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The U.S. audiobooks were produced by Harper Audio. Christopher Evan Welch read Books 1 through 10, and he was joined by Angela Goethals in reading Book 11. Welch also read the short story collection The Spook's Tale And Other Horrors. Welch died of lung cancer in 2013. Angela Goethals read Book 12 and Alexander Cendese read Book 13.
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. The Starblade Chronicles are 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. However, unlike past Spooks, Tom is only seventeen, and he is met with doubt and distrust by many in the County owing to his age. Complicating matters is his interactions with Jenny; the sixteen-year-old girl who seeks to be his apprentice, notwithstanding that women have never been Spooks before. The BiblioFiles: Joseph Delaney" (PDF). Cotsen Children's Library. Princeton University Library. 18 April 2009 . Retrieved 18 August 2022.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?) Adriana: a bird witch on the Isle of Mona who allies herself with Ward, Gregory, and Alice Deane and helps thwart/kill Lizzie.
This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( August 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Thomas Jason Ward: apprentice to John Gregory and the seventh son of a seventh son, also the son of the ancient and powerful sorceress Lamia; from his father he has inherited the gifts of a spook and from his mother the ability to speed up, slow down, and halt time, the ability to locate his prey supernaturally, the ability to heal from otherwise-fatal wounds like a Lamia witch, and a "Lamia form" that increases his strength, speed, durability, and healing but also anger and bloodlust. Half-Minute Horrors (contributing author of "All Fingers and Thumbs" to this short story anthology) – 2009 The Ghost Prison (The book occupies the same world as The Wardstone Chronicles, but with different characters and story lines) – 2013 Goods that by reason of their nature, cannot be returned - (Items such as underwear, where the 'hygiene patch' has been removed, or cosmetics where the seal has been broken).Applicability of cancellation rights: Legal rights of cancellation under the Distance Selling Regulations available for UK or EU consumers do not apply to certain products and services. The books take place from the first-person perspective of many different characters; The Spook, Grimalkin, Alice Deane and most importantly and prolifically Tom Ward. The story follows the life of Tom Ward during his apprenticeship with the Spook and the adventures and creatures he, the Spook and his love interest, Alice encounter. The Spook's Stories: Witches - A collection of five short stories [ Meg Skelton; Dirty Dora; Grimalkin's Tale; Alice And The Brain Guzzler; The Banshee Witch]. (2009) The first book in the series, The Spook's Apprentice was published by Bodley Head in 2004, and the last book in the series, The Spook's Revenge, was published in 2013.
When Johnson finally overreaches himself and is overcome by a powerful witch, Wulf sets off in search of the only person in the whole County who might be able to help. He travels to Chipenden to request the help of Tom Ward. a b c d Eccleshare, Julia (2 September 2022). "Joseph Delaney obituary". The Guardian . Retrieved 6 September 2022. The illustrator for the original and UK releases is David Wyatt, providing the original series covers and the illustrations for each chapter. He was a wonderful dad and a deeply caring man with an infectious sense of humour, especially after a glass of red wine. 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.
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Delaney, Joseph. "The Spook's Apprentice - Play Edition". www.penguin.co.uk . Retrieved 2019-10-16. 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.
YALSA Fabulous Films & Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults". School Library Journal . Retrieved 4 October 2012.The Spook's Bestiary – A guidebook to the creatures found in The Wardstone Chronicles universe. Published in the US as The Last Apprentice – The Spook's Bestiary: The Guide to Creatures of the Dark. – 2010 Book review: The Spook's Bestiary by Joseph Delaney". Isle of Man Today . Retrieved 4 October 2012. [ permanent dead link]
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