Chronicles the human drama behind the evolution of finance from its origins in Mesopotamia to the modern world's most recent upheavals, in an account that covers such topics as the stock market bubble that prompted the French Revo…

The Odyssey follows the long and perilous journey of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, as he attempts to return home after the Trojan War. Having already spent ten years fighting at Troy, he is forced to wander for another decade due to t…

Kenna Heron is a servant in the cruel underground faerie kingdom of Mistei. There she must help her mistress undertake six deadly trials, one for each branch of magic: Fire, Earth, Light, Void, Illusion, and Blood. If Kenna succee…

Explore the beautiful sundecks, marvel at the luxurious design and relive the tragic sinking of the world's most famous ship with The Story of the Titanic for Children. Over one hundred years on, the captivating story of the Titan…

Jackie McCarthy O'Brien has led a truly remarkable life, from being born in 1961 to an Irish mother and Jamaican father (whom she never met) in Birmingham to growing up in Limerick. She was put in an industrial school as a baby by…

When the nation’s ‘taster-in-chief’ Felicity Cloake announced her dream to cycle across America, the reactions were… mixed: “You’ll get squashed,” warned a Californian colleague. “You’ll be murdered,” added her mum. Friends panick…

First published in 1865, this perennially popular tale follows the tale of curious Alice and her fall through the rabbit hole into a fantasy world filled with anthropomorphic and peculiar creatures, including the Mad Hatter, the C…

Outdoor space is something everyone should have access to. But you don't need a garden to become a gardener. Growing plants and vegetables forces us to pause, pay attention and look more closely. From the vantage point of even the…

How many words do you need to survive?  Letta loves her job as the Wordsmith’s apprentice, giving out words to people that need them. It doesn’t strike her as odd that the people of Ark are only allowed to use a few hundred words,…

You wake up in a compound in the middle of the desert, with nine other women. All of you are young, beautiful, and keen to escape the catastrophe of the outside world. Cameras broadcast your every move to millions of reality TV fa…

Before Iris sat at her typewriter and before Enva sang her song, a young goddess wandered dreams… Born to the firelit domain of the underworld, Matilda is the youngest goddess of her clan, blessed with humble messenger magic. But …

All is fair in love and rivalry... Dina is done.She's burn out after years in corporate London and now is working in her family's struggling Bangladeshi restaurant. The last thing she expects is to be roped into coaching a footbal…

Margo is on a train when she slips into another dimension, passing from the height of Irish summer into the chill of an alien winter, from a 24-hour day to one that begins and ends in just six hours. From a stranger on the train –…

The new collection from John Moriarty, edited by Martin Shaw. There is a radical agency in John Moriarty’s work not always acknowledged. As our heads spin with mythological cross-referencing, poetical leaps and the philosophical b…

The Lebensborn programme was founded in Nazi Germany to breed racially pure Aryans, from mothers who believed it was their national duty to provide 'A Child for Hitler', and fathers who served in the SS, selected for their good lo…

Oscar is dead because I watched him die and did nothing. It is the end of August and the long summer holidays are drawing to a close. Seventeen-year-old Leonard is on a camping holiday with his family in the South of France.Awkwar…

In The Land and Its People, David Sedaris investigates what it means to be a traveller, a brother, a lifelong friend.Trying on the role of carer after his boyfriend Hugh's hip-replacement surgery, he both succeeds and fails. He co…

A candid portrayal of first love and self-discovery, from the author of the 'instant queer classic', Isaac. Cornwall, 2018. In the quiet fishing village of Portscatho, sixteen-year-old Daniel and seventeen-year-old Jago form an un…

Hidden down a quiet alley, glowing softly under moonlight, there is a bar like no other. This otherworldly venue is manned by Mun, a quiet bartender with a knowing gaze and a mysterious past. He serves not just drinks, but moments…

The world knows Virginia Roberts Giuffre as Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s most outspoken victim: the woman whose decision to speak out helped send both serial abusers to prison, whose photograph with Prince Andrew cataly…

I married my husband to live in a fairy tale. I imagined us like planets orbiting the sun or gods enacting their myths. Marriage was a solution and I wanted to be dissolved.’A woman’s husband walks into their bedroom one evening a…

When readers left Lyra in The Secret Commonwealth she was alone, in the ruins of a deserted city. Pantalaimon had run from her – part of himself – in search of her imagination, which he believed she had lost.Lyra travelled across …

Everyone is a player.In the grandest of games, there is everything to win money, love, power, revenge and even more to lose.Every clue pulls them deeper.From Texas to Prague to London and beyond, the Hawthorne family and their all…

When Bishop Denis Moynihan had Jayne Mansfield's cabaret cancelled from the pulpit in 1967, few could have imagined that within fifty years Ireland would repeal the Eighth Amendment by popular vote. What happened in between is one…

An astonishing undercover investigation into the paranoid and misogynistic subcultures of the manosphere, by the Orwell Prize-longlisted author of Hired. Rarely has there seemed a more confusing time to be a man. This uncertainty …

Dublin, 1939. Journalist Liam returns from his Rhine honeymoon just as Europe tips into war. As the Emergency tightens its grip, his marriage begins to fracture. A landmark of mid-century Irish fiction, now in English for the firs…

The post-war world wasn't an accident - it was designed. So what happens when we forget the lesson?Although the Second World War was still a long way from being won, even by early 1941, US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a…