Joseph Delaney (1945-2022) was an English author of dark fantasy for young readers, born in Preston, Lancashire. A former teacher, he became known for The Spook's Apprentice (2004), the first of the Wardstone Chronicles, published in the United States as The Last Apprentice, which follows Tom Ward, apprenticed to the local spook who fights witches and boggarts in the County. The series, adapted for the cinema as Seventh Son (2014), continued in the Starblade Chronicles and Brother Wulf; he also wrote the Arena 13 trilogy.
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Joseph Delaney (1945-2022) was an English author of dark fantasy for young readers, born in Preston, Lancashire. A former teacher, he became known for The Spook's Apprentice (2004), the first of the Wardstone Chronicles, published in the United States as The Last Apprentice, which follows Tom Ward, apprenticed to the local spook who fights witches and boggarts in the County. The series, adapted for the cinema as Seventh Son (2014), continued in the Starblade Chronicles and Brother Wulf; he also wrote the Arena 13 trilogy.
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