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 ...

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 ...

THOUGH the infamous partnership of Burke and Hare most definitely engaged in skulduggery. The word itself had nothing to do with their means of employment, which usually involved body snatching or ...

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 ...

To celebrate the last book in the Skulduggery series, Derek Landy held an immersive theatre event, Theatre of Shadows, live on the streets of Dublin – site member ...

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 ...

HarperCollins is to release the final trio in the second Skulduggery Pleasant series which promises “blood will be spilled, pages will be turned, and tears will be shed”. Fiction publisher Nick Lake ...

I never really considered there being a time in my life when I would be running through the streets of Dublin, screaming at the top of my lungs whilst being chased by bad guys from my favourite book ...