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“A very tasty mix of the cinematic and the novelistic….against which a cast of vivid heroes and villains play out the rip-roaring storyline.” Publishing News
SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT is the hottest new title of 2007 and it will set the book world alight in more ways than one when it bursts into life on 2nd April.
A truly genre-busting book best described as comic horror adventure, it introduces an irresistible character, the great Skulduggery Pleasant. The wise-cracking Skulduggery is urbane, sophisticated and well-dressed. He’s a powerful magician with a particular penchant for fire, a master of dirty tricks and an ace burglar (all for the greater good, of course). Oh yeah, he’s also dead. He’s got a sidekick too. She’s…..well, she’s called Stephanie and she’s, ahem, she’s a twelve year old girl. With a double-act like this on the case, evil had better beware!
“A very tasty mix of the cinematic and the novelistic….against which a cast of vivid heroes and villains play out the rip-roaring storyline.” Publishing News
SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT is the hottest new title of 2007 and it will set the book world alight in more ways than one when it bursts into life on 2nd April.
A truly genre-busting book best described as comic horror adventure, it introduces an irresistible character, the great Skulduggery Pleasant. The wise-cracking Skulduggery is urbane, sophisticated and well-dressed. He’s a powerful magician with a particular penchant for fire, a master of dirty tricks and an ace burglar (all for the greater good, of course). Oh yeah, he’s also dead. He’s got a sidekick too. She’s…..well, she’s called Stephanie and she’s, ahem, she’s a twelve year old girl. With a double-act like this on the case, evil had better beware!
Skulduggery Pleasant is the creation of debut author, Derek Landy, a young Dubliner, whose life was changed forever when HarperCollins signed him up, sparking a chain of foreign rights deals and an explosion of interest at the Bologna Book Fair – and, crucially for Derek – finally putting an end to his days working on the family farm, where he had spent six long dark years. He had some success writing film scripts before Skulduggery came along. Dead Bodies, for example, is praised and pilloried in equal measure on the internet. Scripts seemed easier than books. After all, they were short, mostly dialogue, and had lots of white space. Books were really, really long and filled with words. Luckily for us, Skulduggery got into Derek’s head and wouldn’t leave him alone. He filled it with all the things Derek liked best – martial arts, super powers, action, magic, horror, mystery, murder and revenge. Wrapped up in a cracking story and Derek’s deadpan, sardonic line in humour Skulduggery Pleasant is a runaway success before the book is even published.
A Six-City tour is planned for April with exciting events, supported by a massive nationwide consumer PR and marketing campaign. Read it. Talk about it. Tell
For more information visit: https://www.skulduggerypleasant.co.uk
Buy Skulduggery Pleasant at WHSmith and get a free T-shirt*"
For your chance of a copy of Skulduggery Pleasant, simply answer the following question:
Skulduggery Pleasant is written by whom?
Answer
Derek Landy
“A very tasty mix of the cinematic and the novelistic….against which a cast of vivid heroes and villains play out the rip-roaring storyline.” Publishing News
SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT is the hottest new title of 2007 and it will set the book world alight in more ways than one when it bursts into life on 2nd April.
A truly genre-busting book best described as comic horror adventure, it introduces an irresistible character, the great Skulduggery Pleasant. The wise-cracking Skulduggery is urbane, sophisticated and well-dressed. He’s a powerful magician with a particular penchant for fire, a master of dirty tricks and an ace burglar (all for the greater good, of course). Oh yeah, he’s also dead. He’s got a sidekick too. She’s…..well, she’s called Stephanie and she’s, ahem, she’s a twelve year old girl. With a double-act like this on the case, evil had better beware!
“A very tasty mix of the cinematic and the novelistic….against which a cast of vivid heroes and villains play out the rip-roaring storyline.” Publishing News
SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT is the hottest new title of 2007 and it will set the book world alight in more ways than one when it bursts into life on 2nd April.
A truly genre-busting book best described as comic horror adventure, it introduces an irresistible character, the great Skulduggery Pleasant. The wise-cracking Skulduggery is urbane, sophisticated and well-dressed. He’s a powerful magician with a particular penchant for fire, a master of dirty tricks and an ace burglar (all for the greater good, of course). Oh yeah, he’s also dead. He’s got a sidekick too. She’s…..well, she’s called Stephanie and she’s, ahem, she’s a twelve year old girl. With a double-act like this on the case, evil had better beware!
Skulduggery Pleasant is the creation of debut author, Derek Landy, a young Dubliner, whose life was changed forever when HarperCollins signed him up, sparking a chain of foreign rights deals and an explosion of interest at the Bologna Book Fair – and, crucially for Derek – finally putting an end to his days working on the family farm, where he had spent six long dark years. He had some success writing film scripts before Skulduggery came along. Dead Bodies, for example, is praised and pilloried in equal measure on the internet. Scripts seemed easier than books. After all, they were short, mostly dialogue, and had lots of white space. Books were really, really long and filled with words. Luckily for us, Skulduggery got into Derek’s head and wouldn’t leave him alone. He filled it with all the things Derek liked best – martial arts, super powers, action, magic, horror, mystery, murder and revenge. Wrapped up in a cracking story and Derek’s deadpan, sardonic line in humour Skulduggery Pleasant is a runaway success before the book is even published.
A Six-City tour is planned for April with exciting events, supported by a massive nationwide consumer PR and marketing campaign. Read it. Talk about it. Tell
For more information visit: https://www.skulduggerypleasant.co.uk
Buy Skulduggery Pleasant at WHSmith and get a free T-shirt*"
For your chance of a copy of Skulduggery Pleasant, simply answer the following question:
Skulduggery Pleasant is written by whom?
Answer
Derek Landy
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