By Dennis Abrams LONDON: With over three million copies sold in the UK alone, it’s safe to say that Robert Muchamore’s CHERUB series is a bestselling phenomenon and Muchamore himself is in high demand as a school speaker. The series consists of 15 YA novels about a group of orphans working for a junior division of the British Security Service. …
Skulduggery Pleasant Named Irish Book of the Decade
By Siobhan O’Leary The young adult title Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy has bested titles by heavyweights Colm Tóibín, Cecelia Ahern, John Banville and Colum McCann to win the Irish Book Of The Decade title awarded by the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards (the award ceremony will take place in November 2010). The book, part of a four title …