Decade’s best
03 January 2020Lots of Best Of The Year lists get floated around at this time of the year, and since we're at the start of a new decade, there have also been lots of Best Of The Decade lists related to movies, TV...
Freaky fan art
02 January 2020I feature a lot of fan art over the course of any given year, and I thought it would be nice to kick off the 2020 collection with a drawing that didn't focus on one particular character, but on...
Shanville Monthly
01 January 2020Twenty years ago this month, in January 2000, a little book called Cirque Du Freak went on sale in the UK and Ireland. To celebrate the anniversary, as well as rounding up all the latest Darren...
A Darren Shan vlog?!?
31 December 2019I thought I'd close out 2019 with a short "address to the nation" -- well, an address to the Shan nation anyway! So here's a very rare Darren Shan vlog.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fFuHeJy9Pk
What makes Darren Shan cry?!?
30 December 2019It's almost the end of the year, a time for looking back and reflecting, so I felt this would be the perfect day to share these photos that a fan called Haley sent to me a while ago. Here's what...
Center Parcs photos
29 December 2019In the run-up to Christmas, the Shan clan decamped to the brand new Center Parcs in Longford, Ireland for a few days. We've stayed at the park in Elveden in the UK a few times over the years and...