Your homes been attacked. Your dads in an asylum. Youre running for your life. And theres nowhere to hide. Youve stumbled on the citys greatest secret: Darkside. Incredibly dangerous and unimaginably exciting. Darkside is ruled by Jack the Rippers children a place where nightmares walk the streets. You think youre in trouble now, but your problems have just begun Winner of the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize. Fantasy adventure with a dash of gothic horror, Perfect for Darren Shan and Buffy fans. Rich new fantasy world, unforgettable characters.

 

 

This book features in the following series: Playaway Children, The Dark Side .

There are 256 pages in this book. This book was published in 2012 by Scholastic .

Tom Becker grew up in a market town in the northwest of England dreaming of becoming a writer. He won the 2007 Waterstones Children's Book Prize with his first novel, Darkside, and continued to blur the lines between history and fantasy in books such as The Traitors and While The Others Sleep. To date his books have been translated into over ten languages. He has also published a play, Until The Last Light Fades, and an adult novel, The Cold Tap, under his real name, Tom Beckerlegge. Tom lives in London with his wife, baby son, and a horde of shadowy creatures that he keeps confined within the pages of his notebook.