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Doctor Who: Dark Horizons
Doctor Who: Dark Horizons
Nov 12, 2025 8:21 AM

Author:J.T. Colgan,Neve McIntosh

Doctor Who: Dark Horizons

On a windswept Northern shore, at the very tip of what will one day become Scotland, the islanders believe the worst they have to fear is a Viking attack. Then the burning comes. They cannot run from it. Water will not stop it. It consumes everything - yet the burned still speak. The Doctor is looking for a game on the famous Lewis chess set. Instead he encounters a people under attack from a power they cannot possibly understand. They have no weapons, no strategy and no protection against a fire sent to engulf them. Add in some marauding Vikings with very bad timing, a kidnapped princess with a secret of her own and a TARDIS that seems to have developed an inexplicable fear of water, and they all have a battle on their hands. The islanders must take on a ruthless alien force in a world without technology; without communications; without tea that isn't made out of bark. Still, at least they have the Doctor on their side - don't they? A thrilling adventure featuring the Doctor as played by Matt Smith, in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.

6 CDs. 7hrs 18 mins.

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—— Michael Ondjaate

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—— Philip Hensher , Mail on Sunday

So magically deft at being profound...possesses that daunting quality impossible to emulate: it makes greatness seem simple

—— Richard Ford

Maxwell does something all great novelists do: he conjures depths of pain and regret in words of radiant simplicity

—— Anthony Quinn , Observer

This calm, reflective and extraordinarily beautiful novel offers American fiction at its finest

—— Irish Times

Maxwell's voice is one of the wisest in American fiction; it is, as well, one of the kindest

—— John Updike

Maxwell is one of the past half-century's unmistakably great novelists

—— Village Voice

Maxwell offers us scrupulously executed, moving landscapes of America's twentieth century, and they do not fade

—— Times Literary Supplement
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