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Doctor Who: Mindwarp
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
Nov 17, 2025 6:46 PM

Author:Philip Martin,Colin Baker

Doctor Who: Mindwarp

Accused of 'crimes against the inviolate laws of evolution', the Doctor is on trial for his life in this exciting novelisation continuing the 'Trial of a Time Lord' story arc. The sinister prosecutor, the Valeyard, presents the High Council of Time Lords with the second piece of evidence against the Doctor: a dramatic adventure on the planet Thoros-Beta which led to the renegade Time Lord's summons to the Court of Enquiry. But as the Doctor watches the scenes on the Matrix he is puzzled by what he sees - his behaviour is not as he remembers. Only one thing is certain: on the evidence of the Matrix the Doctor is surely guilty as charged... Colin Baker, who starred as the Sixth Doctor in Doctor Who, reads Philip Martin's complete and unabridged novelisation, first published by Target Books in 1989.

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Assured and tactful… Sleeping Keys is a book distinguished by rueful but unembittered wisdom.

—— Sean O'Brien , Guardian

Full of poems that are unashamedly domestic.

—— Suzi Feay , Independent on Sunday

The poems in this collection are short, terse, painful reflections on ends and beginnings… The later poems are ones of resilience, rebirth and hope.

—— Catholic Herald

Apparently simple, down to earth poems with deep, unexpected, surprising images... Every line, each word are loaded with meaning.

—— Lancashire Life

Poems scarred with the painful aftermath of a marital break-up and the wounded delight of new love. Anyone who has been through a divorce will recognise the language of these elegies. Sprackland’s tone sometimes reminds me of Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy.

—— Bel Mooney , Daily Mail

If you think poetry may not be for you, or perhaps you feel a bit out of step with it and can't think how or where to begin again then Sleeping Keys might be the way back in.

—— DoveGreyReader

An extraordinary near-future adventure

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—— Maureen Kincaid Speller , Interzone

A fascinating genre-bending novel merging fantasy with an important environmental message

—— Big Issue

A novel anchored in the gritty mess of what it means to remember and to exist as an individual

—— Tash Aw , Guardian

A brilliantly observed tale of class and hedonism

—— The Times, *Summer Reads of 2023*

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—— Stella, Sunday Telegraph

A wonderful novel, written with warmth and depth of emotion

—— Kate Mosse , The Times

This is an exhilarating, aerobatic, addictive novel

—— Claire Lowdon , Sunday Times

Meg Wolitzer’s best novel yet

—— William Leith , Evening Standard

The dreamy, criss-crossing narrative proves Wolitzer one of America’s most ingenious and important writers

—— Sunday Telegraph

An engrossing look at life’s twists and turns

—— Woman's Weekly

The wit, intelligence and deep feeling of Wolitzer’s writing are extraordinary and The Interestings brings her achievement, already so steadfast and remarkable, to an even higher level.

—— JEFFREY EUGENIDES

This is a wonderful book. Intelligent and subtle, it is exquisitely written with enormous warmth and depth of emotion… Wolitzer is an affectionate and clear-sighted observer of human nature

—— Kate Mosse , The Times

Meg Wolitzer proves brilliant at writing normal, unremarkable lives, investing them with just as much detailed attention and humane humour as the lives of the beautiful, the rich and the famous… [She] also pulls off an impressive balancing act, sometimes inhabiting the moment-to-moment present of her characters, and at others times writing with a droll hindsight

—— Holly Williams , Independent on Sunday

There are certain authors whose new book you look forward to as though you were about to catch up on news from an old friend. And there are authors whose new book you fall on greedily because you know it will be tartly delicious and satisfy a hunger you didn’t know you had till you read them for the first time. For me, Meg Wolitzer has long been in both of those categories… The Interestings is full of Wolitzer’s trademark pleasures. I love her fearlessness in tackling everything … She has a sly wit and verbal brio which can even make clinical depression entertaining

—— Allison Pearson , Daily Telegraph
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