Written by Steve Cole, it’s a pretty solid Doctor Who story and lays some intriguing groundwork for the Time Lord Victorious event, but as a stand-alone story, it’s a bit lacking.

With the event fully underway, what better place to begin my coverage than with the first novel – The Knight, The Fool, and The Dead. Promising to chronicle how the Tenth Doctor tries to become the master of death, it looks like a fun and creative way to tell a truly expansive Doctor Who story. He has written scripts for Big Finish’s Doctor Who, Robin Hood and Highlander ranges, and most recently full cast audio dramas for Blake’s 7.Time Lord Victorious, the first Doctor Who multimedia crossover event, has begun. He was regular contributor to BBC Magazines' hugely popular Doctor Who Adventures between 20, scripting the further exploits of the Doctor in comic strip form. His first Torchwood novel, Something in the Water, was published in March 2008 and was a national bestseller. His acclaimed Fear of the Dark was reprinted in 2013 as part of Doctor Who’s 50th Anniversary celebrations. His Doctor Who novels include the The Deadstone Memorial, which was voted best novel of 2004 by the readers of Doctor Who Magazine, as well as Eater of Wasps, Prisoner of the Daleks and Deep Time. Since then he has written many novels, short stories, comic strips and audio dramas for both BBC Books and Big Finish Productions, plus various adaptations for schools in Pearson’s Bugclub range. Trevor Baxendale has been a writer since 1998, when his first Doctor Who novel The Janus Conjunction was published by BBC Books. In this collection of new stories, Star Tales takes you on a rip-roaring ride through history, from 500BC to the swinging 60s, going deeper into the Doctor's notorious name-dropping and revealing the truth behind these anecdotes. While she and her companions battled aliens and travelled across the universe, the Doctor hinted at a host of previous, untold adventures with the great and the good: we discovered she got her sunglasses from Pythagoras (or was it Audrey Hepburn?) lent a mobile phone to Elvis had an encounter with Amelia Earhart where she discovered that a pencil-thick spider web can stop a plane had a 'wet weekend' with Harry Houdini, learning how to escape from chains underwater and more. The Doctor is many things – curious, funny, brave, protective of her friends.and a shameless namedropper.

‘Even though they’re gone from the world, they’re never gone from me.’ To celebrate the return of Doctor Who in early 2020, a unique collection of name-dropping historical adventures inspired by Jodie Whitaker’s first series as The Doctor.

Doctor Who by Steve Cole