Dark Lord: The Teenage Years

Name: Dark Lord: The Teenage Years
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

by Jamie Thomson, illustrated by Freya Hartas

Interest age: 9+
Reading age: 10+

Published by Orchard Books, 2011

Fantasy
Funny

About this book

The Dark Lord falls to earth, crash-landing in a suburban car park in the body of a teenage boy, spitting out poisonous mucus. His lieutenant, Dread Gargon, has disappeared, along with his powers of Domination and Destruction. Social services can’t locate his home, the Iron Tower of Despair, so 'Dirk' is placed with a foster family and forced to go to school. Desperate to return home, he tries to open a Portal between earth and the Darklands, but accidentally sets fire to the cricket pavilion. And then the White Beast from Dirk’s nightmares appears in the flesh...

A funny, bizarre, melodramatic, suspenseful read with unexpected and unbelievable happenings on almost every page.

About the author

Jamie Thomson is the minion and slave of the Dark Lord, Dirk Lloyd. He's an author and games developer who has written numerous choose-your-own-adventure style gamebooks and worked on many computer games from the Tower of Despair (1984) to Warrior Kings: Battles (2003) Jamie Thomson lives in the dungeons below his Master's Iron Tower in East Sussex, where he spends every day writing for his overlord. His book, Dark Lord: The Teenage Years, was the 2012 Roald Dahl Funny Prize winner.

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