- Title:
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Darkside
- Series:
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The Darkside series #1
- Written by:
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Tom Becker
- Read by:
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Colin Moody
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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6
- Duration:
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6 hours 12 minutes
- Published:
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April 01 2008
- Available Date:
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April 01 2008
- Age Category:
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Young Adult (13+)
- ISBN:
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9781742013589
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fantasy; Ghost Stories; Horror; Young Adult Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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Longlisted Manchester Book Award 2008
Winner Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2007
Welcome. We've been expecting you...
Your home's been attacked. Your dad's in an asylum. You're running for your life. And there's nowhere to hide. You've stumbled on the city's greatest secret: Darkside. Incredibly dangerous and unimaginably exciting, Darkside is ruled by Jack the Ripper's children - a place where nightmares walk the streets. You think you're in trouble now, but your problems have just begun...
"Fourteen-year-old Jonathan Sterling's secretive father lies in a hospital, mad and sick. This sets Jonathan, a truant student, on a mission to discover his father's hidden past. References to 'the darkness' lead him to a library, where he meets Mary Anne, who has white skin, purple hair, and sedating perfume. She promises to lead him to Darkside, a hidden world beneath London. Colin Moody is chillingly convincing in this portrayal, and his narration becomes mysterious and forbidding as we follow Jonathan underground. Moody highlights Jonathan's desperation to understand, and then escape, the treacherous nineteenth-century world he finds there, which is peopled with vampires and ghouls. Particularly strong is Moody's growling depiction of a P.I. 'wereman' who nearly eats Jonathan before becoming his friend."
AudioFile Magazine
"Brilliantly scary fun!"
Amazon