Joseph Delaney

Emerging from Preston, Lancashire, Delaney combined a mature-age degree in English, history and sociology at Lancaster University with teacher training at St Martin’s College before launching a career in education, where he eventually headed a Media and Film Studies department. Shifting to children's literature, he released The Spook’s Apprentice in 2004, a dark-fantasy novel rooted in Lancashire… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources