The Spook's Sacrifice
core novel 2009 The Wardstone Chronicles
Record
| First published | 2009 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.20 (16,988 ratings, collected 2026-10-31) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780370329321 |
| Internal chronology | 6 |
Synopsis
Tom Ward's mother, known as Mam, has long kept secrets about her past. When an ancient evil stirs far from the County, she asks Tom for help, and Tom, John Gregory and Alice Deane travel together to Greece. The journey takes them far from the Lancashire hills and the familiar tools of the spook's trade, and into a country with its own gods and its own old magic. They must find and face an Old God whose power threatens the world beyond any single country's borders. Along the way Tom begins to learn the truth about his mother, where she came from and what she has carried for most of her life.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Wardstone Chronicles
- Series: The Wardstone Chronicles core; position 6 of 13 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Joseph Delaney
Notes
- From the series record (The Wardstone Chronicles): Thirteen novels following Tom Ward, apprentice to the County's spook, from 2004 to 2013.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Wardstone Chronicles: position 6 of 13: previous The Spook's Mistake (2008) · next The Spook's Nightmare (2010)
- Internal chronology, within The Wardstone Chronicles: position 13 of 20: previous The Spook's Mistake (2008) · next The Spook's Nightmare (2010)
Sources
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