The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2012

This is The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2012. (SCREAM!) Edited by Clayton Hickman, and featuring contributions from yours truly, amongst others, The Brilliant Book is a 168-page guide to the last year’s worth of Doctor Who. It went on sale TODAY.

Weaving fact and fiction, interviews and information, and packed with unseen photographs and original artwork, the book boasts brand new material from the writers of the TV show (including Mark Gatiss, Gareth Roberts, Matthew Graham, Tom MacRae, and Steve Thompson, with exclusive extras from Neil Gaiman), a full episode-by-episode guide (including deleted scenes and hidden gems you might have missed), plus my candid chats with series regulars Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, and Alex Kingston, and Doctor Who supremo Steven Moffat (who tells me the truth behind the BBC’s decision to make fewer episodes for 2012 – and hints at what’s to come in 2013, the show’s 50th anniversary year: “Epic, huge, massive, indulgent, all your treats at once… We’re going to be in production for longer than ever, just to do everything that we intend to do”).

Here is an exclusive audio clip from my interview with Matt:

Matt Smith (The Brilliant Book)

And one from my interview with Karen, discussing poor, “messed up” Amy:

Karen Gillan (The Brilliant Book)

The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2012 (pub. BBC Books, ISBN 978-1-849-90230-4) is available, in hardback, from all good bookstores, and online at the usual places: Play, Amazon, WHSmith, Waterstone’s, BBC Shop, et al.