SKULDUGGERY Pleasant was recently voted the Irish Book of the Decade, out of all genres published in the last 10 years. And it’s not hard to see why, when thousands of young readers have been ...

CHILDREN'S FICTION: Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil By Derek Landy Harper Collins, 572pp, £12.99IN THE COVER illustration of this thrilling and magical new novel – the fifth in the series – Derek ...

Mortal Coil, the fifth book in the series has been the most popular, certainly until this latest 600-page instalment appeared a month ago. Mortal Coil sold 56,000 hardback copies alone in the weeks ...

CANBERRA (Reuters) - As a fan of horror movies, martial arts and detective stories, Derek Landy thought he was set for a career writing screenplays until a skeleton detective stormed his imagination - ...

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 ...