A book set during the year while the Master ruled the Earth, as seen at the end of New Who Season 3, with a rather good linking narrative by Dan Abnett, during the course of which Martha recounts four of her past adventures with the Doctor to people she meets. The embedded stories are less good than the framing narrative, with the exception of Robert Shearman’s excellent “The Frozen Wastes”.
Repression was effective in Syria – it’s 30 years since the Hama Massacre, and only recently has there been a big resurgence of fundamentalism. Perhaps she’s thinking of repression at a less genocidal level.