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Dale Smith

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Dale Smith is a writer and playwright from Leicester but now living in Manchester, England. He is mostly know for his work in various Doctor Who spin-off material, with books written for the BBC, Telos Publications and Obverse Books.

His first work was an award-winning radio play called Hello?, and he has also written short stories for Big Finish productions.

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Average rating: 3.73 · 1,862 ratings · 182 reviews · 37 distinct works • Similar authors

	Doctor Who: The Many Hands 3.64 avg rating — 1,160 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who: Flywheel Revolution by Dale Smith (Goodreads Author), Peter Purves (Narrator) 3.75 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who: Heritage 3.61 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who: Black Dog by Dale Smith (Goodreads Author), Louise Jameson (Narrator) 3.55 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Albino's Dancer 3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who: The Piltdown Men by Dale Smith (Goodreads Author), Hugh Ross (Narrator) 2.92 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Talons of Weng-Chiang (The Black Archive, #58) 4.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spinning Jenny (Faction Paradox #14) 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (The Black Archive, #66) 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2023	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Perennial Miss Wildthyme by Dale Smith (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kara Dennison (Goodreads Author), Jay Eales (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Kate did not want a baby, no way. Sometimes it seemed like everybody else did, but not her. But it turns out she wasn't alone: neither did a friend of her granny's. Only this friend already had a baby, and was insisting it wasn't hers ...

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History of Modern France: From the Revolution to the War with Terror

by Jonathan Fenby

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The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Vintage)

by Bruno Bettelheim

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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time

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