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About the Author

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! Colin Moody's acting credits extend across the theatre stage, small screen and silver screen. Assuming leading roles in numerous productions for companies such as the Sydney Theatre Company and the Melbourne Theatre Company, his theatre work includes Cruel and Tender, The Crucible, Great Expectations and Angels in America. He has appeared in television dramas such as Something in the Air, Stingers and The Flying Doctors, and his film credits include Road to Alice, Escape from Absolom and The Wayfarers.

Reviews

"Brilliantly scary fun!"
*Amazon*

"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
"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