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'AS IF TAYLOR JENKINS-REID WROTE A CRIME NOVEL' Emilia Hart, bestselling author of SIRENSYou've heard of the men who kill, but what about the women who loved them?It's a baking hot summer in 1960s California and three women have formed an unlikely friendship. From the outside, Beverley, Elsie and...

In her second collection, Claire Keegan observes an Ireland wrestling with its past, and it is against this landscape that the stories so beautifully articulate all the yearnings of the human heart.

Claire Fitzroy was just trying to get home her when her train from Manchester to London was hijacked by a group of armed men. In one terrifying moment she faced the starkest of choices: to stand back. To fight back. And maybe to die either way. Claire chose to fight back. The middle-aged art lect...

One in a series of first concept books for little kids, focusing on numbers, with translation in Irish alongside.

A Viking family in Norway loads up their ship and enjoys a farewell feast before setting sail to set up home overseas. What dangers might they face at sea? Will the Norse gods protect them on their journey? Meet a brother and sister as they say goodbye to their old home and prepare for adventure....

Anna Blix takes the reader on a fascinating journey through her own pregnancy, introducing us in each of the 40 weeks to other creatures who have just delivered their next generation into the world. This fun, informative and personable book provides evolutionary comfort throughout the long haul o...

One in a series of first concept books for little kids, focusing on the alphabet.

Peggy Jenkins and her teenage son, Samson, live on a remote stretch of canal in the Midlands. She is a writer and he is a schoolboy. Together, they battle against the hardness and manipulation of the man they live with. To the outside world he is a husband and father. To them, he is a captor. The...

There is a time in a young otter's life when they must be introduced to their river. For Portly, today was that day. Told across four seasons in one year, little Portly has the greatest of adventures. Among other fur-raising encounters, the youngest of Mrs Otter's pups learns to swim, battles a l...

Even in the third decade of the 21st century, it is still harder for women to make a career in science than men. Two centuries ago, however, at the beginning of the 19th century, when science as we know it was just getting started, the situation was far worse. Then, the very notion of a female sc...

Things are different since Tony Ward landed back in town. The West Dublin gangland has changed. His old mentor is dead, and his best pal Kenny Boyle is on the straight and narrow. After five years keeping quiet across the way, Tony is keen to reinstate himself, and when the opportunity arises to ...

Animagicals are children born with the power to change into an animal. They can change into any animal and they need help controlling their ability until they find their true form - the animal they are destined to be. Will they fly like an eagle, leap like a leopard or skulk like a fox? Come and ...

The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It's said that when he's reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them. But he's not merely a legend. Taken from a foster home as a boy, Evan Smoak was raised and...

Mary Lavin's stories feature ordinary people in the tight confines of ordinary life. From rural Ireland and the streets of Dublin they charm, irritate and intrigue in complicated brilliance, appearing to us with unique freshness. Good friendships, bad deeds, frustrations, missteps, hope and laugh...

Big ideas for curious minds are simply explained in this fascinating introduction to artificial intelligence.

Two men meet in a flat in London. They are total strangers and yet they look remarkably alike. Lewis is grieving his dead wife; Korine is hiding from his very-much-alive one. Lewis never had children; Korine is an ambivalent parent at best. Lewis is an erstwhile actor, too depressed to attend the...

Bob and Archie are two hapless but enthusiastic koalas who are just getting to grips with their new superpowers. Their archenemy is Dr Colossus, a giant ostrich with grand plans to destroy Pawtonia with the help of his Zombie Chickens! Can our furry heroes thwart the feathered supervillain?

In Sleepy Creek Library, living and breathing stories have to be retrieved from the Land of Books. But when Arun asks for a book so adventurous no one has ever been able to catch it, Rida's Grandad, the librarian, says he can't help. Can Rida secretly journey to the Land of Books and find the sto...

Sofie Muller can make you into a better writer. That's why Alice and Walt are desperate to be in her creative writing class. She can spot talent and apply pressure, hone you - if you're good enough, if you want it enough - into something more elegant, original, daring. Alice wants it. She wants S...

Generations of children have grown up with Dame Eleanor Kingman's stories. Her status as the country's best-loved storyteller is unrivalled. But now it is under attack. Because while her fans regard her as a national treasure, someone seems to know the truth about who she really is. Eleanor is tu...