Full of the energies of discord - sibling rivalry, greed, ambition, illicit sexual passion, and vanity

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire

Jane Austen at her most genteelly ascerbic

Austen looks at her world with a cool, undressing gaze...she is a formidable opponent of hypocrisy and sentimentality

A richly evocative tale

Subtle but arresting...an exhiliarating saga

'Full of scary moments..the writing is amazingly descriptive...Delaney has once again penned a fabulous book.'

'A new, spine-chilling adventure...exciting and creepy.'

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'Wonderful and terrifying.'

'These are expertly written books.'

Short review

A great read for all fantasy fans

A sequel that will be greeted eagerly by fans of The Spook's Apprentice.

Watch out for the new installment of Joe Delaney's Spook's series.

The second volume in an excellent series... the author eschews the usual predictable weirdo fantasy settings and places the characters in a kind of olden-days Lancashire.

The story has an intense, creepy feel from the very start, and is full of darkly atmospheric scenes, which are it's great strength

Delaney's tale of the Spook and his apprentice deftly combine elements of horror with the idea of the wandering, despised hero, as popularised in the western and it's imitators. The Wardstone Chronicles remain one of the strongest ongoing series of the moment.

Thrilling tale.

The greatest comic writer ever

P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century

Sublime comic genius

He exhausts superlatives

The Everyman edition promises to be a splendid celebration of the divine Plum

The handsome bindings are only the cherry on top of what is already a cake without compare

You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour