Specsavers Children's Book of the Year (Senior)

Shortlist 2025

The Doomsday Club

The Doomsday Club

By Kevin Moran

Detention can wait. Saving the world comes first …

Jack and Conan’s friendship is officially dead. Stuck in detention with Yash and Jerry after an all-out brawl in the toilet, it’s a terrible start to sixth class.

And that’s before they witness a monstrous beast step out of a portal outside their school. When it wanders into the crumbling mansion across the road, where the sinister Mr Kilroe lives, the boys follow. They have to investigate, right? Unlocking Mr Kilroe’s secrets is only the beginning. Because there’s more than one otherworldly horror hiding in that house and confronting it will put Jack and Conan in mortal danger – that’s if they don’t kill each other first!

About Kevin Moran...

Kevin Moran is a children’s author and primary-school teacher. From Castlebar, County Mayo, he lives and works in Dublin. He was runner-up in the Staróg Prize for children’s fiction in 2023. He wrote his first book, ‘Ghost Invaders’, when he was six. It remains buried in an attic, unpublished. When not writing, Kevin can often be found on the beach near his home in Dublin, being walked by his golden retriever.

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