Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize

Claire Keegan

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 Hummingbird Effect

Kate Mildenhall

An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread and their determination to shape their own stories, from the acclaimed author of The Mother Fault.   One of the lucky few with a job during the Depression, Peggy’s just starting out in life. She’s a baggin...