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Tom Becker

Since Tom Becker learned to hold a pen, he wanted to become a writer. In fact, when he was a 5-year-old, he wrote in a notebook that it was his dream to be an author. At age 25, Tom realised that dream with the publication of his first novel, Darkside. Tom's early enthusiasm for books and reading was encouraged by his parents who were voracious readers. Aside from reading, Tom's big love in life is music and other passions include supporting Everton Football Club and consisting on a diet of fry-ups and fish fingers!

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Title:: Darkside
Series:: The Darkside series #1
Written by:: Tom Becker
Read by:: Colin Moody
Format:: Unabridged CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 6
Duration:: 6 hours 12 minutes
Published:: April 01 2008
Available Date:: April 01 2008
Age Category:: Young Adult (13+)
ISBN:: 9781742013589
Genres:: Fiction; Contemporary Fantasy; Ghost Stories; Horror; Young Adult Fiction
Publisher:: Bolinda audio

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Longlisted Manchester Book Award 2008
Winner Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2007

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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!"
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