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Rebelling against the blinding power of oppression

16/10/2022

Published by Faber & Faber 2021 | Fiction

SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE
By Claire Keegan

The shame, secrecy and fear that hangs over the treatment of women and children who spent time in Ireland’s so-called Magdalen laundries has fuelled the imaginations of many writers, most recently Claire Keegan in her Booker-shortlisted novella Small Things Like These.

Small kindnesses triumph in this WWII epic

8/10/2022

Published by 4th Estate 2014 | Fiction

ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE
By Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize winning 2014 novel All The Light We Cannot See is a captivating story celebrating the small triumphs scattered among the tragedies experienced by many during the second world war.

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