Tag: Mark Wright

Sarah Jane Adventures: Wraith World

The Sarah Jane Adventures: Wraith World by Cavan Scott & Mark Wright; audiobook read by Elisabeth Sladen (AudioGO, 2010) Elisabeth Sladen does her best, and the premise of ‘fiction writing reality’ is one young adults will enjoy, but it’s difficult to take seriously a worm-horde-wielding villain who considerately puts his attacks on hold whenever the protagonists want to talk things…

Doctor Who: The Nu-Humans

Doctor Who: The Nu-Humans by Cavan Scott & Mark Wright (BBC, 2012); audiobook read by Raquel Cassidy Another book that captures the whimsical bow-tie flitting of the Eleventh Doctor but none of the underlying substance. Raquel Cassidy is perhaps an odd choice given the prominence of a heavy-voiced male nu-human. [Why the affectation? They’re not ‘nu’, dammit; they’re ‘new’.]  …