With her parents' bodies still warm in the ground, Alice Deane is whisked away by her aunt to be taught how to be a witch. Alice isn't happy about this - and who would be, with her aunt's brain guzzling familiar, Spig, out to get her? It soon becomes clea
‘This is the entrance to the Witch Well and behind that door you’d face your worst nightmare. Don’t ever go through there.'Night falls, the portcullis rises in the moonlight, and young Billy starts his first night as a prison guard. But this is no o
A chilling new trilogy from the author of the internationally bestselling The Last Apprentice series! Tom Ward is an apprentice no longer—now he is a fully fledged spook battling boggarts, witches, and other creatures of the dark. This three-book arc wi
The first book in the exhilarating new fantasy sequence from Joseph Delaney, the multi-million-selling author of The Spook's Apprentice.Welcome to Arena 13. Here warriors fight. Death is never far away . . .Leif has one ambition: to become the best fighte
The second instalment of Joseph Delaney’s exhilarating new ARENA 13 series.Sixteen-year-old Leif continues on his quest to find out the truth about his legendary father. Will his father’s people hold the key to Leif’s future? And will what he learns
How scared can you get in only 30 seconds?Dare to find out!Dive into the shortest, scariest, spine-tinglers, hair-raisers, and eye-poppers ever created.These instant thrills come from astounding talents, including Lemony Snicket, James Patterson, Neil Gai
Beware a girl in pointy shoesA girl wearing pointy shoes might be a witch. And the first thing a spook's apprentice learns is never, ever to trust a witch.In this bone-chilling collection of tales, you will learn exactly why that is, as you encounter:a fa
A fantastic collection of ghost stories from leading children's authorsDerek Landy (Scepter of the Ancients), Philip Reeve (Mortal Engines), Joseph Delaney (Revenge of the Witch), Susan Cooper (The Dark Is Rising), Eleanor Updale (Montmorency), Jamila Gav
