Small Things Like These

Author: Keegan, Claire

Publisher: Faber and Faber 2021

Description: First edition, first printing 

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. (Faber)

Small Things Like These, a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize and won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. Claire Keegan's work has been translated into more than 20 languages. 

Flat signed by the author to the half title page.

Condition: Near Fine. White boards with lettering in purple to spine. Binding is square and tight. Internally fine, no markings or foxing. Original jacket is fine, with only a hint of edge wear to top of spine. Price of £10 remains to inner jacket flap. Gold foiled lettering to front jacket. Jacket design by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in The Snow (Winter), 1565. 

Size: 205 x 136 mm