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Teen & Young Adult Book of the Year

Winner 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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Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year
Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year
Eason Novel of the Year
Ireland AM Popular Fiction Book of the Year
The Last Word Listeners' Choice Award
Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year
TheJournal.ie Best Irish-Published Book of the Year
WHSmith Non-Fiction Book of the Year
Hodges Figgis History Book of the Year
Dubray Biography of the Year
Bookselling Ireland Food & Drink Book of the Year
Bookstation Lifestyle Book of the Year
Eason Sports Book of the Year
Specsavers Children's Book of the Year (Junior)
Specsavers Children's Book of the Year (Senior)
Gradam Love Leabhar Gaeilge Leabhar Ficsin Gaeilge na Bliana
New Irish Writing Best Poetry in association with the Irish Independent
New Irish Writing Best Short Story in association with the Irish Independent

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