Skulduggery Pleasant : Book 1 by Derek Landy

Skulduggery Pleasant : Book 1 by Derek LandyMeet the great Skulduggery Pleasant: wise cracking detective, powerful magician, master of dirty tricks and burglary (in the name of the greater good, of course). Oh yeah. And dead. Then there's his sidekick, Stephanie. She's well, she's a twelve year old girl. With a pair like this on the case, evil had better watch out "So you won't keep anything from me again?"He put his hand to his chest. "Cross my heart and hope to die.""Okay then. Though you

It rattles

He died from Motor Neuron Disease in 2018 shortly after publishing My Life as a Painter

George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community

political acts and private desires

and deliberately unsaid or missing information

he's on the hunt for a mythical object that will give him unimaginable power

'An incredible mouthpiece for modern intersectional feminism

Essays on leaving/searching/finding

she is beloved by Kunle

And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are savvy

'has occurred to someone sufficiently abstract as to allow us to romp gainfully

a song of mourning and revelation that deserves the widest possible audience