Derek Landy Biography

In addition to the bestselling children's/YA series of #Skulduggery Pleasant# books, a supernatural mystery series starring Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton detective, and Valkyrie Cain, a young female magician, he has written two screenplays that have been made into films: the IFTA award winning "Dead Bodies" and the IFTA nominated "Boy Eats Girl". Landy himself was nominated for an IFTA for Best Script.

He doesn’t like to brag about all the awards he’s won, such as the Irish Book of the Decade, or the Red House in the UK, or all the other awards that he humbly displays on his mantelpiece. He is also far too modest to mention things like the first book being a Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of the Year, but would like to extend an invitation to Oprah to pop around one day for tea, in thanks for selecting his book for the Oprah’s Book Club Kids Reading List.

Derek plays too many video games, reads too many comics, and watches too many movies. He lives in Ireland with too many cats. Occasionally he talks to real people, but only when he absolutely has to.

Selected novels:

• Skulduggery Pleasant (2007)
• Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing With Fire (2008)
• Skulduggery Pleasant: The Faceless Ones (2009)
• Skulduggery Pleasant: Dark Days (2010)
• Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil (2010)
• Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer (2011)
• Skulduggery Pleasant: The End of the World (2012),
• Skulduggery Pleasant: Kingdom of the Wicked (2012)
• Doctor Who: "The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage", (2013)
• Tanith Low: The Maleficent Seven (2013)
• Skulduggery Pleasant: Last Stand of Dead Men (2013)
• Skulduggery Pleasant: Armageddon Outta Here (2014)
• Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying of the Light (2014)
• Demon Road (2015)
• Demon Road: Desolation (2016)
• Demon Road: American Monsters (2016)