Tag: Christopher Eccleston

I Love the Bones of You

by Derelict Space Sheep on January 9, 2023 in 42 Word Reviews • 0 Comments

I Love the Bones of You: My Father and the Making of Me

by Christopher Eccleston (Simon Schuster, 2019)

audiobook read by Christopher Eccleston (Simon Schuster Audio, 2019)

Open and honest. Eccleston’s autobiography is intensely personal but far from self-centred, focussing on mental health, the virtues, challenges and stigma of being working class, and most of all the inextricable bearing (both positive and negative) his father had upon his life.

Doctor Who: The Empty House

by Derelict Space Sheep on March 28, 2017 in 42 Word Reviews • 0 Comments

Doctor Who: The Empty House

by Simon Guerrier (BBC, 2013); audiobook read by Raquel Cassidy

Guerrier’s well-executed Eleventh Doctor novelette puts a new spin on some old Doctor Who tropes. (New to Who, that is; in the time-honoured tradition of gothic homage this one is rather reminiscent of Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others, which incidentally featured Christopher Eccleston.)