The Spooks Books 1 - 13 Complete Wardstone Chronicles Collection Set by Joseph Delaney ( Apprentice, Curse, Secret, Battle, Destiny, Alice, Revenge & MORE!)

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He travelled widely to promote his books, spending lots of the winter in New Zealand and Singapore, as he hated the cold, but most of his time was spent in his home county Lancashire – a place embedded in all of his writing. Joe was writing right up until the end of his life and was about to embark on the next round of edits for the fourth in his Brother Wulf sequence. The series is known by many different names: The Spook's Books, The Spook's Series, Spook's, The Spook's Apprentice Series, The Wardstone Chronicles and finally, the US editions, The Last Apprentice due to potentially American racial slang. The first book in the series, The Spook's Apprentice, was released as a movie adaption in 2015: The Seventh Son. Tom Ward has lived his whole life in the County (loosely based on the English county of Lancashire). Because he is the seventh son of a seventh son and thus has the ability to see ghosts and fight other supernatural beings, his parents have apprenticed him to the Spook, a cloaked man named John Gregory (because only seventh sons of seventh sons have the aforementioned abilities, all spooks are seventh sons of seventh sons). Tom's mother, referred to as Mam, sent a letter to the Spook shortly after Tom's birth alerting him to his status as a seventh son of a seventh and promising that Tom would be "the best apprentice [the Spook will ever have, who will] also be [his] last." The Spook travels the County fighting troublesome creatures such as boggarts, ghosts, ghasts, and witches for the people who need these things gone. Tom will have to learn how the Spook fights "the Dark", so that he may one day become a Spook as well.

Bill Arkwright: the Spook for the county north of Caster, and a previous apprentice of John Gregory. He is killed helping the others escape the Ord.

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From 2015 to 2017, Delaney published the science fiction Arena 13 trilogy. [10] He published the dark fantasy Aberrations series from 2018 to 2019. [11]

The first series, titled The Wardstone Chronicles, concluded in 2013, and was followed by The Starblade Chronicles in 2014, a trilogy following the continued adventures of Tom Ward, who has finished his apprenticeship and is now a Spook in his own right dedicated to fighting an unparalleled evil threatening the County, and the world. The Spook’s Apprentice was first published just before I joined Random House Children’s Books (now Penguin Random House Children’s) and so Joe and his totally unique blend of fantasy-horror have been a part of my entire working life. I was so proud to have been his editor for many years. It was frustrating at times – we would meet for a beer in Manchester and in response to my questions he would simply smile and remind me every time that he followed ‘The Bram Stoker’ method of writing (meaning nothing was ever planned or plotted in advance!) so I would have to wait for answers – but it was also of course completely magical as the creatures and characters from his worlds would slowly come into focus, journeying into brilliantly terrifying adventures. I hope he’s with the ghosts of his beloved Lancashire now and that there’s some delicious red wine on tap. We are so very proud to publish him.” Welcome to josephdelaneyauthor.com Joseph Delaney on The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch (Book 1)". HarperCollins. Archived from the original on 4 September 2014 . Retrieved 4 April 2020. Are there benign withes who belong to the dark and others who don’t?(Agnes Sowerbutts is considered to be a benign witch but she is known to use the dark, such as the nail biting thing, but Mam is benign a witch who doesn’t use the dark apart from mirrors. In other words can you be a benign witch without belonging to the dark?)

Dissatisfied with the cruelty of her relatives and fellow Pendle witches, Alice tentatively aligns herself with Tom, whom she befriends. However, Gregory remains distrustful of the young witch and his principles keep him in steadfast opposition to the use of dark magic, in which Alice still participates. This conflict over Alice leads to tension between Tom and Gregory in future installments.