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  • Published: 31 January 2012
  • ISBN: 9781446417850
  • Imprint: BBC Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 283

Doctor Who - Byzantium!



'Life is cheap in Byzantium. Life is cheap everywhere that the Romans are.'

Byzantium. The imperial city - rising dramatically, as if by a trick of the light, from the peninsula of the Bosphorus and the Black Sea. Its domes and towers and minarets overlook a place of intrigue, lust, power, oppression, resistance and murder.

Romans, Greeks, Zealots, Pharisees...all meet in the market squares of the great city, but mutual loathing and suspicion are rife.

In this cauldron, the Doctor and his companions arrive, expecting to view the splendour and civilisation of the Roman empire. But events cast them into a deadly maelstrom of social and political upheaval. In the eye of the hurricane they must each face the possibility of being stranded, alone and far away from their own times, in an alien culture bunker.

  • Published: 31 January 2012
  • ISBN: 9781446417850
  • Imprint: BBC Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 283

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Keith Topping

Keith Topping has also written a number of Virgin programme guides, including Slayer: An Expanded and Updated Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Seasons One to Five); Slayer: The Next Generation (Season Six); Hollywood Vampire: The Unofficial Guide to Angel; Inside Bartlet's White House: An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to The West Wing and High Times: An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Roswell. Keith lives in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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