Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize

An exquisite winter tale of courage – and its cost, set in Catholic Ireland. ‘Exquisite.’ Damon Galgut ‘Masterly.’ The Times ‘Miraculous.’ Herald ‘Astonishing.’ Colm Toibin ‘Stunning.’ Sunday Independent ‘Absolutely beautiful.’ Douglas Stuart A Book of the Year in The Times and The New Statesman It 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. ‘A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.’ The Times ‘A snowglobe of a story that fits a whole bustling, striving, yearning world into 114 finely wrought pages.’ Sunday Times ‘Powerful and affecting and very timely . . . deeply moving.’ Hilary Mantel ‘Stunning . . . A haunting, hopeful masterpiece.’ Sinead Gleeson ‘Remarkable . . . Truly exquisite.’ Daily Telegraph ‘A restrained and intensely moral book, full of hope and love.’ Observer ‘Marvellous – exact and icy and loving all at once.’ Sarah Moss —- ISBN: 9780571368709 | ISBN10: 0571368700 | ISBN-13: 978-0571368709