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What drives someone to keep reaching for all that glitters, no matter the price? It’s easy to believe that more is better: more acclaim, more control, more wealth. But when dreams are fueled by greed, they can quickly twist into nightmares. These six propulsive short stories explore what happens when the true cost of ambition comes due.

Elena’s looking forward to a quiet Friday night curled up with her husband with a glass of wine and a new crime drama on TV. As the show starts, she realises, with a jolt of panic: every detail mirrors one horrific night she’s spent years trying to forget. Elena doesn’t believe in coincidences. Someone knows her secret—and she’ll lose everything if the truth comes out.

From the master of tragicomedy and award-winning author of Skippy Dies: a tour de force new novel about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is (maybe) ending. Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking, a state-of-the-nation novel about one unhappy family in the midst of meltdown.

From the million-copy Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop! In a quiet village in Ireland, a mysterious local myth is about to change everything… One hundred years ago, Anna, a young farm girl, volunteers to help an intriguing American visitor translate fairy stories from Irish...

Rachel lives with her husband Tom and her two children: it's the comfortable family life Rachel always thought she'd have. All of that changes in an instant - when one action by Tom destroys the life they've built, leaving Rachel to pore over the wreckage to try and understand what happened, to try and find a way to go on living afterwards.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'You'd think they'd do something about the taxi shortage,' he says. 'Especially with the missing women.' Stranded on a dark road in the middle of the night, a young woman accepts a lift from a passing stranger. It's the nightmare scenario that every girl is warned...

In a realm without magic, Fia is a rare changeling, swapped for the Princess Eala by the wicked Fair Folk. Eala's mother, the High Queen, has taken Fia in as an adoptive daughter and trained her as a warrior spy. Princess Eala, meanwhile, is the prisoner of a shadowy Folk lord, cursed to be a swan twenty-eight days of the month. When a forgotten gate to the Folk realm is discovered, Fia is tasked by the High Queen to break Eala's curse and retrieve her, and to capture a powerful magical weapon that will help humankind destroy the evil in Otherworld.

Brought to you by Penguin. A ghostwriter is locked in an interview room with a man who might be a murderer, in this gripping new mystery thriller from the #1 bestselling author of 56 Days and The Trap. The night Jack Smyth ran into flames in a desperate attempt to save his wife from their...

Broken and confused, sixteen-year-old Izzy’s world is falling apart. Though people remind her of her responsibilities as a Grigori – keeping the balance between humans and fae, angels and demons – there are such gaps in her memory … All she knows for sure is that Jinx, the fae warrior she loved, is dead. But now the crows are gathering on black wings and Izzy knows that a darkness is coming … She and her friends must stand against it, even though heaven, hell, the armies of the Sídhe and mankind all stand against them.

As we live through an era of polycrisis this book sets out how electricity can get the world off fossil fuels and accelerate to a zero-carbon economy. The essential element in this transformation is a supergrid to transmit vast amounts of cost-competitive, regionally produced power quickly to where it’s most needed.

Brought to you by Penguin. The world of beloved influencer, Gemma Fitzgerald, seems ready to implode when the body of her brother, Max – who disappeared 18 years earlier – is washed up on a beach. Everyone thought Max had taken his own life the night of his twenty-first birthday party, but...

When Izzy Gregory takes a wrong turn down a Dublin alley she stumbles into a shadowy, frightening world where magical beings, angels and demons hold sway. In this place where everything is strange, Izzy finds herself surrounded by danger, chased and threatened. Her only chance of survival lies with Jinx, who’s been sent to capture her. Jinx has known nothing but duty and cruelty from his own kind; Izzy is something altogether new to him – and to his world … Falling in love was never in the plan, but it might be the one thing that can save them.

Brought to you by Penguin. ‘Adults forget that children can hear’ Jean Kennedy is a gentle, perceptive girl growing up in a very strange world: suburban Dublin in the 1970s and '80s. In the company of her mother, her Aunty Ida, and her little brother Baby John F., Jean experiences love and...

Grace is excited for the neighbourhood Halloween party – until a spark from the bonfire turns her night upside down, sending her to hospital and leaving her with scars that change how she sees herself. Later, back at school, Grace struggles with the stares and unkind words. But, as she slowly begins to heal, Grace learns that true friends shine brightest when times are dark – and that she is braver and stronger than she ever imagined.

Something is stirring beneath Dubh Linn. When an ancient and forbidden power is unleashed, Izzy, who is still coming to terms with her newfound powers, must prevent a war from engulfing Dublin and the fae realm of Dubh Linn. But by refusing to sacrifice Jinx – fae warrior and her ‘not-really-ex’ – Izzy sets in motion a chain of events which will see them hunted across the city and into the hills where she'll face the greatest challenge of all.

LONGLISTED FOR BOOKTOK AUTHOR OF THE YEAR Bridesmaids meets The Hangover in the laugh-out-loud rom-com of the year What happens in Vegas . . . doesn’t always stay there. Kate is the ultimate planner. She has her happily-ever-after all plotted out, starting with her dream wedding to successful...

The first definitive account of one of Ireland’s most controversial business stories Founded in 2009 by the enigmatic Paddy Cosgrave, Web Summit started as a 150-person meet up in Dublin. Within a decade, it grew to a 70,000 gathering of industry leaders. The gravitas of big names and the...

LONGLISTED FOR BOOKTOK AUTHOR OF THE YEAR ‘A literary soul brother to the likes of Marian Keyes and Beth O’Leary’ – Irish Independent What happens in Vegas . . . doesn’t always stay there. Kate is the ultimate planner. She has her happily-ever-after all plotted out, starting with her...

Ally has just got out of a long-term relationship with the lovely but unfortunately predictable Francis. She's got her eye on confident, charming William from the office when she gets herself fired in a classic 'Reply All' gaffe. Then she meets hunky, down-to-earth, utterly unavailable Pete the builder at her local cafe. Ally is trying to figure out who she is and what she wants, but will she see that her true love has been Mr Right All Along?

Quinn is furious when her mum announces they are moving in with Grandad because her doctor dad is away working abroad again. New school, new town, new everything. She manages to make one good friend, Charlie, the goalie on her football team, who loves books as much as she does. Quinn wishes life could go back to normal, before her dad felt that he had to go to help in war zones, before Mum was stressed all the time, before they had to live in Grandad's small house and go to a new school. But her biggest worry is that Mum and Dad are going to break up and life will never be the same again …