Series
The Wardstone Chronicles (UK) / The Last Apprentice (US)
Joseph Delaney · 17 novels · 1 novella · 2004–2023
Spook's, published as The Last Apprentice in the United States, is a children's dark fantasy series by the English author Joseph Delaney. It is published by imprints of Penguin Random House in the United Kingdom and HarperCollins in the United States. The series has been published in 30 countries, with sales exceeding 4.5 million copies. It began in 2004 with The Spook's Apprentice, which was later adapted as a play script, a feature film titled Seventh Son, and a French graphic novel.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Brother Wulf(4 works)
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
The Wardstone Chronicles (UK) / The Last Apprentice (US) at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2000s6
- 2010s8
- 2020s4
Shape
17 novels · 1 novella
1 author · completed series
reads like:dark fantasymonster huntingbritish islestimeless or unspecifieddarkmiddle grade
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book18 of 18 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Spook's Apprenticedarkest · calmest
- The Spook's Cursebrightest
- The Spook's Secretmost intense