Darkside: Book 1 - Softcover

Becker, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0545037409 ISBN 13: 9780545037402

Publisher: Orchard Books, 2009

Synopsis

Follow Jonathan Starling on his first bone-chilling adventure on the secret side of London, Darkside, where evil haunts every corner and fear is a constant friend.

Jonathan Starling's home has been attacked, his dad is in an asylum, he's running for his life, and there's nowhere to hide. Jonathan has stumbled upon London's greatest secret: Darkside. Incredibly dangerous and unimaginably exciting, Darkside is the creepiest place Jonathan has ever seen. It's a world of nightmares and secrets, where vampires and werewolves stalk the streets, where fear and evil rule, and Jonathan has to find a way out. . . .

Join Jonathan on the Darkside for a nail-biting, nonstop adventure!

About this title

About the Author:

Since TOM BECKER learned to hold a pen, he wanted to become a writer. Tom studied history at Oxford
University and was inspired by the otherworldly atmosphere of this academic institution. He is also the author
of the next two books in the Darkside series, Lifeblood and Nighttrap. His first book, Darkside, was awarded
the 2007 Waterstone's Children's Book Prize, which celebrates new talent. He lives in the United Kingdom.

From AudioFile:

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. S.W. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Orchard Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0545037409
• ISBN 13: 9780545037402
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 304