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Doctor Who: I Am a Dalek
Doctor Who: I Am a Dalek
Nov 29, 2025 8:27 AM

Author:Gareth Roberts

Doctor Who: I Am a Dalek

Equipped with space suits, golf clubs and a flag, the Doctor and Rose are planning to live it up, Apollo mission-style, on the Moon. But the TARDIS has other plans, landing them instead in a village on the south coast of England; a picture-postcard sort of place where nothing much happens. Until now...

An archaeological dig has turned up a Roman mosaic, circa AD 70, depicting mythical scenes, grapes and a Dalek. A few days later a young woman, rushing for work, is knocked over and killed by a bus, then comes back to life.

It's not long before all hell breaks loose, and the Doctor and Rose must use all their courage and cunning against an alien enemy and a not-quite-alien accomplice who are intent on destroying humanity.

Featuring the Doctor and Rose as played by David Tennant and Billie Piper in the hit Doctor Who series from BBC Television.

Reviews

The Driver's Seat is a scalpel, cutting away the excess of the traditional novel and leaving only the core. It is a stiletto, piercing straight to the heart - or thereabouts

—— John Self

Riveting action scenes bristle with a queasy energy ... unputdownable and disgustingly realistic

—— Sunday Telegraph

Elton writes a good crime story with lots of twists and excitement

—— Henry Sutton , Daily Mirror

Unusually for a comic novel, it grips like a thriller and has some page-turningly tense moments... a significant book, as well as an eccentric one

—— Daily Telegraph

A reading experience that evokes contemporary China with absurdist exactitude

—— Financial Times

Some of the best passages are, like this, sensuous and plainly descriptive. There is a fantastic mini-essay on the aphrodisiac qualities of the sea cucumber

—— Toby Litt , Guardian

Well-crafted, often hilarious and surreal

—— Big Issue

An amusing, charming read with a satirical edge

—— Metro
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