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 ...

PRINCE WILLIAM's "unusual" intervention into the BBC investigation regarding the way the infamous interview with his mother, Princess Diana, was secured was as a result of his "horror" at the ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Skulduggery Pleasant: The End of the World by Derek Landy, £5 p/b World Book Day Special Edition (HarperCollins) THANK goodness for World Book Day as thousands of fans – my son included – were getting ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kneehigh's 'Skulduggery' is brought to us by the mischievous trio of regular performers Mary Woodvine, Carl Grose and Craig Johnson. This slippery three are jobbing pick-pockets with some very tall ...