Best Introduction to a Book...

... I've ever read.

Whilst enjoying a coffee with Maria in the Loros book shop - I think it was the Loros shop, there's two charity bookshops opposite each other on Queens Road and I can't remember which belongs to which, anyway the one with the coffee shop - when I spotted Who on Earth is Tom Baker, the autobiography of my favourite Doctor (Who). I'd read the unsubstantial Matt Smith biography - more interesting to see how a writer had padded out a ten page life story to a full-length book by filling it with reviews from blogs I'd never heard of - and was the mood for something with smaller type and leading to get my teeth into. Spot the typesetter.

The Introduction - an overview.

1997. Baker endures a near disastrous plane journey to New Zealand to shoot an advert for pensions in a substantially let out Doctor Who costume. He is waited on by Anthony Hopkins in an expensive resteraunt and has his bill paid for by a mysterious benefactor, who turns out to be Piers Baker, his son who he'd not seen, presumably, since birth.

In a few pages you know Baker's relationship to acting, actors, Doctor Who, women and offspring.

Worth buying for the introduction alone!