The Booker Prizes celebrates the world’s most outstanding fiction, whether written in or translated into English, and each month they shine a spotlight on a different book from the Booker Library.
This month they are celebrating Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These with a reading guide, an extract, an exclusive interview and a chance to win a Small Things Like These bundle. Access the Booker Monthly Spotlight today.
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Introducing the Booker Prizes December Monthly Spotlight: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Claire Keegan’s tender tale of hope and quiet heroism is both a celebration of compassion and a stern rebuke of the sins committed in the name of religion.
Set in an Irish town, in December 1985, the book follows Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, as he faces his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him – and encounters the complicit silences of a small community controlled by the Church.
Now a widely acclaimed film starring Cillian Murphy, Small Things Like These delivers a personal and compassionate tale of the women of the Magdalene Laundries.
The Booker Prizes are offering a reading guide for Small Things Like These, an extract, an exclusive interview and a chance to win a Small Things Like These bundle. and a Booker Prize tote bag.
The Booker Prize 2024
The Booker Prizes have announced the winner of this year’s Booker Prize, the world’s most influential prize for a single work of fiction, as Orbital by Samantha Harvey.
Find out all about the winner here.
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