
Joseph Delaney is a full time writer living in Lancashire, in the heart of Boggart territory. He is the author of Wardstone Chronicles, Starblade Chronicles, Arena 13, Aberrations and a new book came out in April 2020, Brother Wulf. This is a new spooks story featuring Tom and Alice, but introducing a new character, a young monk called Brother Wulf. He first got the idea for the Spooks series when he moved to the village where he lives now and discovered there was a local boggart - ‘a man like me needs boggarts around’. He made a note in his notebook ‘a story about a man who hunts boggarts’ and years later when he had to come up with an idea at short notice developed this into ‘The Spook’s Apprentice’, the first book in the series. He continues to draw upon the folklore of Lancashire and has acquired much local knowledge over the years which he tweaks and modifies to create his fictional world. Another source of inspiration has been Lancashire's varied and atmospheric landscape. Many of the locations in the County are based on actual places in Lancashire. In the early days of his writing career Joseph worked as a teacher at a Sixth Form College: his subjects were English, Film and Media Studies. He used to get up early and write every morning before work. That way he could write a book a year – which promptly got rejected! When the Americans bought the series he decided to give up teaching and write full time. Prior to teaching he worked as an engineer in his twenties, completing an apprenticeship just like Tom Ward in the spook’s books. Joseph describes his method of writing as a process of discovery. He doesn’t plot too far ahead and often doesn’t know what is going to happen until he writes it down. In other words he makes it up as he goes along. He prefers writing dialogue to description, in which he says he is a minimalist and leaves much to the reader’s imagination. Joseph has three children and nine grandchildren and is a wonderful public speaker available for conference, library and bookshop events. The Spook's Apprentice, The Spook's Curse and The Spook's Secret have all been shortlisted for the Lancashire children's Book for the Year Award. The Spook's Apprentice is the winner of both the Sefton Book Award and the Hampshire Book Award. www.josephdelaneyauthor.com from publisher's website
Series
Books

The Seventh Apprentice
2014

A Coven of Witches
2009

Revenge of the Witch
2004

Attack of the Fiend
2007

Spook's
2016

Wulf's Bane
2021

The Last Apprentice
Clash of the Demons
2008

Half-Minute Horrors
2009

Night of the Soul Stealer
2007

The Last Apprentice
Grimalkin the Witch Assassin
2011

The Dark Assassin
2017

A New Darkness
2014

The Last Apprentice
Rise of the Huntress
2010

The Spook's Revenge
2013

The Ghost Prison
2013

The Spook's Blood
2012

The Last Apprentice
Rage of the Fallen
2011

The Prey
2016

Sedmý syn
2013

The Spook's Curse
Book 2 (The Wardstone Chronicles) by Delaney, Joseph
2025

The Warrior
2017

The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1976

The Spook's Mistake
2008

The Spook's Tale / Interception Point
2009

Brother Wulf
2020

Alice and the Brain Guzzler
2011

The Beast Awakens
2018

The Last Apprentice
Complete Collection
2014

The Last Spook
2022

The Spook's Stories
Grimalkin's Tale
2011

Spook's
Alice
2013

Arena 13
2015

The Witch's Warning
2019

Curse of the Bane
2005

The Last Apprentice
The Spook's Tale: And Other Horrors
2009

The Last Apprentice Prequel
2011

Spook's
Slither's Tale
2012