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Joseph Delaney

Born

in Preston, Lancashire, England, The United Kingdom

July 25, 1945

Died

August 16, 2022

Genre

Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction & Fantasy

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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 continu 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.
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Wulf 3 Extract

I looked through the window again and was astonished at just how many people had assembled on the green. There must have been over thirty covens of witches and amongst them some men. They had gathered in groups. The bonfire at the centre looked bigger than ever. They’d probably added more wood.

This was a big enterprise. My suspicion was beyond doubt now. This would be no fleeting sabbath visit by Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 4.13 · 255,037 ratings · 12,541 reviews · 94 distinct works • Similar authors

	Revenge of the Witch (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 48,043 ratings — published 2004 — 113 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Curse of the Bane (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #2) by Joseph Delaney, Patrick Arrasmith (Illustrator) 4.12 avg rating — 29,828 ratings — published 2005 — 85 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night of the Soul Stealer (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #3) by Joseph Delaney, Patrick Arrasmith (Illustrator ) 4.14 avg rating — 29,272 ratings — published 2007 — 83 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Attack of the Fiend (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #4) by Joseph Delaney, Patrick Arrasmith (Illustrations) 4.21 avg rating — 22,841 ratings — published 2007 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spook's Mistake (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #5) 4.22 avg rating — 16,724 ratings — published 2008 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spook's Sacrifice (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #6) 4.20 avg rating — 14,831 ratings — published 2008 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rage of the Fallen (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #8) by Joseph Delaney, Patrick Arrasmith (Illustrator) 4.25 avg rating — 13,960 ratings — published 2011 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rise of the Huntress (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #7) 4.18 avg rating — 13,847 ratings — published 2010 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Am Grimalkin (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #9) 4.25 avg rating — 9,269 ratings — published 2011 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spook's Blood (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #10) 4.23 avg rating — 8,314 ratings — published 2012 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Joseph Delaney (?)

“Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid.”
― Joseph Delaney, Curse of the Bane

tags: afraid, apprentice, dark, delaney, last-apprentice, tom-ward

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“You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.”
― Joseph Delaney, Night of the Soul Stealer

tags: reading, studying, writting

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“The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.”
― Joseph Delaney, Curse of the Bane

tags: the-spook-s-curse, wardstone-chronicles

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