Earlier on in the year, one of my friends was poking me to start reading the Darren Shan books. I’m quite the wimp when it comes to horror, and the best I’ve managed is the Point Horror Unleashed...

Grubbs Grady finally comes into his own as a master of magic - reluctantly. Shan's visceral fiction is so good. It's amazing to think that a generation ago this would have been considered adult...

The latest of Darren Shan's "Demonata" sequence (book 6) has been highly awaited by bloodthirsty young teenagers all over the country. It picks up from the cliffhanger ending of Blood Beast and...

Synopsis: The fifth book in the Demonata series. A welcome return to the continuing story of Grubbs Grady, Dervish and Billy-E. Grubbs has so far seemed to avoid the family’s werewolf curse but...

Fans of Darren Shan's books know they are laced with excitement, horror and gore.His phenomenonally successful Demonata series, which began with Lord Loss and continued through Demon Thief,...

It's seven years since Darren Shan's novel Cirque du Freak made its debut on the boookshelves. In that time, he's clocked up sales of ten million, built up a loyal and bloodthirsty fan base and...

"The Grubbster" grows up and out with his newly muscled physique and a clique of friends to go with it, but puberty equals the family were-curse, and although he is cool by day, Grubbs is sweating...

Blood Beast puts readers back into modern day, about 1000 years after where Bec left off. It is another Grubbs Grady novel, so the ongoing storyline is the constant awareness that something...

Darren Shan continues his gruesome Demonata series on top form in Blood Beast. Grubbs Grady discovers more about his family curse on a nightmare ride to Hell. Children of 12+ should lap it up.

After four thrilling novels featuring Grubbs Grady and his adventures with his crazy but caring uncle, his half- brother, Bill-E, and all the demons and monsters he's had to face (especially the...

“So here I am. I want to be an average teenager whose only worries are puberty, acne, scoring with girls, impressing my friends, and getting through school in one piece. But I’m forced to spend the...

Here's another horrific, edge-of-the-seat gore fest that will be in big demand from anyone who has ever whipped through Shan's previous volumes. Grubbs Grady, the protagonist of the first and third...