‘You’re taking us to see the Vikings?’ asked Jo incredulously.For the first time this year, I am actually up to date with book-blogging. And you can't be much more up to date than this; The Spear of Destiny was only published today, so I could hardly have written it up any sooner. The Doctor and Jo, somewhere in Season 10, are asked to investigate mysterious happenings around a spear held in a private museum, and go back to Sweden in the year 141 to find out what's going on and to discover exactly which bearded villain is behind it all. It's a bit reminiscent of The Time Monster, but a bit lighter (apart from the iconography of the Spear of Destiny, which is actually rather heavy stuff). Sedgwick doesn't quite capture the TV Third Doctor, but then neither does Terrance Dicks if we're honest, and if this wee book is a gateway to a new generation discovering that era of the show, it's fine with me.
‘I know! Wonderful, isn’t it?’ said the Doctor with a grin.
March Books 12) The Spear of Destiny, by Marcus Sedgwick
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Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships, by Camilla Pang
Second paragraph of third chapter: Who hasn't argued with their mother at some point about tidying their room, and had differing interpretations…
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Ormeshadow, by Priya Sharma
Second paragraph of third chapter: Gideon stood beside his father. The sun made a fuss of setting, bleeding red and orange into the sea. Gideon could…
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Modern China: A Very Short Introduction, by Rana Mitter
Second paragraph of third chapter: Decades after the deaths of Mao and Chiang, it is possible not only to look at those two major figures with some…
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