In Common is an independent, not for profit community, arts, culture and society website, based in Southampton. This month, in the run up to Halloween, they put together a list of recommended...

Halloween is almost upon us -- just one week to go!!! It's the perfect time of year for Darren Shan books, and some schools and libraries are using the occasion to recommend my books to their...

I had a LONG video chat with vlogger KATIE O'SHAUGHNESSY recently. When I get asked to do something like this, I usually have to consider it for a bit of time, but in this instance I couldn't say...

That's Mrs Shan looking fabulous in the attached photo!! The reason I'm posting it?!? Well, basically, she is involved with Sanctuary Runners, a solidarity-through-sport movement with a particular...

Here it is, folks -- the FULL COVER REVEAL for the 25th anniversay edition of Cirque Du Freak!!!

In case you missed my previous posts... January 2025 will see the 25th anniversary of the first...

I've just now drawn the winners of my October competition, and it threw up a statistical anomaly that I can't recall ever having run into before over the course of the twenty-five years that I've...