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Brian Conaghan, who won the Costa Children’s Book Award for The Bombs That Brought Us Together, can always be relied on to side with the underdog. This time it’s Lenny, an overweight 12-year-old boy

Books to look out for in 2021 Irish fiction New work that has been a long time coming generates a particular shiver of anticipation. Small Things Like These (Faber, October) will be Claire Keegan’s first new work since her novella Foster, still a bestseller 10 years on. Her publisher says: “An exquisite wintery parable, Claire Keegan’s long-awaited return tells the story of a simple act of courage and tenderness, in the face of conformity, fear and judgment.” Small Things Like These...