Hamster Book Club - The Doctor Who Book Club Podcast

All the talks from Target Book Day 2026 - if you couldn't be there...now you can! Robert Shearman, Stephen Cole, Julian Richards, Dr Matthew Sweet, Robert Crighton, James Goss, Jason Thompson, Gary Brannan, John Grindrod, Simon Guerrier, Paul Kirkley, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Jonathan Morris, Bruce Nicholson, Andrew Orton, Phil Pascoe, James Cooray-Smith, Paul MC Smith & Stephen Wyatt delight, educate and entertain in their mission to celebrate Target books!

It's the third instalment in the Timewyrm series and after the middling response to the first two, is this where it all turns around?

Co-host extraordinaire Michael Mills dives into the Puffin Classics range to discuss all things Dracula in Whitby Bay...

What happens when an author of serious repute jumps in to write a Doctor Who book featuring the Second Doctor, Jamie & Zoe?

Warning: Not for the faint hearted or Lorephobes! Anthony and Joe dive straight into the tangled web of continuity of Christopher Cwej, Lunbarrow, the Other and all the diabolical rest of it...

Extracted from our various book club episodes; Andrew, Jon, Luke & I rank our three best and worst BBC & Virgin covers!

Once again Jon has to try and extract nice things from three unimpressed book clubbers...there's some pleasant things to say about Uncle Terry, but mostly we're quite frustrated...

A republish of the time Jon joined Luke and Andrew and I for the first time to discuss a dense and florid (and much loved by two contributors here) Missing Adventure...

The Doctor’s Daughter, Miranda, and her friend Abigail investigate the new sinister headmaster…

Welcome Richie to the book club where he joins Michael and I to discuss a chunky novelisation with imagination, flair and some serious stakes!

Mark concludes the Sabbath arc with the timey twisty wimey high concept madness of Sometime Never... and delivers his verdict on the arc with a countdown of his least favourite to his absolute favourite...

Book club gentleman and scribe Jon Arnold delivers his favourite and least favourite Doctor Who books...

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...