Small Things Like These

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.

The long-awaited new work from the author of Foster, Small Things Like These is an unforgettable story of hope, quiet heroism and tenderness.

Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month for November 2022
Shortlisted for The Booker Prize 2022
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022
Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2022