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 …
Burton presents an intriguing premise in this tale of fantasy espionage, following Remira, the Shadow Queen, as she vies for political control for her half-brother Luc. Readers are thrown into a courtly world of power plays, bribery, magic and violence.
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.
This Seachtain na Gaeilge, discover a new reading guide highlighting the excellent books on offer in the Irish language for children and young people.
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.
In a world where most of London is submerged underwater and war between rival houses, the Rogues and the Crowns, reign supreme, this blend of Hunger Games and Romeo and Juliette is filled with gritty action and rustic imagery which will have readers immersed in Billy Ray’s world.
The fantasy fiction centres on a young woman named Aurora, whose village would be shrouded in darkness without the Starmaker, a long-lived sorcerer whose duty it is to herald the sunlight to her village every morning, returning it to the sun every night.
When Corith Fraine finds herself propelled into a new role as Floodmouth for the prestigious House Shearwater, she struggles to keep her head above water. As she begins to unravel the mysteries of the island and the family that inhabit it, she must learn to control the tides and her strength to uncover the secrets behind her best friend Zennia’s death.
Margo did not expect to fall into a new dimension when she got on the train to her new boarding school. When she finds herself following a travelling salesman called Moon as they disembark into a strange world, Margo soon realises that time is a commodity which she took for granted.
Some Irish myths have been heard a thousand times, borrowed for advertisements, and taken for granted: here, McGann reminds us that there is always something new to discover. In this beautiful retelling of the timeless tale of Oisín and Tír na nÓg – a story many of us think we know so well that its magic is often overlooked – McGann’s simple, lyrical prose effortlessly evokes the ethereal beauty of Tír na nÓg, while the modern, vibrant illustrations from Busuttil breathe fresh life into this ancient legend.
