Author:Dan Abnett,Michael Maloney
For centuries the Maintainers have worked. With no help from other worlds, they subsist on the food they can grow and that’s little enough. But their purpose, their whole life, is to maintain the machines that will one day make their world as habitable as old Earth. Life used to be hard. Now as crops fail, livestock sicken, and the temperature drops, it’s becoming impossible. This year’s Winter Season Feast won’t be the usual celebration. It’s no time for optimism or hope – or to welcome unexpected guests. The Doctor, Amy and Rory find a society breaking apart – and then the Doctor’s old enemies the Ice Warriors make their move. With the cold-hearted threat of invasion, the real battle for survival begins. Or does it? The Doctor suspects that behind everything lies a deadlier, even more chilling danger... A thrilling adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.
Like a hunting Martian ploughing remorselessly, effortlessly through freshly fallen snow of an ice world, the novel skilfully establishes its target and never fails to relinquish it; intrigue, scares, uncompromising adventure and all important character development.
—— Matthew Walter , http://www.eyeofhorus.org.ukThe definitive word on Peel as champion of new music
—— Q Magazine - ****There is no better book about Peel available...combines rigour and precision with style and accessibility...a compelling tale about music on the airwaves
—— Glasgow HeraldEncyclopaedic
—— Sunday Express - ****Top Ten Rock Books: - Number One: The Peel Sessions (24/10/07)
—— The IndependentThe Peel Sessions is a fine celebration of the nation's favourite DJ... a stylish and affectionate tribute
—— Sunday TelegraphDefinitive.
—— Under the RadarThe myth-making that surrounds the memory of Bob Marley has largely obscured the contribution of his fellow Wailers, Neville "Bunny" Livingston (later Bunny Wailer) and Peter Tosh. I and I restores these two to their rightful position
—— New StatesmanGrant...is skilled at peeling away layers of history
—— ObserverThere are illuminating details and fresh revelations
—— IndependentThis intelligent study...offers something more than the usual story of rags-to-riches and ganja-fuelled Rasta-speak. This book is full of...insights and revelations
—— James Ferguson , Times Literary SupplementThe three pillars - Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer - occupy equal roles in this illuminating study from the cross-roads of music and society
—— Boyd Tonkin , Independent, Books of the YearUtterly riveting
—— Rob Fitzpatrick , Sunday TimesVivid biography...This brilliant book is not just about Jamaica, but also about ourselves, no longer the country of The King's Speech but a post-imperial nation, many of whose citizens have a buried history of slavery
—— Maggie Gee , GuardianMasterful biography...It is utterly riveting, taking in, as it does, true crime, West African folk magic and deeply corrupt politics
—— Rob Fitzpatrick , Sunday Times