Looking at the Stars

An inspiring story of hope, friendship and love that will stay with you long after you turn the final page.

Jo Cotterill has worked as an actress and a teacher, but now writes full  time in her writing shed in her back garden. She lives in a little  village just outside Oxford with her husband and daughter. Jo plays the  flute quite well and the piano quite badly, and loves cheese more than  anything - even chocolate!

What if the only thing you had left were the stories in your head? 
 
Amina’s homeland has been ravaged by war, and her family is devastated . . . 
 
The women of the family – Amina, her two sisters and their mother – have no choice but to leave their home town, along with thousands of others, and head for a refugee camp. 
 
But there are even more challenges ahead . . .

Steve Cole

Paul Magrs

Jenny T Colgan

Jo Cotterill

Joanna Cotterill

Trevor Baxendale

Mike Tucker

‘Even though they’re gone from the world, they’re never gone from me.’ 
 
The Doctor is many things – curious, funny, brave, protective of her friends...and a shameless namedropper. While she and her companions battled aliens and travelled across the universe, the Doctor hinted at a host of previous, untold adventures with the great and the good: we discovered she got her sunglasses from Pythagoras (or was it Audrey Hepburn?); lent a mobile phone to Elvis; had an encounter with Amelia Earhart where she discovered that a pencil-thick spider web can stop a plane; had a 'wet weekend' with Harry Houdini, learning how to escape from chains underwater; and more. 
 
In this collection of new stories, Star Tales takes you on a rip-roaring ride through history, from 500BC to the swinging 60s, going deeper into the Doctor's notorious name-dropping and revealing the truth behind these anecdotes.

Doctor Who: Star Tales

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