Book Reviews





Doctor Who and the Daleks – David Whitaker, Doctor Who and the Zarbi – Bill Strutton & Doctor Who and the Crusaders – David Whitaker (BBC Books)

I knew they were coming, I knew what they were, I knew even exactly what they looked like. Yet still, as the postman delivered them through my door, I couldn’t wait to hold them in…



Doctor Who: The Whoniverse: The Untold History of Space and Time – George Mann & Justin Richards (BBC Books)

With Christmas just around the corner you can\’t go far wrong if you buy The Whoniverse for either yourself or the Whovian in your life. It\’s a wonderfully detailed book filled with beautiful artwork that chronicles…



Indestructible: Growing up Queer, Cuban and Punk in Miami – Cristy C. Road (Microcosm)

A frank and honest account of Road’s journey towards understanding her sexuality in the context of her Cuban roots, and the Miami punk scene in which she immersed herself. Mixing text with some neat artwork…



Star Trek: The Human Frontier (Second Edition) – Michele Barrett & Duncan Barrett (Routledge)

Michele and Duncan Barrett’s Star Trek The Human Frontier was first published a decade and a half ago, one of the wave of academic tie-ins to the series that were flooding the world back then – and…


Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary: A Graphic Collection of Short Stories by M.R. James Adapted by Leah Moore and John Reppion (Self Made Hero)

My collection of horror books has over the many years come and gone, expanded and contracted, yet somehow I have never been without at least one edition of M. R. James. I suspect that subconsciously…