In association with The Ark, A Cultural Centre for Children

"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."
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Once in the bluest of blue moons comes a publishing phenomenon so obviously ripe for success it becomes a runaway hit before the ink is even dry on the page.

Enter stage left: Skulduggery Pleasant – the rollercoaster best-selling children's debut from former farmer turned literary sensation Dublin's own Derek Landy. Wisecracking, well-dressed and delightfully urbane, Skulduggery Pleasant is a powerful magician, master trickster and ace burglar. Oh yeah, he's also dead!

Together with his trusty sidekick Stephanie — a 12-year-old girl — Skulduggery‘s genre-busting comic-horror-adventures are played out against a gripping backdrop of murder, mystery, magic and revenge. Join the hottest new name in children's fiction for a bone-rattling spot of literary skulduggery.