Doctor Who: The Many Hands (Doctor Who (BBC Hardcover)) [Hardcover]

Dale Smith (Author)

Book Description

Series: Doctor Who (BBC Hardcover) | Publication Date: July 1, 2008

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

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Random House UK (July 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1846074223
• ISBN-13: 978-1846074226
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #604,067 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 1759 Edinburgh, Walking Corpses, the Doctor and Martha = Fast Read, June 3, 2008

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Nancy A. Fox (West Covina, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Doctor Who: The Many Hands (Doctor Who (BBC Hardcover)) (Hardcover)

The Doctor and Martha arrive in 18th century Edinburgh, and of course they can't just stroll along the Royal Mile and enjoy some tea and shortbread. Within minutes of arriving, the two of them are trying to stop a runaway carriage carrying a famous American. After stopping the carriage and saving countless lives in the process, they are arrested by the castle guards for disrupting the peace and because Martha is wearing pantaloons (it is 1759 after all). Of course, the Doctor and Martha escape and get separated in the process. Martha ends up with two 18th century anatomists who have a big secret, and the Doctor ends up in a church across the loch surrounded by soldiers and the walking dead.

Of course the Doctor saves the day, and Edinburgh. The action is fast and furious, and the book is quite a page-turner. The author did a nice job writing the characters of Martha and the Doctor, I could hear Freema Agyeman and David Tennant saying the lines in my head as I was reading.

It was an interesting story that adds to the Whoniverse, and gives the Martha Jones character some interesting things to do besides mooning over the Doctor. If you are a fan of the show, and want a fun and quick read I recommend this book. However, if you are not familiar with the Doctor Who series I recommend that you give this story a pass.

5.0 out of 5 stars A fun read, November 6, 2011

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Heather Blackwood (Southern California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Doctor Who: The Many Hands (Doctor Who (BBC Hardcover)) (Hardcover)

This is one of the better Doctor Who books. Lots of running and fun, plus disembodied hands. Creepy and imaginative.

2.0 out of 5 stars The least interesting so far..., April 1, 2011

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Carolina Carvalho - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Doctor Who: The Many Hands (Doctor Who (BBC Hardcover)) (Hardcover)

I agree it was creepy and that was very well; but it was a bit dull and The Doctor didn't seem like himself... through most of the book he is quiet and really not fun at all... just boring.