The Day of the Boggart - Times Online
Amanda Craig profiles Joseph Delaney, whose latest children's title is The Spook's Battle:
Joseph Delaney’s best-selling Wardstone Chronicles, about the Spook and his apprentice, has been bought by Warner Bros, the Hollywood studio that brought us the Harry Potter films. Like Rowling, Delaney centres his thrillers on a sinister magical power struggle and, like Rowling’s, their initial success came about through word-of-mouth enthusiasm in the playground. Delaney is a master story-teller, as rooted in his native Lancashire as Alan Garner is in Cheshire. He has sold more than 500,000 copies in 20 countries...
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