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Small Things Like These: Shortlisted For The 2022 Booker PrizeStock informationGeneral Fields
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Local DescriptionWINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2022 Author Biography: Claire Keegan was brought up on a farm in Ireland. Her stories have won numerous awards and are translated into more than 20 languages. Foster was named by The Times as one of the top 50 novels to be published in the 21st Century. Keegan is now holding the Briena Staunton Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge. DescriptionIt is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church. Awards* A Book of the Year in The Times, The New Statesman, Observer, Financial Times, Irish Times, Irish Independent & Times Literary Supplement * Winner of the Orwell Prize * Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Awards * Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Irish Novel of the Year at the Dalkey Literary Awards Reviews'Exquisite.' - Damon Galgut 'Masterly.' - The Times 'Miraculous.' - Herald 'Astonishing.' - Colm Tóibín 'Stunning.' - Sunday Independent 'Absolutely beautiful.' - Douglas Stuart
'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' - The Times |