A rip-roaring adventure, proving Shan isn’t reliant on gore to keep readers engrossed, says Verbal.

The prolific and hugely popular Darren Shan will be familiar to many parents for the...

This import from the UK is the first installment of a bleak dystopian trilogy set in a mysterious, unnamed city. The Cardinal, the man who rules of this metropolis, kills Capac Raimi's uncle and...

PROCESSION OF THE DEAD by Darren Shan. This fantasy is set in a rather dystopian future city where sin and crime reign supreme and is the first book in The City series. Capac Raimi arrives in...

PROCESSION OF THE DEAD, the premiere book in a new series, The City, is Darren Shan's first foray into adult novels. We knew his Cirque du Freak novels were dark and creepy (if for a younger...

"If the Cardinal pinched the cheeks of his arse, the walls of the city bruised. They were that close, Siamese twins, joined by a wretched, twisted soul."

Capac Raimi arrives in the city...

Darren Shan, an already prolific children/young adult author makes his adult novel debut with Procession of the Dead (The City).

Young, witty and ambitious Capac Raimi arrives in the City...

This is the kind of story where the last hundred pages makes me glad that I stuck with the first two hundred. That’s not to say that I didn’t enjoy Procession of the Dead until the end, but that...

First of all, it took me longer to finish a Darren Shan book than usual because the book is bigger in size and has more pages.
This is a review about the book The Thin Executioner:
The story is...

We had Darrenn Shan on this programme not so long ago talking about vampires. This isn't one of his vampire or demon books, it's a one-off fantasy with Arabian nights flavour.

Jebel is the...

Parents worldwide owe a great debt to both Darren Shan and Derek Landy for keeping their teenagers reading. Two of the most successful children's writers this country has ever produced, along...

Gangster fantasy - call it thugpunk - with a curious history: The book, a revised version of Ayuamarca: Procession of the Dead (1999), resurfaced in the U.K. in 2008 as the first of a trilogy;...