Red House Awards
A Bentley-driving living skeleton named Skulduggery Pleasant is the unlikely protagonist of the latest book award winner from the UK.
The Red House Children’s Book Awards were announced at the Hay Festival this weekend, and Irish writer Derek Landy’s witty, gothic-horror title was declared overall winner. These children’s choice awards have been running an astonishing 28 years.
Skulduggery seems just as popular in Australia as in the rest of the English-reading world. The sequel, Playing with Fire, has recently become available.
