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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 was a full time writer living in Lancashire, in the heart of Boggart territory.

He was 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 conti Joseph Delaney was a full time writer living in Lancashire, in the heart of Boggart territory.

He was 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 continued 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 described his method of writing as a process of discovery. He didn’t plot too far ahead and often didn’t know what is going to happen until he writes it down. In other words he made it up as he went along. He prefed writing dialogue to description, in which he said he is a minimalist and leaves much to the reader’s imagination.
Joseph had three children and nine grandchildren and was 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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Average rating: 4.14 · 285,840 ratings · 13,859 reviews · 59 distinct works • Similar authors

	Revenge of the Witch (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 53,944 ratings — published 2004 — 4 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) 4.13 avg rating — 32,695 ratings — published 2005 — 4 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 — 31,729 ratings — published 2007 — 3 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 — 24,989 ratings — published 2007 — 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
	The Spook's Mistake (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #5) 4.22 avg rating — 18,647 ratings — published 2008 — 5 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 — 16,546 ratings — published 2008 — 60 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 — 15,381 ratings — published 2011 — 62 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 — 15,384 ratings — published 2010 — 59 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) 4.26 avg rating — 10,597 ratings — published 2011 — 56 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 — 9,548 ratings — published 2012 — 54 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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Series by Joseph Delaney

The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles (13 books)
by

Joseph Delaney,

Patrick Arrasmith (Illustrator)

4.14 avg rating — 268,449 ratings

The Starblade Chronicles (3 books)
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Joseph Delaney

4.13 avg rating — 10,014 ratings

Arena 13 Trilogy (3 books)
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Joseph Delaney

4.06 avg rating — 2,549 ratings

The Spook's Apprentice: Brother Wulf (4 books)
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Joseph Delaney

4.28 avg rating — 1,558 ratings

Aberrations (2 books)
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4.19 avg rating — 1,011 ratings

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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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