Author:J.T. Colgan,Neve McIntosh

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.
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One of the great books of our age. It is the subtlest of miniatures that contains our deepest sorrows and truths and love - all caught in a clear, simple style in perfect brushstrokes
—— Michael OndjaateA truly extraordinary novel... Maxwell has tapped a vein of strange, pure emotion
—— Philip Hensher , Mail on SundaySo magically deft at being profound...possesses that daunting quality impossible to emulate: it makes greatness seem simple
—— Richard FordMaxwell does something all great novelists do: he conjures depths of pain and regret in words of radiant simplicity
—— Anthony Quinn , ObserverThis calm, reflective and extraordinarily beautiful novel offers American fiction at its finest
—— Irish TimesMaxwell's voice is one of the wisest in American fiction; it is, as well, one of the kindest
—— John UpdikeMaxwell is one of the past half-century's unmistakably great novelists
—— Village VoiceMaxwell offers us scrupulously executed, moving landscapes of America's twentieth century, and they do not fade
—— Times Literary Supplement