Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 Keeganov Claire (2024)

Set in an Irish town in 1985, Claire Keegans award-winning and Booker Prize-shortlisted novel follows Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant facing his busiest season in the weeks before Christmas. As he makes his rounds, the past rises up to meet him and he encounters the complicit silences of a community controlled by the Church. Small Things Like These is a concise, moving and thought-provoking exploration of human goodness and cruelty, praised by critics including Damon Galgut, Colm Tibn and Douglas Stuart. The novel is in English.