Book description
Doctor Who is the world's longest-running science fiction
television series, and has had children hiding behind sofa's since it
was first broadcast in 1963. Eleven actors have played the famous Time
Lord, starting with William Hartnell, and it has been a career
landmark for all of them. Indeed, no other role in television history
is as iconic, demanding, or as anticipated by its legions of fans as
that of the famous time traveller with two hearts. Find out: * Who was
a bouncer for The Rolling Stones before taking control of the Tardis.
* Who was nearly blown up in the Second World War aboard HMS Hood. *
Who had a fondness for woolly hats and had a grandson who would become
Harry Potter's nemesis. * Who played a transvestite barmaid before
becoming a Doctor Who heart-throb. Go back in time and read the human
story behind a TV legend.
Craig Cabell has been a freelance journalist and writer for 20 years.
He spent five years as an in-house reporter at the House Journal of the
Ministry of Defence, Focus and has written 15 books as a biographer and
historian. He is an expert of rare and collectable fiction and wrote
several regular wine columns for different magazines as well as
travelling the world, from Kuwait to Venezuela, for government services.
Some of his previous books, such as Operation Big Ben, the anti-V2
Spitfire Mission 1944-45 (with Graham Thomas) and Ian Fleming's Secret
War, have attracted much praise. His previous books with John Blake,
James Herbert - Devil In the Dark, Snipers (with Richard Brown), and Ian
Rankin and Inspector Rebus have showcased his diversity and specialist
skills in literature and small arms. He lives in London with his wife
and three children.
