Product Description

The Nor' Loch is being filled in. If you ask the soldiers there, they'll tell you it's a stinking cesspool that the city can do without. But that doesn't explain why the workers won't go near the place without an armed guard, nor why they whisper stories about the loch giving up its dead, about the minister who walked into his church twelve years after he died. It doesn't explain why, as they work, they whisper about a man called the Doctor. And about the many hands of Alexander Monro. Featuring the Doctor and Martha as played by David Tennant and Freema Agyeman in the hit series from BBC Television.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #209759 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

About the Author
Dale Smith is an award winning playwright and author who had his first professional work published at the age of 16.

Customer Reviews

The Many Hands
Despite being a big fan of the TV series, this was the first Doctor Who book that I had tried. The format is a little smaller than most books, which made it really nice to hold and read.. especially in the bath! It also allows for the story to be fast paced, so that it feels like a TV episode.

This one was based on the 10th Doctor and Martha - The Doctor's character is well written, which makes it very easy to picture him whilst reading (always a pleasure!), but I did feel that Martha wasn't captured quite as well.

The actual storyline was actually like many of the TV episodes.. it could have been quite silly, and yet somehow, it works. I don't know which age groups this book is aimed at, but younger readers may find this one a little frightening.

All in all, if this one is anything to go by, these books are great for fans, offering yet more time with The Doctor. I've already spotted some more I'd like to pick up!

The Many Hands make light reading
Dale Smith's latest novel for the BBC Books range of original Doctor Who adventures is a fast-paced tale set in Eighteenth Century Edinburgh and featuring the Tenth Doctor and his companion Martha Jones.

The Gothic tone - mad scientist, disembodied organs, ghostly graveyard and grisly anatomical experiments - put me in mind of the 2006 TV story 'Tooth and Claw' as well as stirring memories of the show's celebrated mid-70s Gothic period and such classics as 'The Horror of Fang Rock' and 'The Talons of Weng=Chiang'.

The depiction of the Tenth Doctor immediately reflects David Tennant's uber-excitable action man, and the book's opening scene is as cooly memorable as anything from a latter-day James Bond movie.

Overall, Smith has delivered a story that one could definitely imagine as a televised adventure, and which has to be one of the series' finest original novels to date.

You need hands
NB; THIS IS AN ACTUAL REVIEW OF THIS BOOK AND NOT A RELATED PRODUCT

Another novel adventure for the tenth doctor who and his companion martha. as usual with this range it runs for 244 pages of quite large print and is suitable for all ages to read. and the main characters are spot on in their characterisation.

Does anything make this one stand out?

yes.

A very well realised setting, edinburgh of the 18th century, that will teach you an awful lot of history about the place.

Some good supporting characters who are very believable.

Interesting monsters who could be absurd but are actually quite a clever idea.

And some excellent and exciting set pieces. Although a few chases mean it takes about sixty pages to really get going.

A throughly enjoyable read and an above average entry in the range