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  <name><![CDATA[Joseph Delaney]]></name>
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  <fans-count type="integer">38</fans-count>
  <followers-count type="integer">22</followers-count>
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  <about><![CDATA[Joseph Delaney is a retired English teacher living in Lancashire. He has three children and seven grandchildren and is a wonderful public speaker available for conference, library and bookshop events. His home is in the middle of Boggart territory and his village has a boggart called the Hall Knocker, which was laid to rest under the step of a house near the church.

Most of the places in the Spook's books are based on real places in Lancashire. And the inspiration behind the stories often comes from local ghost stories and legends.

[book:The Spook's Apprentice], [book:The Spook's Curse] and [book:The Spook's Secret] have all been shortlisted for the Lancashire children's Book for the Year Award. [book:The Spook's Apprentice] is the winner of both the Sefton Book Award and the Hampshire Book Award.

&lt;i&gt;from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rbooks.co.uk/author.aspx?id=15205&quot;&gt;publisher's website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>        
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Revenge of the Witch (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, Book 1)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Joseph Delaney]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/146374.Joseph_Delaney]]></link>
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  <average_rating>4.06</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1252</ratings_count>
  <published>2004</published>  
  
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        <book id="256598">
  <title><![CDATA[Curse of the Bane (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, Book 2)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Joseph Delaney]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/146374.Joseph_Delaney]]></link>
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  <average_rating>4.18</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>793</ratings_count>
  <published>2006</published>  
  
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        <book id="298568">
  <title><![CDATA[Night of the Soul Stealer (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, Book 3)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Joseph Delaney]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/146374.Joseph_Delaney]]></link>
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  <average_rating>4.16</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>667</ratings_count>
  <published>2007</published>  
  
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        <book id="1395209">
  <title><![CDATA[Attack of the Fiend (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, Book 4)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Joseph Delaney]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/146374.Joseph_Delaney]]></link>
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  <average_rating>4.32</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>510</ratings_count>
  <published>2008</published>  
  
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        <book id="2330711">
  <title><![CDATA[The Spook's Mistake (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, Book 5)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Joseph Delaney]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/146374.Joseph_Delaney]]></link>
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  <average_rating>4.35</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>185</ratings_count>
  <published>2008</published>  
  
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        <book id="5163746">
  <title><![CDATA[The Spook's Tale: And Other Horrors]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Joseph Delaney]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/146374.Joseph_Delaney]]></link>
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  <average_rating>3.58</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>107</ratings_count>
  <published>2009</published>  
  
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        <book id="6767396">
  <title><![CDATA[Wrath of the Bloodeye (The Last Apprentice Book 5)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Joseph Delaney]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.07</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>41</ratings_count>
  <published>2008</published>  
  
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        <book id="6097180">
  <title><![CDATA[The Spook's Sacrifice]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Joseph Delaney]]></name>
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    </author>
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  <average_rating>4.41</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>37</ratings_count>
  <published>2009</published>  
  
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        <book id="6948089">
  <title><![CDATA[The Last Apprentice: Clash of the Demons]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Joseph Delaney]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.17</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>18</ratings_count>
  <published>2009</published>  
  
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        <book id="6657482">
  <title><![CDATA[Greseala Vraciului (Cronicile Wardstone, #6)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Joseph Delaney]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/146374.Joseph_Delaney]]></link>
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  <average_rating>5.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>2</ratings_count>
  <published>2008</published>  
  
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