The Spook's Apprentice No. 1 - Hardcover

Delaney, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0370328264 ISBN 13: 9780370328263

Publisher: Bodley Head, 2004

Synopsis

A wonderful and terrifying series by a new writer about a young boy training to be an exorcist. Thomas Ward is the seventh son of a seventh son and has been apprenticed to the local Spook. The job is hard, the Spook is distant and many apprentices have failed before Thomas. Somehow Thomas must learn how to exorcise ghosts, contain witches and bind boggarts. But when he is tricked into freeing Mother Malkin, the most evil witch in the County, the horror begins . . .

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Review:

" This thrilling and terrifying book should not be read after dark! - Parent: News An absorbing tale with scary scenarios and a great central relationship between Thomas and his master. - Funday Times Zounds! Delaney delights us with the power of his spooken words. Thought-provoking fantasy... A ruse by any other name would smell as sweet. - Bournemouth Daily Echo Teenage readers looking instead for total fantasy should hasten to Joseph Delaney's The Spook's Apprentice (Bodley Head, [pound]8.99). Clad in a sinister brown cover, this terrific novel is as black as David Wyatt's ingenious ink drawings that head each chapter.. Young Thomas can only just cope with these demons; the horrors he faces are made more credible by the cleverly laid-back way in which his story is told. - The Independent"

Book Description:

Not to be read after dark!!!!

About this edition

• Publisher: Bodley Head
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0370328264
• ISBN 13: 9780370328263
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336