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Mystery

Book Cover – The Escape Game

The Escape Game

Fans of intrigue, escape rooms and reality TV will be delighted with this page-turning thriller. It’s season five of The Escape Game, ‘a feel-good family show, featuring some of the most brilliant minds of the next generation.’ Teams of teenage contestants compete against one another to solve puzzles, and viewers at home can join in on the Domain, trying to figure out the solutions before the show reveals them.

Book Cover – The Same Backwards As Forward

The Same Backwards As Forward

Hannah Rooney wants to stay invisible. She is desperate to escape the life of crime her family is caught up in, and save her sister from it in the process. However, when tragedy strikes, Hannah must help to save the last person in the world she would ever want to help …

Book Cover – The Feathered Book

The Feathered Book

If you enjoy mysteries, fast-paced adventures and an irresistible animal cast then The Feathered Book is the perfect middle-grade book to read. From the very first page, the story grabs your attention and doesn’t let go.

Book Cover – Paddock Grove: Riding For Gold

Paddock Grove: Riding For Gold

Charming with a twist, this pony book is sure to catch the eye of those who love all things daring and mysterious. Katie must confront her nervousness when she is chosen to captain the Paddock Grove team to victory. However, when strange things beginning to happen, the team’s chances to win gold are cast in doubt: Katie and her friends must step up to solve the case.

Book Cover – Amelia Cheeseheart Investigates: Ice Age Alarm!

Amelia Cheeseheart Investigates: Ice Age Alarm!

Like her namesake, Amelia Cheeseheart is an intrepid adventurer who loves to fly. Unlike the real Amelia Earheart, she is a mouse who lives inside the gift shop of a museum with her best friend; a timid banana loving spider called Webster.

Book Cover – How To Find a Missing Girl

How to Find a Missing Girl

How to Find a Missing Girl is a sapphic YA mystery that follows Iris, a determined teenager searching for answers after her older sister, Stella, disappeared a year earlier. Refusing to let the case fade away, Iris forms an amateur detective group and continues investigating. When her ex-girlfriend, Heather, suddenly goes missing soon after releasing the final episode of her true-crime podcast about Stella’s disappearance, Iris becomes convinced that the cases are linked. With time running out, she races to uncover what really happened to both of them.

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Léigh Leabhar Gaeilge

This Seachtain na Gaeilge, discover a new reading guide highlighting the excellent books on offer in the Irish language for children and young people.

Book Cover – Arcana: The Lost Heirs

Arcana: The Lost Heirs

It’s love at flat white for Eli and James when they meet at the Brewbear cafe. A rogue source of magic has been detected at a nearby abandoned farmhouse and James is on a mission to locate its source. Eli has never known another witch. For centuries, Arcana has investigated paranormal entities parallel to the world of human beings and contained their magic to preserve order. But within Arcana’s celestial interiors and grand halls, the Majors are harbouring a perilous secret. Can Eli and his newfound coven free themselves from the hands of a generational curse?

Book Cover – Murder at Hotel Marvelo

Murder at Hotel Marvelo

This book is a modern magical tale of wizardry and mayhem. When wizard Henry Gravelaxe is found murdered at the Hotel Marvelo the owners, Finian’s parents, are blamed. Finnian, however, is determined to clear their names. With the help of his siblings Juniper and Teddy who are part of their blended family, they set out on the hunt for clues.

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Northern Lights reading guide

With an introduction from Patricia Forde, Laureate na nÓg 2023–2026 and Frank Cotrell-Boyce, Children’s Laureate, the Northern Lights recommended reading guide aims to shine a light on talented authors and illustrators from the North of Ireland who create books for young readers.