'If you read one book on Irish housing, make it Brittle - Lyons understands this crisis better than anyone' DAVID McWILLIAMS'Magnificent... the most insightful and comprehensive thing I've ever read on housing' JOHN BURN-MURDOCHJust under half of Irish adults under 40 are living with their parents or in shared accommodation - and almost all of those would rather be living by themselves or with a partner but can't.The housin...

Art dealer Hugh Rhattigan is heavily in debt to Douglas Virgo, a freelance fixer for some of the most powerful banks and corporations in London. With little hope of repaying the debt, Hugh is coerced into establishing a gallery as a front for illicit payments. Blue-chip banks and corporations can't easily show bumper staff bonuses in the accounts any more, let alone bribes to politicians to stave off regulation, or payments for Bolivian coke-flake and all manner of other nocturnal pursuits...

Ireland in the early 2010s stands at a crossroads. The ongoing change and crisis in institutions that once had our trust force us to ask, What now? Next Generation Ireland brings together ten young Irish men and women to answer this very question. All are under forty and are emerging experts in their chosen fields. They have come together because they believe that, in this time of questioning, there exists a huge opportunity for the next generation to build the Ireland of the 2020s and 2030s....

**Now with an exclusive extract of Bella Mackie's deliciously dark new 2026 novel CLAWS OUT!**Grace Bernard is on a mission… to avenge her mother, she plans to murder every member of her family, one awful rich person at a time. Then she's imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit. Entertaining, shocking and addictive… THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘I loved this book’ RICHARD OSMAN‘Funny, sharp, dark and twis...

'Made me laugh and flinch in equal measure' Sophie KinsellaEliza is angry. Very angry, and very, very hot.Late for work and dodging traffic, she's still reeling from the latest row with husband Paddy. Twenty-something years ago, their eyes met over the class divide in oh-so-cool Britpop London, but while Paddy now seems content filling his downtime with canal boats and cricket, Eliza craves the freedom and excitement of her youth. Fifty soun...

Bestselling author Tim Lebbon's electrifying horror novel - now made into a Netflix original movie starring Stanley Tucci and Kiernan ShipkaIn the darkness of an underground cave system, blind creatures hunt by sound. Then there is light, there are voices, and they feed...Swarming from their prison, the creatures thrive and destroy. To scream, even to whisper, is to summon death.As the hordes lay waste to Europe, a girl watches to see if they will c...

As soon as Octavia caught a glimpse of Jeremy in the nightclub, she knew she just had to have him. It didn't matter that he'd just got engaged to an old school friend of hers, plump, good natured Gussie; he was looking at Octavia in the way that suggested bed rather than breakfast, and she was weak at the knees... But Octavia was used to men falling in love with her at a moment's notice - it happened all the time if you were as rich and as stunning as she was. An invitation to join Gussie ...

'A fabulous closed-room mystery that will keep you guessing' - DENISE MINA'Fabulous Dublin-based crime. Very much in the vein of Tana French' - JO SPAIN'This creeps up on you until you're hooked' - HEATTHEY DID IT TO THEMSELVESBUT SOMEONE WAS WATCHINGThe Macnamara sisters hadn't been seen for months before anyone noticed. It wa...

In this sparkling romantic comedy, a young journalist tampers with her magazine's horoscopes to win her friend's heart - and sets in motion an unpredictable and often hilarious ripple effect . . .When Justine Carmichael (Sagittarius, aspiring journalist and sceptic) bumps into her old friend Nick Jordan (Aquarius, struggling actor and true believer) it could be by chance. Or it could be written in the stars.Justine works at the Alexandria Park Star...

A philandering art dealer tries to give up casual love affairs - seeking only passionate kisses as a substitute. A man recounts his personal history through the things he has stolen from others throughout his life. A couple chart the journey of their five year relationship backwards, from awkward reunion to lovelorn first encounter. And, at the heart of the book, a 24-year old young woman, Bethany Mellmoth, embarks on a year-long journey of wishful and tentative self-discovery....

Something's happened.A lot of things have happened.If she could turn back time, she wondered how far she would go.Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Living alone in a month-to-month sublet in London, with no family but an estranged sister, no boyfriend or partner, and not much in the way of friends, Maggie is just the kind of person who could vanish from the face of the earth...

Maxim Jakubowski has once again compiled a blockbuster collection of the year's most outstanding short crime fiction published in the UK. His aim is always to present the whole breadth of crime, mystery and thriller writing, from gentle stories of detection to puzzling historical labyrinths full of devious characters and sharp social comment about our imperfect society in some savage, and often scary stories.Last year saw a fifth Crime Writers Association Short Story Dagger award f...