Mortal Coil

Name: Mortal Coil
Brand: HarperCollins New Zealand
SKU: 9780008667405
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By Derek Landy

Series: Skulduggery Pleasant

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Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior. Oh yeah. And dead. Mortal Coil brings Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain back just in time to see their whole world turned upside down. With Valkyrie struggling to protect her dark secret, Skulduggery and the gang are more vulnerable than... Read More

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Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior.

Oh yeah. And dead.

The Sunday Times bestselling dark fantasy adventure for children ages 11+

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Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior.

Oh yeah. And dead.

Mortal Coil brings Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain back just in time to see their whole world turned upside down.

With Valkyrie struggling to protect her dark secret, Skulduggery and the gang are more vulnerable than ever, just as a plague of body-snatching Remnants are released upon the world…

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780008667405

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 January 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: HarperCollins

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 36.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 360g

Pages: 576

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Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Derek Landy Series: Skulduggery Pleasant Young Adult

About the Author

Derek Landy lives near Dublin. Before writing his children's story about a sharply dressed skeleton detective, he wrote the screenplays for a zombie movie and a murderous horror film. "I think my career-guidance teacher is spinning in her grave," he says, "or she would be if she were dead."

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