I see that Warner Brothers have just bought the rights to Skulduggery Pleasant. The debut novel of Irish playwright Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant is the first of a planned nine book series. The novel crosses the horror, comedy, mystery and sci-fi genres. The story follows Skulduggery, an undead wizard and detective, his newly-acquired assistant Stephanie, and numerous magic-wielding allies as they try to prevent an evil sorcerer from unleashing a weapon of terrible power on the world. It won the Red House Children's Book Award. We have a copy in the library!The second book 'Playing with Fire' released earlier this year is also in the library and very popular. The stories convey no messages (other than playing with fire is a bad idea!!), but are probably better without them!
Skulduggery Pleasant is the best book I have read this year! Mr G
"I try not to depend on magic these days; I try to get by on what's up here." [Skulduggery] tapped his head."There's empty space up there.""Well, yes," he said irritably, "but you know what I mean."
Stephanie: "And am I going to be accompanying you?"Skulduggery: "That depends. Do you need your parents' permission?"Her parents wanted her to find her own way in life. That's what they'd said countless times in the past. Of course, they'd been referring to school subjects and college applications and job prospects. Presumably, at no stage did they factor living skeletons and magic underworlds into their considerations. If they had, their advice would probably have been very different. Stephanie shrugged. "No, not really.""Well, that's good enough for me."
