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What we’re reading: Alan Hollinghurst, Samantha Harvey and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in December

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

Many schools don’t think students can read full novels any more. That’s a tragedy

Increasingly, teens are given only parts of books, and they often read not in print but on school-issued laptops

The Guardian - US

Best Christmas books, from classic novels to contemporary romances

Cosy up this season with romcoms, classics and family dramas

The Independent UK

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These are my 6 favourite books that can be read in less than a day

From Claire Keegan's ‘Small Things Like These’ to Vincenzo Latronico's ‘Perfection’, these novellas are less than 200 pages

The Independent UK

What to stream: 'The Handmaid’s Tale,' Viola Davis, Bon Iver, 'The Last of Us' and Jon Hamm

Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” returning for its sixth and final season and Viola Davis playing a U.S. president in the action movie “G20” are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases

The Independent UK

Where to start with: Claire Keegan

Shortlisted for the Booker, passed among families and picked up by Cillian Murphy for the big screen, the Irish writer’s razor-sharp fiction leaves you wanting more

The Guardian - UK

13 Books for When You Want to Curl Up and Read About Murder

Calling all fans of "cozy mysteries."

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Winfrey announces new book club pick and launches 'The Oprah Podcast'

Oprah Winfrey has her next book club pick and a new platform to talk books and other topics of the day

The Independent UK

Q&A: Cillian Murphy on following ‘Oppenheimer’ with the Irish drama ‘Small Things Like These’

Cillian Murphy went back to Ireland for his first film after “Oppenheimer.”

The Independent UK

Small Things Like These review – Cillian Murphy shines as quiet hero in powerful 80s Ireland morality tale

Claire Keegan’s acclaimed Magdalene laundries novella reaches the big screen in director Tim Mielant’s atmospheric adaptation

The Guardian - UK

How to watch Small Things Like These

Small Things LIke These, Cillian Murphy’s follow up to his Oscar-winning Oppenheimer performance, is now playing, but where? Here’s what you need to know.

WhatToWatch

Cillian Murphy: Small Things Like These film tries to stay ‘faithful to book’

The film is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Claire Keegan, about Ireland’s notorious Magdalene Laundries.

Evening Standard

Before he returns for Netflix's Peaky Blinders movie, Cillian Murphy's new historical drama Small Things Like These looks like it'll make me weep

Cillian Murphy puts on a tear-jerking performance in the new trailer for Small Things Like These ahead of his appearance in the Peaky Blinders movie.

TechRadar

Small Things Like These: how to watch, reviews, trailer, cast and everything we know about the Cillian Murphy drama

Coming off his Oscar win, Cillian Murphy is again being praised for his performance in Small Things Like These. Here's what you need to know.

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The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the power of brevity in the arts: an antidote to the blather of politics

Editorial: From the Marx Brothers to Albert Camus and Claire Keegan, concise storytelling can get to the heart of the matter

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Cillian Murphy to Produce and Star in

In this interview, Cillian Murphy discusses his latest film Small Things Like These, his production company Big Things Films, and the potential 28 Days Lat...

The Independent UK

Best books to gift (and gift again) at Christmas: The Independent newsroom make their picks

CHRISTMAS 2025: When you give someone a book as a gift, what you’re really giving them is a few hours of pleasure. Indy staff share their trusted literary gifts this Christmas

The Independent UK

The books we give as gifts

When you give someone a book as a gift, what you’re really giving them is a few hours of pleasure. Indy staff share their trusted literary gifts this Christmas

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The Guardian - UK

Claire Keegan: ‘I can’t explain my work. I just write stories’

The much-acclaimed Irish author of Small Things Like These on her quietly devastating new story and why George Saunders wouldn’t read it aloud for a podcast

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Ardal O’Hanlon’s cultural highlights

The Father Ted actor on laughing out loud at Jamie Demetriou, an architectural pilgrimage to Pennsylvania and where to find Dublin’s fanciest artichoke

The Independent UK

In ‘The Quiet Girl,’ a history making film for Ireland

Filmmaker Colm Bairéad’s Irish language adaptation of a Claire Keegan short story, “The Quiet Girl,” is proving to be a watershed moment for Irish cinema

Boston Herald

Movie review: ‘The Quiet Girl’ a stunning, lyrical winner

A quiet film with a great deal of low-spoken power, “The Quiet Girl,” a work almost entirely in Irish with subtitles, is the first Irish-language film to be nominated for an Academy Award in the best international feature film category. Written and directed by Colm Bairead and based on the…

The Orange County Register

How ‘The Quiet Girl’ became the first Irish-language film nominated for Academy Award

ANAHEIM, Calif. — It’s two days after Colm Bairéad attended the 2023 Oscar nominees luncheon and the Irish writer-director of “The Quiet Girl” is still processing his first time at the star-studded annual event.

The Guardian - UK

Joy in Ireland after country’s film talents bag 14 Oscar nominations

Strong showing for Irish actors and directors, with one film, The Banshees of Inisherin, up for nine awards

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 books about family secrets

Lies told and truths hidden give compelling life to fiction and memoir by authors from Maggie O’Farrell to Ocean Vuong and Claire Keegan

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