Doctor Who: The Eaters of Light (Target Collection)

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A critically lauded 12th Doctor adventure adapted by original screenwriter and award-winning playwright, Rona Munro. "To protect a muddy little hillside, you doomed your whole world!" The Doctor takes Bill and Nardole back to 2nd century Scotland to learn the fate of the 'lost' Ninth Legion of the Imperial Roman Army. 5,000 soldiers vanished without explanation - how The search for the truth leads the Doctor and his friends into a deadly mystery. Who is the Guardian of the Gate What nightmare creature roams the wildlands, darkening the sky and destroying all in its path A threat from another dimension has been unleashed on the Earth, and only a terrible sacrifice can put things right...

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This is so much more than merchandise...these novels are connecting us together even now. All the way across time and space -- Russell T Davies
Target books offered much more than just a window into Doctor Who: they were a formative part of my reading experience -- Alastair Reynolds
Target writers performed quite a invaluable service in 'saving' these stories...so don't think of this book as just another novel. It's a slice of Who history -- Stephen Baxter
It became a ritual, saving pocket money, then deciding which Target book to go for. I devoured them -- Mark Gatiss

Author Bio

Rona Munro was born in Aberdeen and has written extensively for stage, film, radio and television. Her breakthrough play Bold Girls, won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. As the writer of "Survival" and "The Eaters of Light" she is the first (and only) writer of stories for both the classic 1963-1989 series of Doctor Who and the 2005 revived series.