Guy Adams
Author of Sherlock: The Casebook
About the Author
Guy Adams trained and worked as an actor for twelve
years before becoming a full-time writer. He is the coauthor
of The Case Notes of Sherlock Holmes, has written
several tie-ins to the TV series Life on Mars. His most
recently published novel is Restoration, the follow-up to the
much-praised show more horror novel, The World House. show less
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Series
Works by Guy Adams
The Third Doctor Adventures: The Transcendence of Ephros / The Hidden Realm (2016) 7 copies, 1 review
Between the Sheets 7 copies
Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Adventure Series 10 Volume 1 (Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 10) (2021) — Author — 6 copies
Blake's 7: The Liberator Chronicles, Volume 12: Corners of the Mind, Capital and Punishment (2016) — Author — 6 copies
The Diary of River Song: The Unknown 5 copies
The Third Doctor Adventures: The Rise of the New Humans / The Tyrants of Logic (2018) — Author — 5 copies
The Children of the Stones [radio drama] — Scriptwriter — 2 copies
The Diary of River Song: Peepshow 2 copies
Dr Who: The War Master: Only the Good: The Heavenly Paradigm — Author — 1 copy
Children of the Stones 1 copy
The Door 1 copy
Notes from the upside down: Das inoffizielle Buch zu Stranger Things - Die Erfolgsserie auf Netflix (2019) 1 copy
Death in New Venice 1 copy
Time's Assassin 1 copy
The Year After I Died 1 copy
Class: In Remembrance — Author — 1 copy
The Scream of Ghosts 1 copy
Month 25 1 copy
Messaggi del sottosopra 1 copy
Poison of the Daleks 1 copy
Associated Works
The Mammoth Book of Zombie Apocalypse! Fightback (Mammoth Books) (2012) — Contributor — 65 copies, 1 review
Bound in Blood: Stories of Cursed Books, Damned Libraries and Unearthly Authors (2024) — Contributor — 57 copies, 3 reviews
The Other Side of Never: Dark Tales from the World of Peter & Wendy (2023) — Contributor — 31 copies
Birds, Strangers and Psychos: New stories inspired by Alfred Hitchcock (2025) — Contributor — 12 copies, 1 review
Human Rights and the Moral Responsibilities of Corporate and Public Sector Organisations (Issues in Business Ethics) (2004) — Contributor — 8 copies
Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures, Volume Two — Contributor — 6 copies
The New Counter-Measures: Series 1 — Contributor — 5 copies
2000 AD Free Comic Book Day #2017 — Contributor — 2 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Adams, Guy
- Legal name
- Adams, Guy
- Other names
- Ashe, Gregory
- Birthdate
- 1976-01-06
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- museum curator
tour guide
historical researcher
actor
news agent - Organizations
- British Fantasy Society
- Short biography
- Guy Adams collects careers like baseball cards. In his, surprisingly limited, time he has tried his hand at Museum Curator, Tour Guide, Historical Researcher, Newsagent…
His main occupations, however, have always been acting and writing. In the former he has mugged people in Emmerdale, watched Rugby in Where The Heart Is, perved around in his y-fronts simulating sex with a woman dressed as a horse (Jean Genet’s The Balcony) and earned something of a reputation by impersonating real people (Hemingway, George Bernard Shaw and Hitler, to name but a few). He also toured as one half of the wittily titled Adams & Jarrett on the comedy circuit and is the youngest actor to portray Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes professionally.
As a writer, he has churned out scripts for the above comedy shows and falsified Elizabethan Mummer’s Plays. A couple of novels, More Than This and The Imagineer have earned nothing but people seem to like them so he doesn’t let it worry him. He is the author of three books about the television series Life On Mars — two for Simon & Schuster and one for Transworld. If nothing else, these have kept him in Gin.
He is currently working on a big book about Sherlock Holmes, a Deadbeat novella or three and a children’s book set in his adoptive country of Spain which he is rather hopeful that one of the previous mentioned publishers will pay him good money for. - Nationality
- UK
- Places of residence
- Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK
Moraira, La Marina Alta, Spain - Associated Place (for map)
- England, UK
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Reviews
Count your damned blessings people. The third installment of The Change includes the boilerplate legal note in the book details. 'This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.'
Hopefully Paris is not filled with giant murderous marionettes, living entities made of paint, or other horrors. If it it is infested, let us hope the resemblance is minimally accurate. Anything you show more can dream up post change can manifest, how and why is any one's guess.
Book three of The Change is a fine standalone book as well as world continuation. In this version of Earth, anyone looking to the sky on the date of change fell over instantly as lifeless meat sacks. Those who witnessed via recorded media are lunatics. Everyone else is just surviving day by day.
One might think themselves crazy if they dwell on the topic.
In Paris, the safest place is in the Catacombs. What once was a dangerous trap for the unsuspecting, now serves as a maze of dark safety for bands of humans. Growing mushrooms for sustenance and eating food scavenged from city raids, they are getting along reasonably.
Loic is a sixteen year old citizen of the underground. He is a member of one of the scavenger teams. He looks after post-apocalypse adoptive brother Adrien. He gets by.
Unfortunately, The Impressionists do not require light to move through the tunnels. They are not afraid of the dark, not disturbed by the moaning movements of the centuries old dead sitting by the walls. When The Impressionists raid the colony of survivors, they wrap their paint around their victims and drag them away, who knows where.
After Loic returns from a scavenging trip he finds that The Impressionists have taken Adrien and another child. Loic heads back to the surface in search of his brother.
Of all the books of The Change, this novella was by far my favorite. It contained some severe images which required me to wikipedia. For example, La Tricoteuse sitting by a guillotine knitting the innards of the dead. While historically inaccurate (use of innards), it is absolutely representative of the dark and disturbing La Tricoteuse pass time. Humans are screwed up.
The real kick for me was reading an argument between Robespierre’s children. Atheism arguing with Ego arguing with... it was a nice touch.
Great novella for sure.
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Disclosure: This collection of words (nouns verbs adverbs etc) was presented digitally by the publication company for my opinion to be applied against in the form of written perception. Chance of false opinion is an impossibility as I am kind of an outspoken ass who likes to complain as much as talk about things I enjoy. show less
Hopefully Paris is not filled with giant murderous marionettes, living entities made of paint, or other horrors. If it it is infested, let us hope the resemblance is minimally accurate. Anything you show more can dream up post change can manifest, how and why is any one's guess.
Book three of The Change is a fine standalone book as well as world continuation. In this version of Earth, anyone looking to the sky on the date of change fell over instantly as lifeless meat sacks. Those who witnessed via recorded media are lunatics. Everyone else is just surviving day by day.
One might think themselves crazy if they dwell on the topic.
In Paris, the safest place is in the Catacombs. What once was a dangerous trap for the unsuspecting, now serves as a maze of dark safety for bands of humans. Growing mushrooms for sustenance and eating food scavenged from city raids, they are getting along reasonably.
Loic is a sixteen year old citizen of the underground. He is a member of one of the scavenger teams. He looks after post-apocalypse adoptive brother Adrien. He gets by.
Unfortunately, The Impressionists do not require light to move through the tunnels. They are not afraid of the dark, not disturbed by the moaning movements of the centuries old dead sitting by the walls. When The Impressionists raid the colony of survivors, they wrap their paint around their victims and drag them away, who knows where.
After Loic returns from a scavenging trip he finds that The Impressionists have taken Adrien and another child. Loic heads back to the surface in search of his brother.
Of all the books of The Change, this novella was by far my favorite. It contained some severe images which required me to wikipedia. For example, La Tricoteuse sitting by a guillotine knitting the innards of the dead. While historically inaccurate (use of innards), it is absolutely representative of the dark and disturbing La Tricoteuse pass time. Humans are screwed up.
The real kick for me was reading an argument between Robespierre’s children. Atheism arguing with Ego arguing with... it was a nice touch.
Great novella for sure.
--
Disclosure: This collection of words (nouns verbs adverbs etc) was presented digitally by the publication company for my opinion to be applied against in the form of written perception. Chance of false opinion is an impossibility as I am kind of an outspoken ass who likes to complain as much as talk about things I enjoy. show less
The connecting thread for the four stories that comprise Series 6 of The Diary of River Song is, as the behind-the-scenes chat has it, “the fringes”: these stories all take place at the edges of classic Doctor Who stories featuring the first four Doctors.
The most obvious connection is in An Unearthly Woman, which sees River netting herself a place as a substitute teacher at Coal Hill School to keep an eye on Susan before the events of “An Unearthly Child”, the story that started it show more all. This was my favourite story in the volume: it started the whole thing off well; the dialogue with River, Ian, and Barbara was fun; and Claudia Grant does an excellent job as Susan. Also special cameo appearance by David Bradley! Love him to bits.
Next stop is The Web of Time, which Whovians will recognize as riffing on the Second Doctor story “The Web of Fear”. A It has a sort of Second World War Blitz kind of feel as the army is evacuating people from the city—although this time people are being discouraged from using the Underground, rather than encouraged. Captain Knight, who appears in The Web of Fear, plays a key role here. (His name sounded familiar to me and I had a different theory as to why.) The idea of the art heist was the slenderest of MacGuffins but it’s certainly in keeping with River’s occasional mercenary streak.
The rather naughty-sounding Peepshow takes its title from a working title for the Third Doctor story “Carnival of Monsters”. I am always here for Doctor Who enemies insulting each other, and the Sontarans and the Ogrons do a great job of it. Any story with Dan Starkey Sontaraning it up will put a smile on my face. I was less enthusiastic about the dynamic between River and Dibbsworth, the security guard who ends up being River’s companion for this adventure. Especially icky was his OTT reaction to what I presume was love-potion lipstick. It seemed to be overegged as a joke. I also managed to zone out at the end and completely miss Tim Treloar’s cameo as the Third Doctor.
Lastly, The Talents of Greel takes place just before the events of the Fourth Doctor story The Talons of Weng-Chiang (the title is a pun on the TV story’s working title “The Talons of Greel”) I couldn’t like this story very much, I’m afraid; Weng-Chiang is one of the cringiest stories in the entire Doctor Who canon because of its portrayals of Chinese people and the use of yellowface acting, so I was not disposed to like a story connected to it. They did get Nicholas Goh to voice Li H’Sen Chang and Mr Sin, but still. Another icky thing was Greel’s choice of young women as the source of life essence. Like come on dude, super gross. At one point Jago even said something about his new theatre patron’s “obsession with chorus girls”, and I said out loud “Okay Jago, want to roll that back again and hear how CREEPY that sounds?” Blech. It didn’t end the collection on a great note. show less
The most obvious connection is in An Unearthly Woman, which sees River netting herself a place as a substitute teacher at Coal Hill School to keep an eye on Susan before the events of “An Unearthly Child”, the story that started it show more all. This was my favourite story in the volume: it started the whole thing off well; the dialogue with River, Ian, and Barbara was fun; and Claudia Grant does an excellent job as Susan. Also special cameo appearance by David Bradley! Love him to bits.
Next stop is The Web of Time, which Whovians will recognize as riffing on the Second Doctor story “The Web of Fear”. A It has a sort of Second World War Blitz kind of feel as the army is evacuating people from the city—although this time people are being discouraged from using the Underground, rather than encouraged. Captain Knight, who appears in The Web of Fear, plays a key role here. (His name sounded familiar to me and I had a different theory as to why.) The idea of the art heist was the slenderest of MacGuffins but it’s certainly in keeping with River’s occasional mercenary streak.
The rather naughty-sounding Peepshow takes its title from a working title for the Third Doctor story “Carnival of Monsters”. I am always here for Doctor Who enemies insulting each other, and the Sontarans and the Ogrons do a great job of it. Any story with Dan Starkey Sontaraning it up will put a smile on my face. I was less enthusiastic about the dynamic between River and Dibbsworth, the security guard who ends up being River’s companion for this adventure. Especially icky was his OTT reaction to what I presume was love-potion lipstick. It seemed to be overegged as a joke. I also managed to zone out at the end and completely miss Tim Treloar’s cameo as the Third Doctor.
Lastly, The Talents of Greel takes place just before the events of the Fourth Doctor story The Talons of Weng-Chiang (the title is a pun on the TV story’s working title “The Talons of Greel”) I couldn’t like this story very much, I’m afraid; Weng-Chiang is one of the cringiest stories in the entire Doctor Who canon because of its portrayals of Chinese people and the use of yellowface acting, so I was not disposed to like a story connected to it. They did get Nicholas Goh to voice Li H’Sen Chang and Mr Sin, but still. Another icky thing was Greel’s choice of young women as the source of life essence. Like come on dude, super gross. At one point Jago even said something about his new theatre patron’s “obsession with chorus girls”, and I said out loud “Okay Jago, want to roll that back again and hear how CREEPY that sounds?” Blech. It didn’t end the collection on a great note. show less
The First Doctor Adventures star David Bradley as the Doctor’s original incarnation, along with Claudia Grant as Susan, Jemma Powell as Barbara, and Jamie Glover as Ian. Volume 1 contains two hour-long dramas: The Destination Wars and The Great White Hurricane.
The Destination Wars is set on a distant planet in “Space Year 2003”, which is a lovely nod to the sort of futuristic story the 60s produced and that now seem quaintly retro. It features robots, warring species, and an almost show more godlike figure called “the Inventor”. Now who could that be…?
The Great White Hurricane, meanwhile, is a straight-up historical, plunking the TARDIS crew in New York City just as a raging blizzard is about to set in. Barbara, as a history teacher, knows all too well how dangerous the city is going to be if they can’t stay together—and then they get caught up in a gang war!
The structure and pacing of both stories beautifully echo the original series; each story is divided into four “episodes” of approximately 25 minutes, and each episode after the first very briefly repeats the last couple of lines of the previous episodes. This makes the set especially handy for listening to in chunks. David Bradley gives an excellent performance as the First Doctor; although the First Doctor has a reputation for being cantankerous, Bradley doesn’t play that note constantly. When he *does* fire off acerbic one-liners, they are that much more effective.
Of the two stories, I greatly preferred The Destination Wars. Retro-futuristic stories are somewhat my jam, and all of the companions had some good moments. I especially enjoyed Barbara and Ian teaming up to fight the Inventor (who’s actually the Master — it’s not really a spoiler…).
I was less satisfied with The Great White Hurricane, because the American accents drove me to distraction. I’m not sure how many of the actors were actually American, and I couldn’t tell. Perhaps I am just so used to hearing accents from the British Isles on Doctor Who that American accents sound “wrong” for the context (which I admit is a bit snooty), but I would not be surprised if there were non-American actors trying to sustain the American accent for a long period.
Edit June 17, 2018: I just finished listening to the "behind the scenes" disc and two of the actors seem to have come from the States, so I'm more inclined to favour my hypothesis that the problem was on my end more so than on theirs ;)
It does occur to me that there were slightly dodgy American accents in the original series—the cowboy at the top of the Empire State Building in “The Chase” springs to mind—so perhaps we can call it an homage ;) I also found the rival gang member cartoonish in his desire to avenge his friend’s killing, particularly toward the end of the story. But the overall idea for the story was a good one and could certainly prompt people to find out more about the historical circumstances that inspired it.
I would guardedly recommend this set, more for David Bradley’s performance and for the evocation of the original show: the combination of sci-fi and historical stories, the structure and pacing, and the sound design (and that lovely original theme!). I will be interested to see what stories come up in Volume 2. show less
The Destination Wars is set on a distant planet in “Space Year 2003”, which is a lovely nod to the sort of futuristic story the 60s produced and that now seem quaintly retro. It features robots, warring species, and an almost show more godlike figure called “the Inventor”. Now who could that be…?
The Great White Hurricane, meanwhile, is a straight-up historical, plunking the TARDIS crew in New York City just as a raging blizzard is about to set in. Barbara, as a history teacher, knows all too well how dangerous the city is going to be if they can’t stay together—and then they get caught up in a gang war!
The structure and pacing of both stories beautifully echo the original series; each story is divided into four “episodes” of approximately 25 minutes, and each episode after the first very briefly repeats the last couple of lines of the previous episodes. This makes the set especially handy for listening to in chunks. David Bradley gives an excellent performance as the First Doctor; although the First Doctor has a reputation for being cantankerous, Bradley doesn’t play that note constantly. When he *does* fire off acerbic one-liners, they are that much more effective.
Of the two stories, I greatly preferred The Destination Wars. Retro-futuristic stories are somewhat my jam, and all of the companions had some good moments. I especially enjoyed Barbara and Ian teaming up to fight the Inventor (who’s actually the Master — it’s not really a spoiler…).
I was less satisfied with The Great White Hurricane, because the American accents drove me to distraction. I’m not sure how many of the actors were actually American, and I couldn’t tell. Perhaps I am just so used to hearing accents from the British Isles on Doctor Who that American accents sound “wrong” for the context (which I admit is a bit snooty), but I would not be surprised if there were non-American actors trying to sustain the American accent for a long period.
Edit June 17, 2018: I just finished listening to the "behind the scenes" disc and two of the actors seem to have come from the States, so I'm more inclined to favour my hypothesis that the problem was on my end more so than on theirs ;)
It does occur to me that there were slightly dodgy American accents in the original series—the cowboy at the top of the Empire State Building in “The Chase” springs to mind—so perhaps we can call it an homage ;) I also found the rival gang member cartoonish in his desire to avenge his friend’s killing, particularly toward the end of the story. But the overall idea for the story was a good one and could certainly prompt people to find out more about the historical circumstances that inspired it.
I would guardedly recommend this set, more for David Bradley’s performance and for the evocation of the original show: the combination of sci-fi and historical stories, the structure and pacing, and the sound design (and that lovely original theme!). I will be interested to see what stories come up in Volume 2. show less
Join me in my jump through time and space, will you, Sweetie?
First thing is first. If you know me, then you will know I tend to have a genuine distaste for Professor River Song. I typically find her to be terribly obnoxious. Way too "I'm badass, you and everyone in this universe and the next know it." Really freaking annoying, guys. Occasionally, she grows on me though, more so as of late, but she's still on my "not so fab character list." Same with Missy. I hated her in the beginning, but show more near the end of Capaldi's era, I started to like her a bit more. For this reason, I had put off picking up this book. But, after some time had passed, I came across this in the library stacks and, for shits and giggles, I decided to pick it up.
I was pleasantly surprised. It was kind of funny and made me like River a bit more than I had. The book consisted of five "diary entries," all from different events in River's life. Of which, I believe, two included the Doctor. And one which included a living mannequin of Elvis. But that's a story for you to check out for yourself. As River says, "Spoilers!"
Each of the stories, or diary entries, gave me a new perspective on River's character. Though you'll see with her character on the show, River tends to only care for herself, the Doctor, and her parents, Amy and Rory. In the book, she shows a part of herself we don't normally see. That River is the main heroine. She decides how she will act. She decides whether or not she will intervene in events. We actually get to see some of her adventures, which was fun.
If you're like me and tend to avoid anything Professor River Song (though her diary I would steal in a heartbeat. And the vortex manipulator), you shouldn't skip out on The Legends of River Song.
P.S. There is the occasional spelling error--and no, I'm not talking about the differences between American English and British English, these are legit mistakes (i.e.: closed instead of close) and the occasional missing punctuation mark. But don't worry, they don't interfere with the story, nor do they occur too often. It's just stuff that was missed before publication. show less
First thing is first. If you know me, then you will know I tend to have a genuine distaste for Professor River Song. I typically find her to be terribly obnoxious. Way too "I'm badass, you and everyone in this universe and the next know it." Really freaking annoying, guys. Occasionally, she grows on me though, more so as of late, but she's still on my "not so fab character list." Same with Missy. I hated her in the beginning, but show more near the end of Capaldi's era, I started to like her a bit more. For this reason, I had put off picking up this book. But, after some time had passed, I came across this in the library stacks and, for shits and giggles, I decided to pick it up.
I was pleasantly surprised. It was kind of funny and made me like River a bit more than I had. The book consisted of five "diary entries," all from different events in River's life. Of which, I believe, two included the Doctor. And one which included a living mannequin of Elvis. But that's a story for you to check out for yourself. As River says, "Spoilers!"
Each of the stories, or diary entries, gave me a new perspective on River's character. Though you'll see with her character on the show, River tends to only care for herself, the Doctor, and her parents, Amy and Rory. In the book, she shows a part of herself we don't normally see. That River is the main heroine. She decides how she will act. She decides whether or not she will intervene in events. We actually get to see some of her adventures, which was fun.
If you're like me and tend to avoid anything Professor River Song (though her diary I would steal in a heartbeat. And the vortex manipulator), you shouldn't skip out on The Legends of River Song.
P.S. There is the occasional spelling error--and no, I'm not talking about the differences between American English and British English, these are legit mistakes (i.e.: closed instead of close) and the occasional missing punctuation mark. But don't worry, they don't interfere with the story, nor do they occur too often. It's just stuff that was missed before publication. show less
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