Celebrated author Joseph Delaney visits BRGS

Award-winning author, Joseph Delaney, visited BRGS on 13th February to speak to our Year 7 students.  We were enthralled by tales concerning the writing process and Joseph's inspirations.  He also read some key extracts from his books.  Students had the opportunity to ask questions and many eager students purchased signed copies of their favourite books.

Many of Mr Delaney’s books have been shortlisted for the Lancashire children's Book for the Year Award. This award is particularly relevant to our school as our Year 9 students have played a key role in the selection process on many occasions, presenting prizes and reading reviews at Lancashire County Hall.

Mr Delaney is perhaps best known for the thriller The Spook’s Apprentice which spent 7 weeks in the Best-seller charts and sold over 35,000 copies in the first few months. Most of the places in the Spook's books are based on real places in Lancashire, with the inspiration behind the stories often coming from local legends and our students loved hearing about these. These books have also inspired the forthcoming Hollywood film, The Seventh Son, due to be released in February 2015, staring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore.

We were very excited about this opportunity to hear from such an established and talented writer and hope his achievements will inspire our students in their own literary endeavours at BRGS.

Celebrated author Joseph Delaney visits BRGS