![]() ![]() He would write in the early mornings before school until his first children’s book, The Spook’s Apprentice about Tom Ward the seventh son of a seventh son who trained to fight ghosts and creatures from the Dark, was published by Random House Children’s Books in 2004. Joe worked as an apprentice engineer and fitter before getting his A-Levels at night school and then becoming an English teacher. He leaves behind his second wife (his first wife Marie died in 2007), two sons and a daughter, and his grandchildren. ![]() With much sadness, the family of master storyteller, Joseph Delaney, confirm that he passed away aged 77 on 16 th August after an illness, which, in his indomitable style, he kept to himself and his family so he could carry on with writing as much as he possibly could. ![]()
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