Joseph Delaney

For years, Old Gregory has been the Spook for the county, ridding the local villages of evil....

As the Spook's apprentice, Thomas Ward's first duty is to protect the County from ghosts, boggarts, and other dangerous creatures....

An assassin lurks in the darkness between earth and oblivion - but who are they, and what is their mission?

The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, deal with the dark....

Thomas Ward was working as the new County Spook, fighting the Dark with his own apprentice....

Something is terrorizing the villages of the county. People are dying - covered in blood, their faces frozen in fear. But with not a wound on their bodies....

Thomas Ward is the apprentice for the local Spook, who banishes boggarts and drives away ghosts....

It's going to be a long, hard, cruel winter. And there couldn't be a worse place to spend it than up on Anglezarke....

Thomas Ward has spent two years as the Spook's apprentice. He's faced unimaginable peril, and survived. But a new danger has emerged: an ancient water witch, Bloodeye....

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Beast Awakens by Joseph Delaney, read by Lee Ingleby....