Hamster Book Club - The Doctor Who Book Club Podcast

What do Fear Itself and The Dying Days have in common? DWM reviewer Matt Michael joins me to discuss this 11th hour EDA classic...

What could possibly reduce Michael Mills - brain the size of a planet - to an excited child? A fabulous Titan comic strip all about the nature of stories! A delight to record.

A book we were all looking forward to so much...so why has it left us so (God)damn angry? We got to talk religion, Saint Doctor, and explore why a religion around Doctor Who is a bad idea.

Comedian, author, and all round genius, Steffan Alun joins me to dissect one of the most magnificent of New Series Adventures...

The only book so good it has had a third airing! How much fun can two people have discussing a book? Presto or Poodle!

A delightful fusion of laughs, mad ideas, action, evil bastards, Doctor Who monsters in disguise, character development and great payoffs...that nobody ever talks about!

A thoughtful, gripping, unforgettable novel from first time Doctor Who writer Lance Parkin. We're in awe.

Mark & I say goodbye to Anji, say hello to Trix, talk terrible murder, visit the start of the universe, gasp at the return of the Time Lords and delight in this character driven urban thriller...

The Doctor, Fitz and Anji in a mad Christmas adventure with the Cyber-Rats!

The intrepid foursome face a tale of two Doctors, Harry lost in the past, werewolves and nature coming to life...

Anji Kapoor has an impossible choice to make...betray the Doctor or bring her boyfriend back to life...

Hamster pays tribute to and celebrates the incredible career of Justin Richards, and discuss his books and his time as editor.

The book I was most nervous for Mark to read; subversive, wildly creative, brutal and high concept...but how did he find it?

Dylan and I tackle a collection of wonderfully eclectic and character driven 13th Doctor comics from the pages of DWM...

An iconic book (and absolutely deserving of the term), the NAs decide to take a toxic Doctor and give him some romantic therapy with amazing results...

Both the most stupid and the most frighteningly predictive book in the EDAs - somehow feel utterly disingenuous at times, and utterly riveting in others. Joe loves the chunky prose and action, Mark loves the exploration of Edinburgh. We come to praise this derided book, and discuss its flaws.

Michael is the law, and I am his scummy criminal bitch! Doctor Who meets Judge Dredd...kind of. This is an ugly, nasty, unfinished book but we still found quite a lot to recommend it.

If you are looking to explore the eighth Doctor books further, here is a series of readings - funny, tragic, exciting, silly, touching - which tell the story of Anji Kapoor, the eighth Doctor's companion.

Easily the angriest episode of The Hamster Book Club, we discuss a hugely problematic book and discuss how a range wasn't cancelled on the basis of its offensiveness from the off...

Who on Earth was Trix Macmillan? A short story that dives into the possible backstories of the Doctor's companion cut short because of the return of the New Series...