Anji Kapoor has just had the worst week of her entire life, and things aren't getting any better.  She should be back at her desk, not travelling through time and space in a police box with a couple of strange men.

The Doctor (Strange Man No. 1) is supposed to be returning her to Soho 2001 AD.  So quite why there are dinosaurs outside, Anji isn't sure.  Sad sixties refugee Fitz (Strange Man No. 2) seems to think they're either in prehistoric times or on a parallel Earth.  And the Doctor is probably only pretending to know what's going on - because if her really knew, surely he qould have mentioned the homicidal triplet princesses, the teen terrorists, the deadly android doubles (and triples) and the hosts of mad robots?

Anji's never going to complain about Monday mornings in the office again…

Don't ever annoy the Fifth Axis. They might throw you into the Glass Prison on Deirbhile­ and then throw away the key.

Once you're inside, there's nowhere to hide. They can see your every movement. They control you. You're going to be watched for the rest of your life, wherever you go, whoever you are. Even if you're a professor of archaeology. Even if you're a friend of the famous Irving Braxiatel, and you've written several popular coffee-table books.

Even if you're pregnant. Even if your baby's due any day now.

But, of course, they know all about your baby. And they're planning to take it away.

That is, unless the loony cultists you're locked up with don't get it first.

Take a TARDIS trip through the constellations, as the Doctor travels to twelve thrilling tales inspired by the mystical zodiac.

Telepathic fish, miniature lions and twin planets are the least of his problems, as the Doctor all eight of him faces the Capricorn Killer, endures a mindswap with the Machiavellian Master, and dances with Death herself.

And that's not the half of it as the two K9s can attest.

This collection features twelve exclusive short- stories from well-known names in Doctor Who fiction including acclaimed novelist and Booker nominee Paul Magrs, alongside Simon A Forward, Mark Michalowski, Paul Leonard and Joseph Lidster as well as fresh new voices.

Legend tells of an evil sorceress who used the power of magical crystals to transfer her mind into the bodies of others. Her reign of terror was long and bloody, and her final defeat the cause of great rejoicing.

But that's just a legend. A story told to children. Isn't it? I mean, it's ridiculous. It couldn't have really happened could it?

Finding the last resting place of the Crystal Sorceress is an archaeological dream on a par with discovering the Holy Grail. So it's hardly likely that someone will just offer the solution to Professor Bernice Summerfield on a plate.

But sometimes the unlikely actually happens. And one thing that's very, very unlikely is that Benny will suddenly find herself to be a member of the opposite gender!

Iris is an enigma... She's an enigma wrapped in a mystery. With a shapeless, tasteless hat clamped to her head. She's an enigma wrapped in a mystery, with a shapeless, tasteless hat clamped her head and she's puffing on a gold-tipped black Sobranie.

And she drives a big red double-decker bus, ostensibly bound for Putney Common. Except it's not. She's been to Putney Common precisely once and that was by accident. That was when she picked up Tom, who is now her best friend.

Together they journey through the multiverse: boozing and fighting; righting wrongs and buggering things up again. Here, in their first exciting anthology of ludicrous adventures they meet monsters, klllers, ambassadors, insect-things, detectives, weirdos, psychics, fiends and sundry perverts.

Rose and the Doctor return to present-day Earth, and become intrigued by the latest craze - the video game Death to Mantodeans.  Is it as harmless as it seems?  And why are so many local people going on holiday and never returning?

Meanwhile, on another world, an alien war is raging.  The Quevvils need to find a new means of attacking the ruthless Mantodeans.  Searching the galaxy for cunning, warlike but gullable allies, they find the ideal soldiers - on Earth.

Will Rose be able to save her family and friends from the alien threat?  And can the Doctor play the game to the end - and win?

Featuring the Doctor and Rose as played by Christopher Eccleson and Billie Piper in the hit series from BBC television.

Harry Sullivan.
Died 28 November 1936.
Deliver us from evil.

Harry is dead.  Having left him abandoned and alone in pre-war Britain, the Doctor and Sarah try to solve the mystery of his death.  But the only witness is in a lunatic asylum, driven mad by what he has seen.  He tells of murder and mutilation, of living trees and long-dead legends, of wolfmen and war...  And of a mysterious stranger known only as the Doctor.

Can it be true that Harry discovered the last resting place of the Holy Grail?  Why are the flowers and trees in a Somerset village in full bloom at Christmas?  And is it just a coincidence that Harry died under a full moon?

This adventure features the Fourth and Eighth Doctors, Sarah Jane and Harry.