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Derek Landy

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born
Lusk, Ireland

gender
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genre
Young Adult, Horror, Mystery & Thrillers


About this author

Derek Landy is an Irish writer and kenpo karate black belt. Two screenplays are films: IFTA award winning Dead Bodies and the IFTA nominated Boy Eats Girl. Landy himself was nominated for an IFTA for Best Script.
Derek Landy is far too modest to talk about any awards or accolades his books may have won, for instance, Skulduggery Pleasant won the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book of the Decade Award AND the Red House Children's Book Award, or that his second, Playing With Fire, won an Irish Book Award for Children's Book of the Year, or that his third, The Faceless Ones, is his mother's personal favourite.
He lives in Ireland with a variety of cats, a German Shepherd, and two geriatric Staffordshire Bull Terriers who keep peeing on his kitchen flo...more


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Books by Derek Landy

Average rating: 4.33 · 17,940 ratings · 2,237 reviews · 20 distinct works
Skulduggery Pleasant (Skuld...
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4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 6,714 ratings — published 2007 — 35 editions
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Playing with Fire (Skuldugg...
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 3,471 ratings — published 2008 — 23 editions
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The Faceless Ones (Skuldugg...
4.39 of 5 stars 4.39 avg rating — 2,746 ratings — published 2009 — 16 editions
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Dark Days (Skulduggery Plea...
4.47 of 5 stars 4.47 avg rating — 1,842 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions
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Mortal Coil (Skulduggery Pl...
4.54 of 5 stars 4.54 avg rating — 1,558 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions
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Death Bringer (Skulduggery ...
4.61 of 5 stars 4.61 avg rating — 975 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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The End of the World (Skuld...
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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The Lost Art of World Domin...
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2011
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4.91 of 5 stars 4.91 avg rating — 92 ratings
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4.9 of 5 stars 4.90 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Series by Derek Landy

Skulduggery Pleasant Playing with Fire The Faceless Ones Dark Days Mortal Coil Death Bringer The End of the World
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Quotes by Derek Landy

“Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant...The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives.”
― Derek Landy
tags: family , humor
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“Doors are for people with no imagination.”
― Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant
tags: creativity
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“Are you going to shoot me?' Vengeous sneered. 'I wouldn't be surprised. What would a thing like you know about honor? Only a heathen would bring a gun to a sword fight.'

And only a moron would bring a sword to a gunfight.”
― Derek Landy, Playing with Fire
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From the many books you have read which would have to be your all time favourite author?

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