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Small Things Like These: Shortlisted For The 2022 Booker PrizeStock informationGeneral Fields
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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 |