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  • Published: 1 February 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448123315
  • Imprint: RH AudioGo
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 8 hr 38 min
  • Narrator: Thomas Judd
  • RRP: $19.99

The Spook's Battle

Book 4




Warning: Not to be Read After Dark

The fourth instalment of the Wardstone Chronicles. In Pendle the witches are rising and the three most powerful witch clans are rumoured to be uniting in order to conjure an unimaginable evil. Together they will be capable of raising the dark made flesh - the Devil himself.

Tom and the Spook need to set off for Pendle to avert the unthinkable. But before they go, the Spook tells Tom to journey home and collect the trunks Mam left behind for him. But what dark family secrets are contained in the trunks? And will they place Tom's family in even greater danger or provide the help Tom and his master will need in Pendle?

  • Published: 1 February 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448123315
  • Imprint: RH AudioGo
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 8 hr 38 min
  • Narrator: Thomas Judd
  • RRP: $19.99

About the author

Joseph Delaney

Joseph Delaney used to be an English teacher, before becoming the best-selling author of the Spook's series, which has been published in 30 countries and sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide. The first book, The Spook's Apprentice, was adapted into a major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore.

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Praise for The Spook's Battle

. . . ideal for the reader who has outgrown Harry Potter. Be warned, these books are seriously scary . . . Beautifully produced and consistently surprising the weird and wonderful Wardstone Chronicles are an annual treat

Amanda Craig, The Times

Impressively written and deliciously spine-tingling

Becky Stradwick, Borders, Publishing News

The spine-chilling escapades of the Spook and his apprentice continue apace

Waterstone's Books Quarterly

This fourth adventure is possibly the best yet

The Bookseller

Spooky stuff!

TBK

This is a spine-tingling, seriously scary read with some genuinely terrifying moments

Norwich Evening News

...the essential strengths of the series remain: sympathetic characters, arcane motivations, unclear loyalties and a healthy helping of real darkness.

WriteAway

This is a spine-tingling, seriously scary read with some genuinely terrifying moments and is therefore suitable for older readers who don't insist on having the light on in the hall when they go to sleep.

Stacia Briggs, Ipswich Evening Star

an outstandingly imaginative, well written thriller

Amanda Craig, The Times

Delaney has a talent for creating the most dark and eerie settings and situations, in which the reader becomes totally immersed

Sarah Merrett, School Librarian

fast-paced and suspenseful: plenty of plot twists and character nuances engage the reader throughout (NB: US review, book listed as The Last Apprentice; Attack of the Fiend, pub. HarperCollins)

Dr Leslie Farmer, Kliatt