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BBC Books to publish four Target Doctor Who novels featuring the Fifteenth Doctor

BBC Books to publish four Target Doctor Who novels featuring the Fifteenth Doctor

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‘Space Babies’, ’73 Yards’, ‘Rogue’ and ‘The Church on Ruby Road’ will publish on 8th August in paperback and audiobook.

Space Babies

BY ALISON RUMFITT

Target - Space Babies

In space, something can hear you scream. And that something is coming. 

On her first adventure in outer space, Ruby learns that the universe is bigger, more colourful, and crazier than she could ever have imagined. She also learns that even the Doctor can feel afraid – and that certain nightmares are all too real…

A new voice to Doctor Who fiction, Alison Rumfitt, presents the Target novelisation of Russell T Davies’ first space adventure for the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday.

Alison Rumfitt is a writer and cultural critic. Her two horror novels TELL ME I’M WORTHLESS and BRAINWYRMS push the boundaries of both taste and form to the shock of readers everywhere. She has written for LITTLE WHITE LIES and DAZED, and interviewed the new Doctor Ncuti Gatwa for ROLLING STONE. She’s considered herself a fan of Doctor Who ever since her father played her the theme song to scare her when she was about five years old.

You can pre-order SPACE BABIES on paperback and audio here

73 Yards

BY SCOTT HANDCOCK

Target - 73 Yards

How long is 73 yards? Haunted by a sinister presence, Ruby must cope with losing the Doctor and the life she once knew. With her new life without her best friend becoming bleaker by the day, something terrifying is unleashed, and it’s up to Ruby to stop it. 

This eerie episode from Russell T Davies is novelised by series script editor Scott Handcock. Scott is a writer, producer and director, best known for his work on a range of horror and science-fiction series from Big Finish Productions including DOCTOR WHO, TORCHWOOD and THE CONFESSIONS OF DORIAN GRAY. Since 2006, he has lived in Cardiff, most recently working for Bad Wolf on the latest series of Doctor Who and its spin-off TALES OF THE TARDIS.

You can pre-order 73 YARDS on paperback and audio here

Rogue

BY KATE HERRON & BRIONY REDMAN

Target - Rogue

Doctor Who does Bridgerton with an alien twist in a sparky novelisation from original scriptwriters Kate Herron (LOKI/SEX EDUCATION) and Briony Redman.

Earth’s Regency era – a time of culture, extravagance, sumptuous balls… and aliens? While Ruby is a popular new addition to the Duchess of Pemberton’s ball, the Doctor’s world is about to be forever rocked by a dashing visitor from space. With many party-guests facing an identity crisis like no other, it is up to the Doctor and Ruby to stop the menacing Chuldurs’ plot.

Doctor Who presents a classic tale with an alien twist in a thrilling novelisation from the episode’s scriptwriters, Kate Herron and Briony Redman.

Briony Redman is a BAFTA Rocliffe-winning writer and comedian who works across film, television, theatre and comics. Briony met writing partner, Kate Herron, while doing short films and they bonded over a love of sci-fi and weird comedy. Briony is an experienced improviser who performs with Dungeons & Dragons comedy show, QUESTING TIME. This is their first book.

Kate Herron is a writer and filmmaker from London, working across film, television and comic books. She directed and exec-produced the entire first season of LOKI (Marvel and Disney Plus), directed the first season of SEX EDUCATION (Netflix), and is about to direct on THE LAST OF US (HBO). Kate has worked with her writing partner, Briony Redman for over a decade. Most recently they created a comic for Skybound entertainment company (THE WALKING DEAD), and both wrote together on Ncuti Gatwa’s first season of Doctor Who. This is her first book. 

You can pre-order ROGUE on paperback and audio here

The Church on Ruby Road

BY ESMIE JIKIEMI-PEARSON

Target - Ruby Road

Chance. Misfortune. Coincidence. These are the weapons of choice for the Doctor’s latest enemies. And those enemies are very, very hungry…

For Ruby Sunday, this Christmas Eve is a birthday she’ll never forget. It’s the day she joins the Doctor onboard a Goblin ship. The day she learns of dangers from beyond the universe. The day her life really begins… or, perhaps, the day it ends. 

The Target novelisation of the first full adventure featuring the Fifteenth Doctor, played by Ncuti Gatwa, and the introduction of his new best friend, Ruby Sunday played by Millie Gibson. Russell T Davies’ original script has been novelised by up-and-coming literary talent Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson.

Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson is a science-fantasy author and co-founder of the organisation Impact of Omission, as featured in the Guardian, Huffpost, and the Channel 4 Documentary WHERE’S MY HISTORY? with footballer and anti-racism campaigner Troy Deeney. Winner of the inaugural Gollancz and Rivers of London BAME SFF Award in 2020, now known as the Future Worlds Prize, her writing is invariably about Black people dismantling space empires, travelling through time, and saving the world – often simultaneously. 

You can pre-order THE CHURCH ON RUBY ROAD on paperback and audio here

SPACE BABIES, 73 YARDS, ROGUE and THE CHURCH ON RUBY ROAD will publish on 8th August in paperback and audiobook.

Artwork and details revealed for Doctor Who Target novels

Artwork and details revealed for Doctor Who Target novels

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The Doctor Who Target range is expanding with four new titles publishing on 14th July 2022, each with newly commissioned cover artwork by Anthony Dry. These four new novelisations of Doctor Who stories are great adventures to lose your in space and time, expand or even start your very own Target novel collection.

‘Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood’ by David Fisher

Available for pre-order here

SOB

The Doctor is delighted when his quest for the Key to Time leads him to his favourite planet, Earth. But his friends are less enchanted: Romana is nearly lured to her death by a sinister apparition, and K9 is all but destroyed by a belligerent boulder with the power to move – and a thirst for blood.

An ancient stone circle becomes a battleground as the Doctor must outwit the deadliest alien criminal this side of hyperspace – and her bloodthirsty silicon servants…

‘Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara’ by David Fisher

Available for pre-order here

AOT

The Doctor and Romana’s search for the fourth segment of the all-powerful Key to Time leads them to the planet Tara, where courtly intrigue and romantic pageantry employ the most sophisticated technology.

Within hours of arriving, Romana is mistaken for a powerful princess and the Doctor forced to dally with robotic royalty – and both are quickly embroiled in the scheming ambitions of the wicked Count Grendel. Finding the segment of the Key is easy enough, but escaping with it in one piece will prove an altogether more colourful affair…

David Fisher was approached by script editor Anthony Read to write for Doctor Who and the result was the 100th story, THE STONES OF BLOOD, which transmitted in 1978. Fisher first met Read when the latter was setting up a series called THE TROUBLESHOOTERS in 1965. Fisher went on to write for ORLANDO (1967), DIXON OF DOCK GREEN (1969), SUTHERLAND’S LAW (1973) and GENERAL HOSPITAL (1977). As well as THE STONES OF BLOOD, Fisher also contributed THE ANDROIDS OF TARA, THE CREATURE FROM THE PIT and THE LEISURE HIVE to Doctor Who. The first two stories were novelised by Terrance Dicks, but Fisher decided to pen the latter two himself for the Target range.

Following his work on Doctor Who, Fisher wrote for HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR (1980), HAMMER HOUSE OF MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE (1984) and collaborated with Read on a number of historical books with subjects including World War Two espionage, the Nazi persecution of Jews and the Nazi/Soviet pact of the early 1940s.

‘Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii’ by James Moran

Available for pre-order here

FOP

It is AD 79, and the TARDIS lands in Pompeii on the eve of the town’s destruction. Mount Vesuvius is ready to erupt and bury its surroundings in molten lava, just as history dictates. Or is it?

The Doctor and Donna find that Pompeii is home to impossible things: circuits made of stone, soothsayers who read minds and fiery giants made of burning rock. From a lair deep in the volcano, these creatures plot the end of humanity – and the Doctor soon finds he has no way to win…

James Moran is a British screenwriter for television and film, who wrote the horror-comedy SEVERANCE. He works in the horror, comedy, science-fiction, historical fiction and spy thriller genres.

‘Doctor Who: The Eaters of Light’ by Rona Munro

Available for pre-order here

TEOL

The Doctor takes Bill and Nardole back to 2nd century Scotland to learn the fate of the ‘lost’ Ninth Legion of the Imperial Roman Army. 5,000 soldiers vanished without explanation – how?

The search for the truth leads the Doctor and his friends into a deadly mystery. Who is the Guardian of the Gate? What nightmare creature roams the wildlands, darkening the sky and destroying all in its path? A threat from another dimension has been unleashed on the Earth, and only a terrible sacrifice can put things right…

Rona Munro was born in Aberdeen and has written extensively for stage, film, radio and television. Her breakthrough play BOLD GIRLS, won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. As the writer of SURVIVAL and THE EATERS OF LIGHT she is the first (and only) writer of stories for both the classic 1963-1989 series of Doctor Who and the 2005 revived series.

All these Target novels will be released on July 14th 2022.

New Target novel collection in July 2020

New Target novel collection in July 2020

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Doctor Who Target Novelisations for 2020

The Doctor Who Target range will be expanding with five new titles coming out in Summer 2020. Doctor Who fans will finally be able to expand their Target collections with beautiful paperback editions of five new novels, plus two novels previously only available in hardback.

BBC Books will publish all seven Target novels on 23rd July 2020.

Following the release of two new Target novelisations this year, Resurrection of the Daleks and Revelation of the Daleks, both by Eric Saward, five new Target editions are coming next summer.

Seven Doctor Who titles are being released:

  • The Pirate Planet by James Goss, the first time this Douglas Adams story has been published in the Target range
  • Resurrection of the Daleks by Eric Saward
  • Revelation of the Daleks by Eric Saward
  • The TV Movie novelisation by Gary Russell
  • Dalek by Robert Shearman
  • The Crimson Horror by Mark Gatiss
  • The Witchfinders by Joy Wilkinson, the first Thirteenth Doctor adventure to be published on the Target list

For Doctor Who fans, the range of novelisations published by Target Books in the 1970s and 1980s holds a special place in their hearts. There was a novel published for almost every Doctor Who serial between 1963 and 1989, and BBC Books has been successfully reissuing a number of these classic paperbacks since 2012.

In 2017, BBC Books expanded the range by publishing the first all-new batch of Target novels alongside new-era novelisations from Russell T Davies, Steven Moffat, Paul Cornell, James Goss and Jenny T Colgan – all five of them instant classics.

On becoming the first Thirteenth Doctor adventure author to be published on the Target list, Joy Wilkinson said:

“I’m thrilled to become part of the illustrious tradition of Target novels. It was so much fun dipping my toe back into prose with the Target Storybook so I’m now relishing the chance to return to the world of The Witchfinders and get fully immersed. It’s a great chance to spend more time with the Doctor and fam, hang with King James, and find out more about the mysteries of Bilehurst Cragg and the mighty, muddy Morax.”

Robert Shearman added:

“I’m still pinching myself that I was asked to write the first Dalek story of the new series – and that was fifteen years ago! I didn’t dare dream that the show would become such a big hit, and that it would still be on air now, as big and as exciting as ever – there have been so many adventures since, and so many new Doctors, and, of course, so many more Daleks. It feels like a real honour now to go back in time and relive my script… and maybe reveal a few surprises that never made it to the screen…”

Mark Gatiss said:

“Novelisations of the ‘new’ series are the final piece of this whole wonderful puzzle for me and to become a Target author after all these years is a complete delight! It’s been lovely to revisit one of my favourite scripts and flesh out the lurid residents of Sweetville in all their crimson finery.”

These books will be available in paperback, each with newly commissioned cover artwork by Anthony Dry. Also coming later in the year will be audiobook versions, available for pre-order as well.

BBC Books will publish all seven Targets on 23rd July 2020. You can pre-order them here: