Foster, after winning the Davy Byrnes Award - then the world's richest prize for a story was recently selected by The Times UK as one of the top 50 novels to be published in the 21st century. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Small Things Like These is award-winning author Claire Keegan's landmark new novel, a tale of one man's courage and a remarkable portrait of love and family It is 1985 in a small Irish town. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was chosen as a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Small Things Like These wins 2022 Orwell Prize for political fictionĬlaire Keegan is an Irish writer known for her award-winning short stories. Her stories have won numerous awards and are translated into more than twenty languages.Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These is a story of moral crisis, heroism and the human heart.During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season.Įarly one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.
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