The paradox of book reviews is that it's hard to know whether you'd be interested in a book unless you know something about it first; but quite often a review tells you more than you'd want to know so ...

THE DOOR burst open and Eddie shrieked and whirled and fell backwards over the stupidly low coffee table his wife had insisted on buying despite Eddie’s tendency to shriek and fall backwards over ...

A dozen years ago, Derek Landy made a splash by selling his first manuscript, Skulduggery Pleasant, to HarperCollins and HarperChildren’s UK in a three-book deal worth $1.8 million. The books were ...

Derek Landy has kept us well entertained before and since the record-breaking success of Skulduggery Pleasant (2009) - Demon Road, Desolation, American Monsters, to name a few. Understandably, you ...

Derek Landy is excited. Next week, he’s going to see two of his favourite 80s films on the big screen for the first time. His publisher Harper Collins is hosting screenings of Joe Dante’s Gremlins and ...

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant. He is a detective, magician and a warrior. Oh yes, he's also dead. When Stephanie's rich and famous Uncle Gordon dies, Stephanie has to go to the reading of the will. A few ...

True-life horror: You write a series with 13 award-winning bestsellers and number-14 is eagerly awaited and pre-ordered by fans worldwide and then... it accidentally gets released online. The ...

I’ve only read a couple of long series of books and loved them; but I have a good feeling about the Skulduggery Pleasant series. As after I read the first book, the second soon took its place. The ...

Skulduggery Pleasant is a series surrounding the life of Stephanie Edgley/ Valkyrie Cain. When her uncle died a few years ago and she was attacked by a magic wielding lunatic and was saved by the ...