories on this theme from some of the most popular UK YA authors. They have risen to the challenge.

The collection opens with a moving poem by Benjamin Zephaniah on a lost home, and includes more stories of hardship, including Lisa Williamson’s, inspired by real-life experiences described to her by young people at a Crisis Centre, or Sita Brahmachari’s story of a refugee making a home in a new country. There are heart-warming stories too, like Kevin Brooks’s The Associates, about a friendship between two homeless men.  It deserves its place on bookshelves, but why not buy two copies? One to keep, one to give away.  

Amnesty have also published an excellent collection of short stories, Here I Stand, while David Almond shows himself a master of the genre in Counting Stars.  

A message from Jon Sparkes, Chief Executive, Crisis  “It is nothing short of a tragedy that anyone should experience homelessness in 21st century Britain. We are determined that no one should face the devastation and isolation of homelessness and the next generation, including the readers of this new book, will play a crucial role in our efforts to end homelessness for good.”

Andrea Reece

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