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Tom Baker

Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor Who on British television, brings all his talent as a raconteur to this autobiography, which was first published in 1997 and ranges from his childhood, through his 7 years as Doctor Who to the engraving of his gravestone! Born in 1934, Baker grew up in an Irish Catholic neighbourhood in wartime Liverpool. His stories about his large family, his difficulties at school, his love of collecting war salvage, and his fascination with the church are entertaining, hila...

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Tom Baker, James Goss

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DOCTOR WHO

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhat are you afraid of?In his first-ever Doctor Who novel, Tom Baker’s incredible imagination is given free rein. A story so epic it was originally intended for the big screen, Scratchman is a gripping, white-knuckle thriller almost forty years in the making.The Doctor, Harry and Sarah Jane Smith arrive at a remote Scottish island, when their holiday is cut short by the appearance of strange creat...

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Tom Baker, Julian Brash, Phil Birge-Liberman, James Corner, Scott Larson, Christoph Lindner, Kevin Loughran, Nate Millington, Darren Patrick, Brian Rosa, Danya Sherman, Alan Smart, Daan Wesselman

2017 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is one of the world’s most iconic new urban landmarks. Since the opening of its first section in 2009, this unique greenway has exceeded all expectations in terms of attracting visitors, investment, and property development to Manhattan’s West Side. Frequently celebrated as a monument to community-led activism, adaptive re-use of...

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Philip Hinchcliffe, Marc Platt

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Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Various

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Doctor Who - The Fourth Doctor Adventures

Philip Hinchcliffe, acclaimed producer of Doctor Who (1975-77) returns to tell new stories for the Fourth Doctor and Leela.The Ghosts of Gralstead (Six episodes) and The Devil's Armada (Four episodes).The Ghosts of GralsteadThe Doctor and Leela return to London in 1860.At St Clarence's Hospital, Sir Edward Scrivener requires dead bodies...At Doctor McDivett's Exhibition of Living Wonders & Curiosities, mira...

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John le Carré

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Full Cast, Tom Baker

In the third year of perestroika, London publisher Barley Blair is sent a manuscript from Moscow. Exposing Russian nuclear threats as a sham, the information - if it’s genuine - could shatter East-West relations. Jazz-loving, hard-drinking Blair is hardly the spymasters’ idea of the perfect agent, yet they are forced to send him to Moscow to make contact. But the Cold War thaws when Barley meets Katya, the beautiful Russian intermediary who is equally sceptical of state ideology. Mere pawn...

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Victor Pemberton, Terrance Dicks, David Fisher, Eric Pringle, Marc Platt

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David Troughton, Tom Baker, Susan Engel, Nerys Hughes, Ian Hogg

Five classic novelisations of exciting TV adventures set on the planet Earth!In Fury from the Deep, the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria discover sentient seaweed threatening a gas refinery on the South Coast of England. In Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars, the Fourth Doctor and Sarah arrive in 1920s England, where plans are being laid to free Sutekh the Destroyer from his prison on Mars. In The Stones of Blood, the Fourth Doctor, Romana and K9 confro...

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Tom Baker

A collection of forty common flowers comprising of watercolor image, botanical history, photo and a prose poem. The watercolor is a soft rendering of the flower, followed by a brief botanical history and possible place in mythology, literature and sometimes pop culture. References range from Longfellow, Shakespeare to more contemporary sources diverse as Tiny Tim, Debbie Reynolds and Helen Keller among others. The photo captures intricate beauty of the flower, often resembling a painting. ...

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Tom Baker

“Modest, gem-like, and oddly a ecting, the sixteen quite short stories of Full Frontal present intimate moments of one gay man’s not untypical life in the late twentieth century. And, like a bracelet or necklace of quirky, individual charms, they ultimately add up to the kind of surprising cumulative e ect one usually only gets from knowing someone well for a long time.” —Felice Picano It is August of 1957, and Tim Halladay, a caddie at the Long Shore Country Club, is looking forward to be...

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Jonathan Morris

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Tom Baker, Mary Tamm, Various

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Doctor Who - The Fourth Doctor Adventures

1920s England:Whilst K9 is off in the TARDIS leading the Black Guardian on a wild goose chase, the Doctor and Romana are enjoying a leisurely lifestyle as the Lord and Lady of a London townhouse. But trouble never stays away from them for long, and before they know it a chance discovery of alien technology leads them deep into the heart of the English countryside where a malign presence lurks.As the Doctor dodges deadly butlers and ferocious gamekeepers, Ro...

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Tom Baker

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Tom Baker

In his first-ever Doctor Who novel, Tom Baker’s incredible imagination is given free rein. A story so epic it was originally intended for the big screen, Scratchman is a gripping, white-knuckle thriller almost forty years in the making.The Doctor, Harry and Sarah Jane Smith arrive at a remote Scottish island, when their holiday is cut short by the appearance of strange creatures – hideous scarecrows, who are preying on the local population. The islanders are living in fear, and the...

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Alan Barnes

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Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Geoffrey Beevers

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Doctor Who - The 4th Doctor Adventures

When the Doctor and Leela arrive in Derbyshire and get caught up in the hunt for a missing girl, they soon discover that the legend of the White Worm is very much alive, even in 1979. And it seems that the Doctor isn't the only Time Lord on the trail...

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Tom Baker

Twenty-eight-year-old Tim Halladay is a rising star in the three-martini lunch world of Madison Avenue advertising in the early 1970s. In only five years, Tim has become a vice president at the first ad agency he interviewed with, in charge of some of the most prestigious accounts listed in Advertising Age.But a week before Thanksgiving, his life takes a serious hit. After a hard-drinking, sex-filled night, Tim, the “golden boy,” arrives late to work. He suddenly finds him...