Caroline O'Donoghue

When her friend mysteriously vanishes after drawing an unsettling tarot card called The Housekeeper, Maeve uses her deep connection with the cards to search for clues the police cannot find.

All Our Hidden Gifts

Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it’s love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork city, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while the threat of the financial crash looms before them.

When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr. Fred Byrne, James helps her devise a reading at their local bookstore, with the goal that she might seduce him afterwards. But Fred has other desires. So begins a series of secrets and compromises that intertwine the fates of James, Rachel, Fred, and Fred’s glamorous, well-connected, bourgeois wife. Aching with unrequited love, shot through with delicious, sparkling humor, THE RACHEL INCIDENT is a triumph.

The Rachel Incident

The Gifts That Bind Us

'I loved it. The writing is whipsmart and so witty. A fabulous and timely novel.' Marian Keyes 'So brilliant ... Compelling and illuminating ... I highly recommend it.' Dolly Alderton 'A future classic.' Jane Casey Jane Peters is an adrift twenty-something by day, and a world-weary agony aunt by night. But when an office party goes too far, Jane dissolves into the high-stakes world of being the Other Woman: a role she has the right advice for, but not the smarts to follow through on. What starts out as a drunken mistake quickly unravels as Jane discovers that sex and power go hand-in-hand, and that it's hard to keep your head when you've become someone else's dirty little secret. And soon, her friendships, her sanity and even her life are put into jeopardy... 'Sharp, pithy and engaging' Irish Times 'Brilliant' Elle 'Deeply relatable and darkly comic ... It'll have you nodding with familiarity, thinking, laughing - and crying - as you race towards the end' Grazia 'I loved Promising Young Women. It's like Bluebeard crossed with The Yellow Wallpaper neck-deep in zeitgeist. If Angela Carter was stuck in a soulless corporate job this would be the dark, delicious result' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti

Promising Young Women

Charlie and her best friend Laura journey to her ancestral home of Clipim. Knowing this could be the last chance to connect with her dad's history before she loses him, Charlie clings to the idea of her Irish roots offering some kind of solace. But when the girls arrive at Clipim, Charlie begins to question both her difficult relationship with Laura and her father's childhood stories

Scenes of a Graphic Nature

Every Gift a Curse

Helen Oyeyemi

Margaret Atwood

Rachel Seiffert

Stella Duffy

Kamila Shamsie

Kirsty Logan

Emma Donoghue

Linda Grant

Ali Smith

Chibundu Onuzo

Eleanor Crewes

Susie Boyt

Claire Kohda

Cn Lester

DRAGON. TIGRESS. SHE-DEVIL.
For centuries past, and all across the world,
HUSSY. SIREN. WENCH.
there are words that have defined and decried us.
HARRIDAN. MUCKRAKER. SPITFIRE.
Words that raise our hackles,
VITUPERATOR. CHURAIL. TERMAGANT.
fire up our blood;
FURY. WARRIOR. VIRAGO.
words that tell a story.

In this blazing cauldron of a book, fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers have taken up their pens and reclaimed these words, creating an entertaining and irresistible collection of feminist tales for our time.

Stories of the wicket, wild and untamed

Furies

Maeve Chambers ist eine Idiotin - zumindest verglichen mit ihrer Familie voller Genies. Und weil sie ihre Kindheitsfreundin Lily vergrault hat. Erst als sie im Schulkeller ein Tarotkartenspiel findet, zeigt sich ihr wahres Talent. Denn quasi über Nacht macht sie den Mädchen aus ihrer Klasse beängstigend genaue Vorhersagen. Dann verschwindet Lily, nachdem Maeve ihr ungefragt die Karten legt. Schnell wird klar, dass übernatürliche Kräfte im Spiel sind. Und es braucht besondere Talente, um Lily zu retten. Zusammen mit Lilys nichtbinärem Bruder Roe und Mitschülerin Fiona begibt sich Maeve auf eine gefährliche Suche.

Moderne Urban Fantasy der Extraklasse

All our hidden gifts - Die Macht der Karten (All our hidden gifts 1)

Esoterismo, ingenio y misticismo... Una lectura mágica. Las sagaces lecturas del tarot de Maeve la convierten en la comidilla del colegio, hasta que una compañera de clase saca una carta escalofriante y desconocida... Y después desaparece.

Nuestros Poderes Ocultos / All Our Hidden Gifts

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Fantasy pro mládež, kde se milostné vztahy a genderové otázky prolínají s tarotem a magií. Maeve najde ve škole balíček podivných tarotových karet a s nadšením se pustí do studia vykládání budoucnosti. Když začne číst z karet svým spolužákům, bere to zpočátku jako zábavnou hru. Spolužáci jsou jejím uměním nadšení a ve škole se o ničem jiném nemluví. Pak si ale Maevina bývalá kamarádka Lily vytáhne znepokojivou kartu s názvem Hospodářka, která by v balíčku být neměla. Maeve odmítne Lily prozradit, co karta znamená, a děvčata se kvůli tomu pohádají. Jejich vášnivý spor skončí Maeviným nepromyšleným prohlášením, že by byla nejraději, kdyby Lily zmizela. V pondělí však Lily skutečně nepřijde do školy, a když se na ni Maeve zeptá, dozví se, že se po ní slehla zem...Nakladatelská anotace.

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seine Mitbewohnerin zu werden. Um wiederum Rachels angebeteten Literaturprofessor Dr. Fred Byrne näherzukommen und ihn zu verführen, organisieren James und Rachel eine Lesung im Buchladen, die sich am Ende ganz anders entwickelt als gedacht. Denn Fred Byrne verfolgt seine eigenen Interessen. Und so verstricken sich die Leben dieser drei Menschen vor dem Hintergrund der Finanzkrise in Cork immer rasanter ineinander. 

Die Sache mit Rachel

Maeve and her friends have spent the summer practising their gifts: Maeve can read minds, Roe can pick locks, Fiona can heal and Lily channels electricity. What's more, Roe and Maeve are officially an item. But with strange things happening at school and old enemies appearing in new places, it's clear their powers are attracting the wrong attention. And it's not long before Maeve's gift starts to wane, drained by someone, or something, hiding even from her second sight.

The Gifts that Bind Us

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Magic-sensitive Maeve and her friends face off against an insidious threat to their school and their city in this spellbinding sequel to All Our Hidden Gifts. It’s senior year, and Maeve and her friends are practicing and strengthening their mystical powers, while Maeve’s new relationship with Roe is exhilarating. But as Roe’s rock star dreams start to take shape, and Fiona and Lily make plans for faraway colleges, Maeve, who struggles in school, worries about life without them—will she be selling incense here in Kilbeg, Ireland, until she’s fifty? Alarm bells sound for the coven when the Children of Brigid, a right-wing religious organization, quickly gains influence throughout the city—and when its charismatic front man starts visiting Maeve in her dreams. When Maeve’s power starts to wane, the friends realize that all the local magic is being drained—or rather, stolen. With lines increasingly blurred between friend and foe, the supernatural and the psychological, Maeve and the others must band together to protect the place, and the people, they love. A thrilling sequel to All Our Hidden Gifts.

Maeve er et udskud, som ingen venner har. Men en dag finder hun en pakke tarotkort i et skab på skolen, som hun på mystisk vis har et talent for at kunne aflæse. Pludselig vil alle på skolen have forudsagt deres fremtid af Maeve. Hendes popularitet begynder at stige, lige indtil hun ser noget foruroligende i klassekammeraten Lilys kort - og dagen efter forsvinder Lily sporløst. Politiet er bar bund, og Maeve må bruge kortene til at finde spor. Det bliver begyndelsen på en farefuld og indviklet efterforskning, som bliver endnu mere kompliceret, da Maeve begynder at falde for Roe, som er Lilys søskende og har en flydende kønsidentitet.

Caroline O'Donoghue

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