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Cover blurb: ‘You’re tinkering with time. That’s always a bad idea unless you know what you’re doing.’ The Doctor takes Romana for a holiday in Paris — a city which, like a fine wine, has a bouquet all of its own. Especially if you visit during one of the vintage years. But the TARDIS takes them to 1979, a table-wine year, a year whose vintage is soured by cracks — not in their wine glasses but in the very fabric of time itself. Soon the Time Lords are embroiled in an audacious alien scheme which encompasses home-made time machines, the theft of the Mona Lisa, the resurrection of the much-feared Jagaroth race, and the beginning (and quite possibly the end) of all life on Earth. Aided by British private detective Duggan, whose speciality is thumping people, the Doctor and Romana must thwart the machinations of the suave, mysterious Count Scarlioni — all twelve of him — if the human race has any chance of survival. But then, the Doctor’s holidays tend to turn out a bit like this. Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge in 1952, and was educated at Brentwood School, Essex and St John’s College, Cambridge, where he read English. As well as writing all the different and conflicting versions of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy he has been responsible for Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, and, with John Lloyd, The Meaning of Liff and The Deeper Meaning of Liff. In 1978-9, he worked as Script Editor on Doctor Who. He wrote three scripts for the programme — ‘The Pirate Planet’, ‘City of Death’ (under the name David Agnew), and ‘Shada’. Douglas Adams died in May 2001. James Goss is the author of two Doctor Who novels: The Blood Cell and Dead of Winter, as well as Summer Falls (on behalf of Amy Pond). He is also the co-author, with Steve Tribe, of The Doctor: His Lives and Times, The Dalek Handbook and Doctor Who: A History of the Universe in 100 Objects. While at the BBC James produced an adaptation of Shada, an unfinished Douglas Adams Doctor Who story, and Dirk is his award-winning stage adaptation of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. His Doctor Who audiobook Dead Air won Best Audiobook 2010 and his books Dead of Winter and First Born were both nominated for the 2012 British Fantasy Society Awards. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cover blurb: The Doctor takes Romana for a holiday in Paris — a city which, like a fine wine, has a bouquet all its own. But the TARDIS takes them to 1979, a year whose vintage is soured by cracks in the very fabric of time itself. Soon the Time Lords are embroiled in an audacious alien scheme involving home-made time machines, the Mona Lisa, the resurrection of the much-feared Jagaroth race, and the beginning (and quite possibly the end) of all life on Earth. But then, the Doctor’s holidays tend to turn out a bit like this. ‘An elegant classy novel’ Doctor Who Magazine ‘It’s a beautiful collaboration, a work of love, and a celebration of the very best of Doctor Who that’s luminous with joy’ CultBox | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Note: Abridged version of the novel, to fit in with the Target-style novelisations of new series episodes which were released at the same time. Cover blurb: Visiting Paris in 1979, the Doctor and Romana’s hopes for a holiday are soon shattered by armed thugs, a suave and dangerous Count, a plot to steal the Mona Lisa and a world-threatening experiment with time. Teaming up with a British detective, the Time Lords discover that a ruthless alien plot hatched in Earth’s pre-history has reached its final stage. If Scaroth, last of the Jagaroth, cannot be stopped then the human race is history, along with all life on Earth... This novel is based on a Doctor Who story which was originally broadcast from 29 September — 20 October 1979. Feturing the Fourth Doctor as played by Tom Baker with his companion Romana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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