Delaney, Joseph

Spook's Apprentice

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A fantastic story about a young boy training to be an exorcist in a land where dark things roam the night.One of the best modern children's tales I've read. This...

Curse Of The Bane

(The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles)

The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, rid the county of witches, ghosts, boggarts, and other creatures of the dark. And there's some unfinished business to attend to in Priestown....

Night Of The Soul Stealer

(The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles)

Tom is dismayed when his master the Spook decrees that they will be spending the winter on gloomy and forbidding Anglezarke Moor but soon discovers the reason for his master's...

Attack Of The Fiend

(The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles)

"I see your future clearly. Your master will be dead, and you will be alone. It would be better if you had never been born." Thomas Ward is the apprentice...

The Spook's Sacrifice

(The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles)

As the Spook's apprentice, Tom's first duty is to protect the County from the dark. But now Mam needs his help in her homeland of Greece. One of the most...

Rise Of The Huntress

(The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles)

Things can never be the same again. After a long journey and a hard battle, the Spook and his apprentice, Tom Ward, have returned home. But the county has been...

Rage Of The Fallen

(The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles)

Apprentice Tom and the Spook for whom he works flee to Ireland, where a powerful witch has joined forces with the dark mages trying to call forth ancient powers to...

I Am Grimalkin

(The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles)

'I am Grimalkin and I have already chosen those I will kill.' Grimalkin has made it her lifetime ambition to destroy the Fiend, avenging the brutal murder of her son....

The Spook's Blood

(The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles)

The Spook's Blood is the tenth book in Joseph Delaney's terrifying Wardstone Chronicles - over 3 million copies sold worldwide! 'I am Siscoi, the Lord of Blood, the Drinker of...

Slither

(The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles)

The eleventh volume in the spine-tingling, best-selling Last Apprentice series. In Slither, Joseph Delaney takes us far from the county, to a land where a spook has never set foot...

I Am Alice

(The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles)

The twelfth volume in the Last Apprentice series, the internationally bestselling fantasy adventure books that inspired the forthcoming major motion picture, Seventh Son. Told from the point of view of...

The Spook's Revenge

(The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles)

The Spook, his apprentice Tom Ward and Alice have fought evil side by side for years, and now they get ready for a large-scale fight with the Fiend, the final...

The Spook's Sacrifice

(The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles)

The Spook's Sacrifice is the sixth book in Joseph Delaney's terrifying Wardstone Chronicles - over 3 million copies sold worldwide! 'Witches, Mam? We've made an alliance with witches?' As the...

A Coven Of Witches

(The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles)

A collection of four short stories from the world of The Last Apprentice by Joseph Delaney, first published as Witches. In "Meg Skelton", we learn how the Spook met Meg...

I Am Grimalkin

(The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles)

I Am Grimalkin is the ninth book in Joseph Delaney's terrifying Wardstone Chronicles - over 3 million copies sold worldwide! 'I am Grimalkin, and I have already chosen those I...

The Spook's Apprentice

This book (and the rest of the Wardstone Chronicles) genuinely scared the absolute shit out of me when I first read it. It's the story of a young boy being...