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The ten best short novels under 150 pages – chosen by experts

A novel doesn’t need to be a hefty tome to change your life. Forget War and Peace (1,200 pages) or Les Misérables (1,400 pages); these expert recommendations are under 150 pages – short enough to tear through over a weekend.

The Conversation

‘It’s still a no-go area’: German author Matthias Jügler on the trauma surrounding the GDR’s ‘stolen children’

The reaction among officials in Germany to his bestselling novel has been hostile. As Mayfly Season is published in the UK, its author explains why

The Guardian - UK

Wuthering Heights to Small Things Like These: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are Cathy and Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s raunchy update of the Emily Brontë classic. Plus, Cillian Murphy stars in a damning take on the Magdalene Laundries scandal

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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

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

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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."

Marie Claire

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.

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Evening Standard

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.

TechRadar

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.

WhatToWatch

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.

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

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…

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