Teen & Young Adult Book of the Year

Shortlist 2024

Something's About To Blow Up by Sam Blake

Something’s About To Blow Up

By Sam Blake

When an explosion rips through the chemistry lab at Raven’s Hill School and six girls are injured, the first thought is that it’s an experiment gone wrong. Then the Gardaí start investigating and suspect a bomb. But who could it have been targeting, and why?

SIX GIRLS.

A DEVASTATING EXPLOSION.

WILL THEY UNCOVER THE TRUTH IN TIME?

About Sam Blake...

Sam Blake is a bestselling writer whose books have been shortlisted for Irish Crime Novel of the Year three times. Under her real name, Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin, she is the founder of Writing.ie, The Inkwell Group and Murder One. This is her second YA novel, following Something Terrible Happened Last Night, which was shortlisted for the Great Reads Awards and the Teen and YA Book of the Year Award. Follow her on social media at @samblakebooks.

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