Author:Terrance Dicks,Caroline John
In this, the first adventure of his third incarnation, Doctor Who, Liz Shaw and the Brigadier grapple with the nightmarish invasion of the Autons. Living, giant-sized, plastic-modelled ‘humans’ with no hair and sightless eyes, they are waxwork replicas and tailors’ dummies whose murderous behaviour is directed by the Nestene Consciousness – a malignant, squid-like monster of cosmic proportions and indescribably hideous appearance. Caroline John, who played Liz Shaw in the original Doctor Who TV serial ‘Spearhead from Space’, reads Terrance Dicks’ complete and unabridged novelisation, first published by Target Books in 1974. ‘BBC Audiobooks has chosen well with its books and has taken the right approach with its readers... they benefit from new music and sound effects’ - Doctor Who Magazine.
Fascinating... Hamilton's book deserves to be read, particularly by those who think they've read it all before. In future, all searches for the blues must start here
—— Robert Sandall , Sunday TimesProvocatively entertaining...Assiduously researched and beautifully written, what this book reminds us is that the blues has always meant something quite different to white audiences than to black ones
—— Mick Brown , Daily TelegraphIconoclastic... Marybeth Hamilton proves herself a fine and sensitive detective... It shakes the foundation myth of so much music that followed, as well as explaining a great deal about what it is to be a record collector, itself a dying calling in the age of the iPod
—— Caspar Llewellyn-Smith , ObserverAn important and often beautifully written piece of historical revisionism
—— Observer Music MonthlyHamilton has a keen, unforgiving eye...an eloquent book about people making the forgotten important
—— Roz Kaveney , Time OutHamilton's outstanding book profiles the folklorists and collectors who shaped the concept of Delta blues... A plausible and provocative book. And it has transformed my view of the blues
—— Ludovic Hunter-Tilney , Financial TimesHamilton tells such a good story that she turns a work of scholarship into a page-turner
—— Times Literary SupplementHamilton has done a good job of researching a subject that blues fans will find fascinating
—— ProspectEvocative and engaging
—— Tim Willis , Sunday Telegraph