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The Eight Doctors - BBC
Books / by Terrance Dicks / RRP: £5.99 |
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Recuperating after the trauma of his recent
regeneration, the Doctor falls foul of a final booby trap set by his
arch-enemy, the Master.
When he recovers, the disorientated Doctor looks in a mirror and sees
the face of a stranger. He knows only that he is called the Doctor -
nothing more. But something deep inside tells him to trust the TARDIS,
and his hands move over the controls of their own accord.
The TARDIS takes him to a strangely familiar junkyard in late-nineties
London, where he is flung into a confrontation between local
drug-dealers and Samantha Jones, a rebellious teenager from Coal Hill
School.
But the Doctor soon finds the TARDIS transporting him to various other
places in order to recover all his memories - and that involves seeing
seven strangely-familiar faces... | |
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Vampire Science - BBC
Books / by Jonathan Blum & Kate Orman / RRP: £5.99 |
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In the days when the Time Lords were young, their
war with the Vampires cost trillions of lives on countless worlds. Now
the Vampires have been sighted again, in San Francisco Some want to
coexist with humans, using genetic engineering in a macabre experiment
to find a new source of blood. But some would rather go out in a blaze
of glory - and UNIT's attempts to contain them could provoke another
devastating war.
The Doctor strikes a dangerous bargain, but even he might not be able to
keep the city from getting caught in the crossfire. While he finds
himself caught in a web of old feuds and high-tech schemes, his new
companion Sam finds just how deadly travelling with the Doctor can be. | |
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The Bodysnatchers - BBC
Books / by Mark Morris / RRP: £5.99 |
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It is London, 1894. Amid the fog, cold and
degradation, a gruesome business is being conducted. The bodies of the
dead are being stolen from their graves - men, women and children alike
- for the sinister purpose of a very mysterious gentleman.
When the Doctor and Sam arrive, they are witness to a horrifying scene
in the evil-smelling fog: something rises up from the filthy waters of
the Thames and devours a man - a man terrified for his life and on the
run from the devil himself...
Teaming up with an old friend, pathologist Professor George Litefoot,
the Doctor is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. Together
with Sam, they discover there is a far graver threat facing London then
just earthly grave robbers. Deadly alien beings the Doctor has
encountered before are at work, and they bring a whole new twist to the
word bodysnatchers... | |
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Genocide - BBC
Books / by Paul Leonard / RRP: £5.99 |
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Years after leaving UNIT, Jo Grant receives a plea
for help from an old acquaintance. A palaeontological study of the
earliest known humans is apparently under threat from a UNIT force led
by a captain who does not officially exist. Investigating further, she
begins to find herself out of her depth - and out of the twentieth
century altogether...
Meanwhile, the Doctor and Sam visit Earth in 2109 - but there is no
trace of the human race. Earth is home of the Tractites, a peaceful race
who have been living there for hundreds of thousands of years.
Astonished and appalled, the Doctor travels back in time to see just
what went wrong in Earth's prehistory.
Why have Jo and the expedition been taken back in time? Are the
Tractites all they seem? Finally, separated from the TARDIS, the
Doctor's last chance to put things right rests with Sam - but has even
she turned against him? | |
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War of the Daleks - BBC
Books / by John Peel / RRP: £5.99 |
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The Doctor is repairing the TARDIS systems once
again when it is swept up by a garbage ship roving through space, the
Quetzel.
When another ship approaches and takes the Quetzel by force, the Doctor
discovers that he and Sam are not the only unwitting travellers on board
- there is a strangely familiar survival pod in the hold. Delani, the
captain of the second ship, orders the pod to be opened. The Doctor is
powerless to intervene as Davros is awakened once again.
But this is no out-and-out rescue of Davros. Delani and his crew are
Thals, the sworn enemies of the Daleks. They intend to use Davros as a
means to wipe out the Daleks, finally ridding the universe of the most
aggressive, deadly race ever to exist. But the Doctor is still worried.
For there is a signal beacon inside the pod, and even now a Dalek ship
is closing in... | |
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Alien Bodies - BBC
Books / by Lawrence Miles / RRP: £5.99 |
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On an island in the East Indies, in a lost city
buried deep in the heart of the rainforest, agents of the most
formidable powers in the galaxy are gathering. They have been invited
there to bid for what could turn out to be the deadliest weapon ever
created.
When the Doctor and Sam arrive in the city, the Time Lord soon realises
they've walked into the middle of the strangest auction in history - and
what's on sale to the highest bidder is something more horrifying than
even the Doctor could have imagined, something that could change his
life forever.
And just when it seems things can't get any worse, the Doctor finds out
who else is on the guest list. | |
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Kursaal - BBC
Books / by Peter Anghelides / RRP: £5.99 |
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Kursaal is a pleasure world, a huge theme park for
the Cronus System — or rather it will be if it isn't destroyed during
construction.
Eco-terrorists want the project halted to preserve vital archaeological
sites -- areas containing the last remains of the long-dead Jax, an
ancient wolf-like race whose remains are being buried beneath the
big-business tourist attractions.
Sam falls in with the environmentalists, and finds her loyalties
divided. Meanwhile, the Doctor's own investigations lead him to believe
the Jax are not extinct after all.
Cut off from the TARDIS, separated from his companion and pursued for
murder, the Doctor discovers Kursaal hides a terrible secret — and that
Sam is being affected by events more than anyone would guess... | |
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Option Lock - BBC
Books / by Justin Richards / RRP: £5.99 |
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Landing in present-day England, all appears serene
as the Doctor and Sam emerge from the TARDIS into the idyllic grounds of
the Silver family’s ancestral home. Only when they enter the house do
they suspect things are not what they seem.
How far-reaching is the strange power of a secret society almost 700
years old, and how is it linked to the mysterious Station Nine? And what
is the significance of a series of paintings that drove a man to
suicide?
From thirteenth-century England to the former Soviet Union, from the
United States to the cold wastes of space, the various strands of a
complex plan come together and threaten to engulf the world in a
nightmare of nuclear destruction... | |
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Longest Day - BBC
Books / by Michael Collier / RRP: £5.99 |
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Its surface ravaged by colliding time-fields, the
planet Hirath is a patchwork of habitable areas separated by
impenetrable zones of wild temporal fluctuation.
The planet’s unique biosphere is being exploited by an uncaring company
happy to rent out temporally isolated chunks of the planet to the
highest bidder -- no questions asked. But the controlling computer seems
to be malfunctioning, and the viability of the whole planet hangs in the
balance -- along with countless thousands of lives.
Arriving at Hirath’s control base, the Doctor and Sam are soon separated
and trapped on the dying planet. While Sam becomes the focus of
attention in a barren penal settlement, the Doctor discovers the secret
of Hirath’s unique condition - just as a race of hideous bloodthirsty
alien creatures arrive in force to reclaim it.
Caught up in a desperate struggle for survival, it seems time has run
out for every living creature on Hirath - not least Sam and the
Doctor... | |
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Legacy of the Daleks - BBC
Books / by John Peel / RRP: £5.99 |
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England in the late 22nd century is slowly
recovering from the devastation that followed the Daleks’ invasion. The
Doctor’s very first travelling companion -- his granddaughter, Susan --
is where he left her, helping to rebuild Earth for the survivors. But
danger still remains all around...
While searching for his lost companion, Sam, the Doctor finds himself in
Domain London. But it seems that Susan is now missing too, and his
efforts to find her lead to confrontation with the ambitious Lord
Haldoran, who is poised to take control of southern England through
all-out war. With the help of a sinister advisor, Haldoran’s plans are
already well advanced. Power cables have been fed down a mineshaft,
reactivating a mysterious old device of hideous power. But has the Dalek
presence on Earth really been wiped out? Or are there still traps set
for the unwary?
The Doctor learns to his cost once again that when dealing with the evil
of the Daleks, nothing can be taken at face value... | |
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Dreamstone Moon - BBC
Books / by Paul Leonard / RRP: £5.99 |
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Sam is on her own, but her distance from the Doctor
doesn’t make for a trouble-free life. Rescued from an out-of-control
spaceship, she finds herself on a tiny moon which is the only known
source of dreamstone, a mysterious crystalline substance that can
preserve your dreams -- or give you nightmares.
Pitched into the middle of a conflict between the mining company
extracting dreamstone and ecological protesters, Sam thinks it’s easy to
decide who the good guys are -- until people start dying, and the
killers seem to be the same species as some of her new friends.
Meanwhile, the Doctor has tracked Sam down, but before he can reach her
he’s co-opted by the Dreamstone Mining Company and their sinister
military advisers. Suddenly, it’s war -- and the Doctor is forced to
fight against what he believes in. He alone suspects that dreamstone
isn’t what it appears to be. But nobody’s listening - and nobody could
dream who the real enemy is... | |
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Seeing I - BBC
Books / by Jonathan Blum & Kate Orman / RRP: £5.99 |
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He has no idea why Samantha Jones ran away from
him.
Sam is homeless on the streets of the colony world of Ha'olam, trying to
face what’s just happened between her and the Doctor. He’s searching for
her, and for answers. While she struggles to survive in a strange city
centuries from home, the Doctor comes across evidence of alien
involvement in the local mega-corporation, INC - and is soon confined to
a prison that becomes a hell of his own making.
Where did INC’s mysterious eye implants really come from? What is the
company searching for in the deserts? What is hiding in the shadows,
watching their progress?
Faced with these mysteries, separated by half a world, Sam and the
Doctor each face a battle - Sam to rebuild her life, the Doctor to stay
sane. And if they find each other again, what will be left of either of
them? | |
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Placebo Effect - BBC
Books / by Gary Russell / RRP: £5.99 |
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It is 3999. An artificial planetoid, Micawber’s
World, is hosting the Intergalactic Olympic Games, and athletes from all
the worlds in the Galactic Federation are coming to take part. But when
the Doctor and Sam arrive, murders soon begin...
The Doctor finds himself drafted in to examine some bizarre new drugs
that are said to enhance the natural potential of the competing
athletes. But what is their real purpose? Why are members of the
Security Forces disappearing randomly? And just why is Chase Carrington,
manufacturer of the drug, so protective of his company’s secrets?
Watching and waiting, at the very heart of Micawber’s World, is a race
of parasites the Doctor has fought before. The Wirrrn have come to the
Milky Way from Andromeda, determined to spread their seed throughout a
whole new galaxy, and it seems to Sam that the Doctor’s hands are too
full to pay their threat full attention... | |
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Vanderdeken's Children - BBC
Books / by Christopher Bulis / RRP: £5.99 |
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A mysterious disturbance in the hyperspatial vortex
causes the Doctor and Sam to materialise the TARDIS in deep space. Here
they find that a huge derelict alien craft has become the subject of a
dangerous confrontation between starships from the rival systems of
Nimos and Emindar. At the center of the dispute is a ruthless politician
with secrets of his own -- a man who is willing to risk innocent lives
to claim the derelict for himself.
While the Doctor and Sam find themselves accompanying an expedition into
the heart of the alien vessel, strange and frightening incidents spread
terror through the watching ships. But exploring deeper into the
derelict disturbs a sinister presence and takes the expedition towards
an inevitable confrontation with fate -- and perhaps beyond the
boundaries of life itself... | |
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The Scarlet Empress - BBC
Books / by Paul Magrs / RRP: £5.99 |
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Arriving on the almost impossibly ancient planet of
Hyspero, a world where magic and danger walk hand in hand, the Doctor
and Sam are caught up in a bizarre struggle for survival.
Hyspero has been ruled for thousands of years by the Scarlet Empresses,
creatures of dangerous powers -- powers that a member of the Doctor’s
own race is keen to possess herself: the eccentric time traveller and
philanderer known only as Iris Wildthyme.
As the real reasons for Iris’s obsession become clear, the Doctor and
Sam must embark on a perilous journey across deserts, mountains, forests
and oceans. Both friends and foes are found among spirits, djinns,
alligator men and golden bears -- but in a land where the magical is
possible, is anything really as it seems? | |
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The Janus Conjunction - BBC
Books / by Trevor Baxendale / RRP: £5.99 |
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The planets Janus Prime and Menda are diametrically
opposed in orbit around a vast Red Giant star. But while Menda is rich
and fertile in the light of the sun, Janus Prime endures everlasting
night, its moon causing a permanent solar eclipse.
When the Doctor and Sam arrive on Janus Prime, they find themselves in
the middle of a war between rival humans colonising the area. The planet
is littered with ancient ruins, and the Mendans are using a mysterious
hyperspatial link left behind by the planet’s former inhabitants. But
what is its true purpose?
The Doctor and Sam must piece together a centuries-old puzzle. How can
Janus Prime’s moon weigh billions of tons more than it should? Why is
the planet riddled with deadly radiation? As the violence escalates
around them, will the time travellers survive to discover the answers? | |
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Beltempest - BBC
Books / by Jim Mortimore / RRP: £5.99 |
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The people of Bellania II see their sun, Bel,
shrouded in night for a month following an impossible triple eclipse.
When Bel is returned to them a younger, brighter, hotter star, it is the
beginning of the end for the entire solar system...
100,000 years later, the Doctor and Sam arrive on Bellania IV, where the
population is under threat as disaster looms -- immense gravitational
and dimensional disturbances are surging through this area of space.
While the time travellers attempt to help the survivors and ease the
devastation, a religious suicide-cult leader is determined to spread a
new religion through Bel’s system -- and his word may prove even more
dangerous than the terrible forces brought into being by the
catastrophic changes in the sun... | |
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The Face-Eater - BBC
Books / by Simon Messingham / RRP: £5.99 |
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The Doctor and Sam arrive on Proxima II, one of the
earliest planets colonised in humanity’s first big push into space. But
instead of a brave new world, they find a settlement rife with
superstition and unrest.
The native Proximans are inexplicably dying out. Humans too are being
killed in horrific ways, with each face being stripped bare.
Posing as investigators from Earth, the Doctor and Sam must track down
the force moving through the dark catacombs beneath Proxima City. It
seems that the superstitious whisperings of the colonists may be well
founded -- that the sinister Face-Eater from Proximan mythology has
awakened from its long sleep, to drive out all those who would defile
its world... | |
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The Taint - BBC
Books / by Michael Collier / RRP: £5.99 |
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The TARDIS has finally brought the Doctor and Sam
back to Earth -- and straight into danger.
It is 1963. Six very different people have been gathered together for
study by parapsychologist Charles Roley in his stately home outside
London. All of them claim to have been possessed by the devil, and all
have shared similar delusions -- they describe the same bizarre 'death
cave' riddled with demons.
Roley's experiments are having a gradual yet terrifying effect on his
subjects, and the Doctor and Sam discover the connections between those
tainted with the madness are more disturbing than anyone could guess.
For the Doctor, too, has seen the cave they describe -- on a dead world,
billions of years ago. | |
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Demontage - BBC
Books / by Justin Richards / RRP: £5.99 |
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The Vega Station -- a haven for gamblers, art
lovers and duty-free shoppers, the one place where the Battrulians and
their erstwhile enemies, the Canvine, meet and mix, in neutral space. A
pressure point, an explosive mixture. And just as the new President of
Battrul is about to arrive, the TARDIS crew turn up.
Fitz is in trouble. He’s accidentally got himself hired as an assassin
while trying to emulate James Bond. And he’s upset Bigdog Caruso, the
unofficial Canvine leader on Vega. Sam is in trouble. She’s become
involved with the key witness to a murder, and the witness has vanished.
The Doctor, meanwhile, has been roped in to help with investigations
into robbery, sabotage and the murder, as well as to sort out Fitz’s
problems, Sam's problems and the President's safety. He’s in his
element.
And if they should get bored, there’s a hitman on the loose, monsters
roaming the station corridors, an exhibition of art by a painter who
depicted his own death, and the opera. | |
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Revolution Man - BBC
Books / by Paul Leonard / RRP: £5.99 |
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1967: The Revolution has just started. All you need
is love -- but the ability to bend space and time helps. An entity
called the Revolution Man is writing his graffiti across the surface of
the Earth, using a drug called Om-Tsor. Trouble is, none of this was
supposed to happen. The Doctor knows that the Revolution Man isn’t for
real, that he’s part of the problem, not part of the solution. But how
is he going to convince the flower children? How is he going to convince
Sam? And he doesn’t dare tell Fitz...
1968: The Chinese People’s Army want to defeat the capitalists. Om-Tsor
is the most powerful means available, and the source is on their
doorstep. If half of India is immolated - well you can’t make an
omelette without breaking eggs...
1969: The Revolution Man has decided. Mankind is evil, not good. The
only way forward is to destroy all of it. The Doctor and Sam struggle to
find him but time is running out... | |
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Dominion - BBC
Books / by Nick Walters / RRP: £5.99 |
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When the Doctor loses both Sam and the TARDIS after
an encounter with a mysterious dimensional anomaly, he finds himself
affected in a very fundamental way, doubting his own powers and making
crucial errors of judgment.
Stranded amongst the forests and lakes of southern Sweden in the summer
of 1999, it quickly becomes clear to the Doctor and Fitz that something
unusual -- and dangerous -- is afoot. Fitz finds himself acting the hero
as the search for Sam gets them involved with investigations into
strange disappearances - and manifestations of even stranger creatures.
Events quickly spiral out of control as the Doctor and Fitz become
entangled with a secret deep beneath the forest, a secret which could
save Sam and an entire doomed alien race -- but destroy the Earth in the
process. | |
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Unnatural History - BBC
Books / by Jonathan Blum & Kate Orman / RRP: £5.99 |
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'They called it the Millennium Effect', said the
Doctor. ‘But the millennium was only beginning.’
San Francisco has changed since the start of 2000. The laws of physics
keep having acid flashbacks. There are sightings of creatures from
outside our dimensions, stranded aliens and surrealist street
performers. The city has become a mecca for those who revel in
impossible creatures -- and those who want to see them pinned down and
put away.
Sam’s past is catching up with her - a past she didn’t know she had. The
Doctor is in danger of becoming the pièce de résistance in a twisted
collection of creatures. And beneath the waters of the Bay, something
huge is waiting.
With time running out, the Doctor must choose which to sacrifice -- a
city of wonders, or the life of an old and dear friend. | |
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Autumn Mist - BBC
Books / by David A. McIntee / RRP: £5.99 |
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The Ardennes, December 1944: the Nazi forces are
making their last offensive in Europe -- a campaign which will come to
be called the Battle of the Bulge. But there is a third side to this
battle: an unknown and ancient force which seems to pay little heed to
the laws of nature.
Where do the bodies of the dead disappear to? What is the true nature of
the military experiments conducted by both sides?
The Doctor, Sam and Fitz must seek out the truth in a battlefield where
no one and nothing is quite what it seems... | |
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Interference: Book One - BBC
Books / by Lawrence Miles / RRP: £5.99 |
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Five years ago, Sam Jones was just a schoolgirl
from Shoreditch. Of course, that was before she met up with the Doctor
and found out that her entire life had been stage-managed by a
time-travelling voodoo cult. Funny how things turn out, isn’t it?
Now Sam’s back in her own time, fighting the good fight in a world of
political treachery, international subterfuge, and good old-fashioned
depravity. But she’s about to learn the first great truth of the
universe: that however corrupt and amoral your own race might be,
there’s always someone in the galaxy who can make you look like a
beginner.
Ms Jones has just become a minor player in a million-year-old power
struggle... and as it happens, so has the Doctor.
Both of him, actually. | |
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Interference: Book Two - BBC
Books / by Lawrence Miles / RRP: £5.99 |
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They call it the Dead Frontier. It’s as far from
home as the human race ever went, the planet where mankind dumped the
waste of its thousand-year empire and left its culture out in the sun to
rot.
But while one Doctor faces both his past and his future on the Frontier,
another finds himself on Earth in 1996, where the seeds of the empire
are only just being sown. The past is meeting the present, cause is
meeting effect, and the TARDIS crew is about to be caught in the
crossfire.
The Third Doctor. The Eighth Doctor. Sam. Fitz. Sarah Jane Smith. Soon,
one of them will be dead; one of them will belong to the enemy; and one
of them will be something less than human... | |
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The Blue Angel - BBC
Books / by Paul Magrs & Jeremy Hoad / RRP: £5.99 |
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This is a story about Winter...
As the Doctor becomes involved in affairs aboard the Federation Starship
Nepotist, his old friend Iris Wildthyme is rescuing old ladies who are
being attacked by savage owls in a shopping mall.
And, in a cat’s cradle of interdimensional Corridors lies the Valcean
City of Glass, whose King Dedalus awaits the return of his Angel son and
broods over the oncoming war... | |
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The Taking of Planet 5 - BBC
Books / by Simon Bucher-Jones & Mark Clapham / RRP: £5.99 |
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Twelve million years ago, a war touched the Earth
briefly. Now, in Antarctica, an archaeological team has discovered the
detritus of the conflict. And it’s alive.
Twelve million years ago, a creature evolved that was capable of
consuming all life in the universe. Now someone, or something, is
desperate enough to want to revive it. Outside the ordered universe,
things move. They’re hungry. And something has given them the scent of
our space/time.
In the far future, the Doctor has learnt of the war and feels he must
intervene -- but it’s more than just a local conflict of interest. One
of the groups of combatants is from his own future, and the other has
never, ever, existed. | |
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Frontier Worlds - BBC Books / by
Peter Anghelides / RRP: £5.99 |
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What strange attraction lures people to the planet
Drebnar? When the TARDIS is dragged there, the Doctor determines to find
out why.
He discovers that scientists from the mysterious Frontier Worlds
Corporation have set up a base on the planet, and are trying to blur the
distinction between people and plants. The TARDIS crew plan to prevent a
biological catastrophe -- but their plan goes wrong all too soon.
Compassion finds her undercover work so engrossing she risks losing her
detachment. Fitz seems too distracted by the local population to keep
his eye on Compassion. So when the Doctor gets trapped in a freezing
wilderness, who can stop him falling victim to a lethal experiment in
genetic modification?
For something else has been lured to Drebnar, something that Frontier
Worlds Corporation will ruthlessly exploit without care for the
consequences -- an ancient organism which threatens to snuff out
Drebnar’s solar system. | |
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Parallel 59 - BBC Books / by
Natalie Dallaire & Stephen Cole / RRP: £5.99 |
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Fleeing a doomed space station in tiny life
capsules, the Doctor and Compassion find themselves prisoners of
Parallel 59, a militaristic power on the planet Skale. Meanwhile Fitz
finds himself apparently safe in Mechta, a colony for convalescents.
A space race is in full swing on Skale, with each of the planet’s many
blocs desperate to be first to reach the stars. If the Doctor’s
knowledge helps Parallel 59 to succeed, the consequences for the rest of
the world could be devastating.
But Fitz knows nothing of his friends’ predicament. Enjoying his new
life, he’s not even sure he wants to be rescued -- which is a good
thing.
Because the Doctor has no intention of going to Mechta. He’s decreed
that Fitz’s new-found utopia must be totally destroyed. | |
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The Shadows of Avalon - BBC Books / by
Paul Cornell / RRP: £5.99 |
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The Brigadier’s wife is dead. A terrible accident.
Grieving, he searches for death, and finds his way to Avalon, the
other-dimensional kingdom of the Catuvelauni.
The Doctor is also in Avalon, marooned. He’s lost his companions, his
TARDIS... and his hope for the future.
Now it seems they’ll have to make a new life for themselves with the
Celts who live in the Dreamlands. Perhaps even help in the Celts’
negotiations with the Unseelie, the sinister original inhabitants of
Avalon, who live far to the North. But then a gateway opens between
Earth and Avalon. The British Army arrives in force. And the Brigadier
negotiates a treaty that will lead to war in the Land of Dreams.
With fearsome dragons duelling jet fighters, vicious Gallifreyan agents
causing havoc, and Compassion fighting against her ultimate fate, can
the Doctor save the world, his best friend, and himself? | |
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The Fall of Yquatine - BBC Books / by
Nick Walters / RRP: £5.99 |
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Yquatine -- cultural, political and economic centre
of the Minerva System. A planet with a month to live.
Fitz knows. He was there when Yquatine fell. Now, trapped a month in the
past, he doesn’t know if the Doctor survived. He doesn’t know where
Compassion has gone. He doesn’t know who the invaders will be. But he
does know the date and time when he will die with the millions of
others.
The Doctor teams up with Lou Lombardo -- part-time dodgy temporal gadget
salesman and full-time pie seller. Compassion is lost in time and space.
And Fitz is living out his final days working in a seedy cocktail bar,
where he meets Arielle, the President’s runaway girlfriend. But is she
really the best person to shack up with?
As the Doctor tries to talk sense into the politicians and soldiers, and
Compassion tries to avert the war, Fitz is about to discover that things
can only get worse. | |
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Cold Heart - BBC Books / by
Trevor Baxendale / RRP: £5.99 |
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The Doctor, Fitz and Compassion arrive on the
planet Eskon -- a strange world of ice and fire. Far beneath the
planet’s burning surface are vast lakes frozen solid by the glacial
subterranean temperature.
But the civilised community that relies on the ice reservoirs for its
survival has more to worry about than a shortage of water. The hideous
slimers -- degenerate mutations in the population -- are growing more
hostile by the moment, and their fanatical leader will stop at nothing
to exact revenge against those in authority. But what connects the
slimers to the unknown horror that lurks deep beneath the ice? And what
is the terrible truth that the city leaders will do anything to conceal?
To unearth the ugliest secrets of Eskon, the TARDIS crew becomes
involved in a desperate conflict. While Fitz is embroiled in the deadly
plans of the slimers, the Doctor and Compassion must lead a danger-frought
subterranean expedition to prevent a disaster that could destroy the
very essence of Eskon... its cold heart. | |
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The Space Age - BBC Books / by
Steve Lyons / RRP: £5.99 |
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This is the city: a technological paradise built by
an advanced race. Its glittering towers reach proudly for the stars, and
its spires are looped by elevated roadways.
The people that lived here were enlightened and contented. They
travelled in bubble-topped saucer cars, along moving pavements or in
anti-gravity tubes. Obedient robots tended to their every whim. Disease,
war, famine and pollution had been eradicated. Food machines synthesised
all essential nutrients into pill form, and personal rocket ships
brought the solar system within reach. The people of the city befriended
Venusians and Martians alike.
The city is self-cleansing. Its systems harness solar power and static
electricity. Its buildings are constructed from a metal that will never
rust or tarnish. It will stand forever as a monument to the achievements
of the human race. This is Earth. The year is 2000 AD. This is your
future.
Welcome to the Space Age. | |
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The Banquo Legacy - BBC Books / by
Andy Lane & Justin Richards / RRP: £5.99 |
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Banquo Manor -- scene of a gruesome murder a
hundred years ago. Now history is about to repeat itself.
1898 -- the age of advancement, of electricity, of technology. Scientist
Richard Harries is preparing to push the boundaries of science still
further, into a new area: the science of the mind. Pieced together at
last from the accounts of solicitor John Hopkinson and Inspector Ian
Stratford of Scotland Yard, the full story of Banquo Manor can now be
told.
Or can it? Even Hopkinson and Stratford don’t know the truth about the
mysterious Doctor Friedlander and his associate Herr Kreiner -- noted
forensic scientists from Germany who have come to witness the
experiment. And for the Doctor, time is literally running out. He knows
that Compassion is dying. He’s aware that he has lost his own ability to
regenerate. He’s worried by Fitz’s fake German accent. And he’s
desperate to uncover the Time Lord agent who has him trapped. | |
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The Ancestor Cell - BBC Books / by
Peter Anghelides & Stephen Cole / RRP: £5.99 |
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The Doctor's not the man he was. But what has he
become? An old enemy -- Faction Paradox, a cult of time-travelling
voodoo terrorists -- is finally making him one of its own. These rebels
have a mission for him, one that will deliver him into the hands of his
own people, who have decreed that he must die. Except now, it seems, the
Time Lords have a mission for him too...
A gargantuan structure, hewn from solid bone, has appeared in the skies
over Gallifrey. Its origin and purpose are unknown, but its powers
threaten to tear apart the web of time and the universe with it. Only
the Doctor can get inside... but soon he will learn that nothing is safe
and nothing sacred.
Shot by both sides, confronted by past sins and future crimes, the
Doctor finds himself a prisoner of his own actions. With options finally
running out, he must face his most crushing defeat or take one last,
desperate chance for salvation... | |
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The Burning - BBC Books / by Justin
Richards / RRP: £5.99 |
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The late nineteenth century -- the age of reason,
of enlightenment, of industrialisation. Britain is the workshop of the
world, the centre of the Empire.
Progress has left Middletown behind. The tin mine is worked out, jobs
are scarce, and a crack has opened across the moors that the locals
believe reaches into the depths of Hell itself. But things are changing:
Lord Urton is preparing to reopen the mine; the Society for Psychical
Research is interested in the fissure; Roger Nepath and his sister are
exhibiting their collection of mystic Eastern artefacts. People are
dying. Then a stranger arrives, walking out of the wilderness: a man
with no name, no history.
Only one man can unravel the mysteries; only one man can begin to
understand the forces that are gathering; only one man can hope to fight
against them. And only one man knows that this is just the beginning of
the end of the world. Only one man can stop The Burning. | |
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Casualties of War - BBC Books / by
Steve Emmerson / RRP: £5.99 |
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1918. The world is at war. A terrible raging
conflict that has left no one untouched.
In the North Yorkshire village of Hawkswick, it seems that the dead
won’t stay down. There are reports of horrifically wounded soldiers on
manoeuvres in the night. Pets have gone missing, and now livestock is
found slaughtered in the fields.
Suspicion naturally falls on nearby Hawkswick Hall, a psychiatric
hospital for shell-shocked soldiers, where Private Daniel Corey senses a
gathering evil.
As events escalate, a stranger arrives on the scene. Can this Man from
the Ministry solve the mystery of Hawkswick? And can Hawkswick solve the
mystery that is this Man from the Ministry? | |
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The Turing Test - BBC Books / by
Paul Leonard / RRP: £5.99 |
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The Second World War is drawing to a close. Alan
Turing, the code-breaker who has been critical to the allied war effort,
is called in to break a mysterious new cypher. It’s coming from Germany,
and everyone assumes it is German -- everyone except Turing's new
friend, the Doctor, indeed it seems the Doctor knows too much about the
code and the code-makers -- and when people start to die, even Turing
wonders it the Doctor is the one to blame.
Graham Greene, novelist and spymaster, has also encountered the Doctor,
and thinks he’s a rum enough chap, but in a remote African village he
has encountered something far stranger.
To find out the truth, they must all cross the front line and travel
through occupied Germany -- right into the firing line of the bloodiest
war in history. What they find there has no human explanation -- and
only the Doctor has the answers. Or maybe, they’re just more
questions... | |
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Endgame - BBC Books / by
Terrance Dicks / RRP: £5.99 |
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Winning is everything -- and nothing. Losing is
nothing -- and everything. All that matters is the game.
The Players have decided on an Endgame. Play ends only when one side has
been annihilated -- even if the entire planet is destroyed in the
process. They weren’t expecting the Doctor to be one of the pieces --
and neither was he. He really doesn’t want to get involved.
The Doctor doesn’t know who he is -- but he’s fast ceasing to care.
Caught up in ennui, nothing seems to matter to him any more. He has no
interest in the Cold War, in spies or double agents or secret documents.
But he’s soon forced to take an active role. Because as far as the
authorities are concerned, the Doctor is The Third Man... | |
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Father Time - BBC Books / by
Lance Parkin / RRP: £5.99 |
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‘I love her,’ the Doctor said. ‘Of course you do,
she’s your daughter.’
Earth in the nineteen-eighties is a battleground. Rival alien factions
have travelled from the far future to pursue their vendetta.
With UFOs filling the skies, a giant robot stalking the Derbyshire
hills, and alien hunters searching for the mysterious Last One, the
Doctor is the only man who can protect the innocents caught in the
crossfire. But old scores are being settled, the fate of a Galactic
Empire is at stake, and, against his will, the Doctor is drawn into a
decade-long war that will strike at those he holds most dear. The Doctor
has lost his memory, his friends, his past and his TARDIS.
All he has now is the love of his daughter. But will even that be taken
from him? | |
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Escape Velocity - BBC Books / by
Colin Brake / RRP: £5.99 |
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‘You know me then?’ asked the Doctor, a little
tentatively. ‘You’re the Doctor,’ replied Fitz, a slight frown worming
its way on to his forehead. ‘Yes, yes, yes, the Doctor, of course I am.’
The Doctor smiled, genuinely pleased to see a familiar face, even if for
the moment he couldn’t quite put a name to it. ‘But, er, Doctor who?’ he
added, hopefully.
The Doctor and Fitz are back together at last, but the Doctor is not the
man he once was -- which is a shame, because Fitz has promised Anji
Kapoor that his old friend is Anji’s best hope of finding her
alien-abducted boyfriend, Dave. Soon the Doctor, Fitz and Anji find
themselves involved in a desperate contest between Pierre-Yves Dudoin
and Arthur Tyler the Third, each determined to be the first privately
funded man in space. But not all the parties are playing fairly: members
of an alien race called the Kulan are helping the Frenchman - and at the
far reaches of the Solar System their battle fleet awaits... Can the
Doctor find Dave before the alien contact proves fatal? Who are the
secret agents keeping tabs on the rival Space Race teams? Will the
Doctor’s mysterious blue box finally reveal its purpose? And does the
Doctor, now truly a man without a past, have what it takes to stop the
Kulan Invasion of Earth...? | |
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EarthWorld - BBC Books / by
Jacqueline Rayner / RRP: £5.99 |
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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 he really knew,
surely he would 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... | |
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Vanishing Point - BBC Books / by
Stephen Cole / RRP: £5.99 |
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Imagine a world where death has meaning, where God
exists and faith is untested. Where people die with the purpose of their
lives made clear to them in blissful understanding. Such a world exists,
hidden on the far side of the universe where a battered blue police box
has just faded into being...
But unknown to the populace, unknown even to the Creator, an alien evil
has stalked this world for hundreds of years. When the Doctor, Fitz and
Anji arrive, they soon find themselves embroiled in the alien’s final,
desperate plans for this planet -- and in the hunt for a murderer who
cannot possibly exist...
Unnatural deaths are being visited on the people. Campaigns of terror
threaten to tear this world apart. It seems that the prophecy of the
Vanishing Point where all life shall meet all death under the Creator’s
aegis is coming to pass. For when God exists, prophecy, however
fantastic or deadly, is fact. | |
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Eater of Wasps - BBC Books / by
Trevor Baxendale / RRP: £5.99 |
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The TARDIS lands in the sleepy English village of
Marpling, as calm and peaceful as any other village in the 1930s. Or so
it would seem at first glance. But the village is about to get a rude
awakening.
The Doctor and his friends discover they aren’t the only time-travellers
in the area: a crack commando team is also prowling the Wiltshire
countryside, charged with the task of recovering an appallingly
dangerous artefact from the far future -- and they have orders to
destroy the entire area, should anything go wrong. And then there are
the wasps... mutant killers bringing terror and death in equal measure.
What is their purpose? How can they be stopped? And who will be their
next victim?
In the race to stop the horror that has been unleashed, the Doctor must
outwit both the temporal hit squad, who want him out of the way, and the
local police -- who want him for murder. | |
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The Year of Intelligent Tigers - BBC Books / by
Kate Orman / RRP: £5.99 |
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‘Doctor!’ said Anji. This couldn’t be happening, he
couldn’t just walk out on them! ‘Look, give them a chance, they’re
frightened, they’re only --’
‘Human?’ The Doctor took a deep breath, as though to stop himself from
saying anything more. ‘Now, stay!’
The weather is going to hell. The tigers are coming to town. And the
Doctor has taken his violin and vanished. The island world of Hitchemus
is home to a colony of musicians and seemingly harmless alien animals.
When the storms and the tigers break loose, the Doctor tries to protect
the humans -- but the humans don’t want him. When he ventures into the
wilderness in search of the tigers’ secrets, Fitz and Anji find
themselves on their own, trying to prevent a war.
With both sides eager for blood, and hurricanes on the horizon, the
Doctor must decide whether this time he’s on the side of the human race. | |
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The Slow Empire - BBC Books / by
Dave Stone / RRP: £5.99 |
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Enter, with the Doctor, Anji and Fitz, an Empire
where the laws of physics are quite preposterous -- nothing can travel
faster than the speed of light and time travel is impossible.
A thousand worlds, each believing they are the Centre, each under a
malign control of which they themselves are completely unaware.
As the only beings able to travel between the worlds instantaneously,
the Doctor and his friends must piece together the Imperial puzzle and
decide what should be done. The soldiers of the Ambassadorial Corps are
always, somehow, hard on their heels. Their own minds are busily
fragmenting under metatemporal stresses. And their only allies are a man
who might not be quite what he seems (and says so at great length) and a
creature we shall merely call... the Collector. | |
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Dark Progeny - BBC Books / by
Steve Emmerson / RRP: £5.99 |
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The planet Ceres Alpha is being ‘developed’. The
surface crawls with gigantic city-machines that are churning and
rebuilding the world, seeding it with tomorrow’s vegetation so that
full-scale colonisation can follow.
But Gaskill Tyran, head of the biosphere-engineering WorldCorp, is
finding things more difficult than he would like. The whole project
seems to be falling apart under an ever-increasing burden of mysteries.
Why has a batch of strange babies been born with telekinetic powers? Why
won’t the terraforming go according to plan? Why are there more and more
problems with the comp systems that run the city-machines? It seems
there may be conspirators. A rival Corporation with its eye on the
contract for Ceres Alpha. And Tyran’s patience is now wearing thin.
But then he gets his answer. A mysterious infiltrator known only as the
Doctor. | |
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The City of the Dead - BBC Books / by
Lloyd Rose / RRP: £5.99 |
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“Nothing can get into the TARDIS,” the Doctor
whispered. Then he realized that Nothing had.
New Orleans, the early 21st century. A dealer in morbid artifacts has
been murdered. A charm carved from human bone is missing. An old
plantation, miles from any water, has been destroyed by a tidal wave.
Anji goes dancing. Fitz goes grave-robbing. The Doctor attracts the
interest of a homicide detective and the enmity of a would-be magician.
He wants to find out the secret of the redneck thief and his blind wife.
He’d like to help the crippled curator of a museum of magic. He’s trying
to refuse politely the request of a crazy young artist that he pose
naked with the man’s wife.
Most of all, he needs to figure out what all of them have to do with the
Void that is hunting him down. Before it catches him. | |
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Grimm Reality - BBC Books / by
Simon Bucher-Jones & Kelly Hale / RRP: £5.99 |
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There is a world where wishes can come true. Where
any simpleton can become a king and any scullery maid might be a
princess in disguise. Kindness and virtue are rewarded, and the wicked
are made to dance in red-hot shoes until they die. But a witch’s oven
will cook both the virtuous and the wicked alike, and many a frog-prince
is crushed beneath the wheels of a cart before he gets that magic kiss.
This world has its own rules and it doesn’t care that a certain Doctor
Know-All and his friends don’t know them.
Now other outsiders have come to the world -- traders from the stars
seeking the treasures that fell from the rip in the sky. There are
riddles to be solved, contests to win, flax to spin. The world to
survive.
But the World of Wishes is itself in danger from a race of beings with
only one wish. And there is a Princess asleep, and a beast awake -- and
Giants. | |
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The Adventuress of Henrietta Street - BBC Books / by
Lawrence Miles / RRP: £5.99 |
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On February 9, 1783, a funeral was held in the
tunnels at the dead heart of London. It was the funeral of a warrior and
a conjurer, a paladin and an oracle, the last of an ancient breed who'd
once stood between the Earth and the bloodiest of its nightmares.
Her name was Scarlette. Part courtesan, part sorceress, this is her
history: the part she played in the Siege of Henrietta Street, and the
sacrifice she made in the defence of her world. In the year leading up
to that funeral, something raw and primal ate its way through human
society, from the streets of pre-Revolutionary Paris to the slave-states
of America. Something that only the eighteenth century could have
summoned, and against which the only line of defence was a bordello in
Covent Garden.
And then there was Scarlette's accomplice, the 'elemental champion' who
stood alongside her in the final battle. The one they called the Doctor. | |
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Mad Dogs and Englishmen - BBC Books / by
Paul Magrs / RRP: £5.99 |
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‘Grrrrr.’ - The greatest book ever written.
Professor Reginald Tyler’s The True History of Planets was a
twentieth-century classic; an epic of dwarves and swords and wizardry.
And definitely no poodles. Or at least there weren’t when the Doctor
read it. Now it tells the true tale of how the Queen of the poodles was
overthrown; it’s been made into a hit movie, and it’s going to cause a
bloodbath on the Dog World -- unless the Doctor, Fitz and Anji (and
assorted friends) can sort it all out.
The Doctor infiltrates the Smudgelings, Tyler’s elite Cambridge writing
set of the early twentieth century; Fitz falls for flamboyant torch
singer Brenda Soobie in sixties Las Vegas, and Anji experiences some
very special effects in seventies Hollywood. Their intention is to
prevent the movie from ever being made. But there is a shadowy figure
present in all three time zones who is just as determined to see it
completed... so the poodle revolution can begin. | |
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Hope - BBC Books / by
Mark Clapham / RRP: £5.99 |
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In the far future, the city of Hope isn’t a place
for the weak.
The air is thick with fog. The sea burns. Law and order are a thing of
the past. Headless corpses are being found at the edge of the city, and
the militia can’t find the killer. Members of a deranged cult mutilate
themselves while plotting the deaths of their enemies.
Even the Doctor can’t see any possibility of redemption for this cursed
place. All he wants to do is leave, but to do so he needs the TARDIS --
and the TARDIS is lost in the depths of a toxic sea. When the most
powerful man on the planet offers to retrieve the TARDIS -- for a price
-- the Doctor has no choice but to accept.
But while the Doctor is hunting a killer, another offer is being made --
one which could tear the Doctor and his companions apart... | |
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Anachrophbia - BBC Books / by
Jonathan Morris / RRP: £5.99 |
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Imagine a war. A war that has lasted centuries, a
war which has transformed an entire planet into a desolate No Man’s
Land. A war where time itself is being used as a weapon. You can create
zones of decelerated time and bring the enemy troops to a standstill.
You can create storms of accelerated time and reduce the opposition to
dust in a matter of seconds.
But now the war has reached a stalemate. Neither the Plutocrats nor the
Defaulters have made any gains for over a hundred years. The Doctor,
Fitz and Anji arrive at Isolation Station Forty, a military research
establishment on the verge of a breakthrough. A breakthrough which will
change the entire course of the war.
They have found a way to send soldiers back in time. But time travel is
a primitive, unpredictable and dangerous business. And not without its
own sinister side effects... | |
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Trading Futures - BBC Books / by
Lance Parkin / RRP: £5.99 |
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‘Welcome to the future.’
The early decades of the twenty-first century. All the wars have been
won. There are no rogue states. The secret services of the world keep
the planet electronically monitored, safe from all threat. There is no
one left for the United States and the Eurozone to fight. Except each
other.
A mysterious time traveller offers a better future -- he has a time
machine, and with it, humanity could reach the next stage of evolution,
they could share its secrets and become the new Lords of Time...
...either that, or someone could keep the technology for themselves, and
use it to fight the ultimate war. | |
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The Book of the Still - BBC Books / by
Paul Ebbs / RRP: £5.99 |
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The Unnoticed are bound to keep themselves isolated
from all history, or face a complete collapse from existence.
The Book of the Still is a lifeline for stranded time travellers --
write your location, sign your name and be instantly rescued. When the
Unnoticed learn that within the book someone has revealed both their
existence and whereabouts they are forced into murderous intercession to
find it.
Fitz knows where it is, but then he’s the one who stole it. Carmodi,
addicted to the energies trapped in frequent time travellers, also knows
where it is. But she’s the one who’s stolen Fitz. Anji, alone on a
doomed planet, trying to find evidence of a race that has never had the
decency to exist, doesn’t know where anybody is.
Embroiled in the deadly chase, the Doctor is starting to worry about how
many people he can keep alive along the way... | |
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The Crooked World - BBC Books / by
Steve Lyons / RRP: £5.99 |
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The people of the Crooked World lead an idyllic
existence.
Take Streaky Bacon, for example. This jovial farmer wants nothing more
from life than a huge blunderbuss, with which he can blast away at his
crop-stealing nemesis. And then there's Angel Falls, a racing driver
with a string of victories to her name. Sure, her trusted guardian might
occasionally put on a mask and menace her for her prize money, but
that's just life, right? And for Jasper the cat, nothing could be more
pleasant than a nice, long nap in his kitchen -- so long as that darn
mouse doesn't jam his tail into the plug socket again.
But somebody is about to shatter all those lives. Somebody is about to
change everything -- and it's possible that no one on the Crooked World
will ever be happy again. The Doctor's TARDIS is about to arrive. And
when it does... That's all folks! | |
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History 101 - BBC Books / by
Mags L. Halliday / RRP: £5.99 |
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‘Remarkable. I’m surprised at how much has been
uncovered.’ — Anji Kapoor
Spain, 1937. In April, the small town of Guernica was razed to the
ground in a firestorm that claimed a thousand or more lives. In May,
Barcelona exploded into fierce street fighting as different political
factions fought for control of the city. Both events have been the
subject of fierce propagandist claims by all sides, but this book
examines new evidence to suggest that the two events are more closely
linked than previously thought.
Who were the shadowy figures working behind the scenes? Who were ‘the
Doctor’, ‘Anji’ and ‘Fitz’ and what were their objectives? And were
there really monsters roaming the streets? Presented in the form of a
novel, History 101 tries to discover if the absolute truth can ever be
revealed. It should be read as part of the ongoing ‘Doctor Who: Eighth
Doctor’ history course. | |
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Camera Obscura - BBC Books / by
Lloyd Rose / RRP: £5.99 |
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The Doctor sat alone and listened to the beat of
his remaining heart. He had never got used to it. He never would. The
single sound where a double should be. What was this new code hammering
through his body? What did it mean? Mortal. No, he’d always known he
could die. Not mortal. Damaged. Crippled. Through his shirt, his fingers
sought the thick ridge of his scar. Human...
The Doctor’s second heart was taken from his body -- for his own good,
he was told. Removed by his sometime ally, sometime rival, the
mysterious time-traveller Sabbath. Now, as a new danger menaces reality,
the Doctor finds himself working with Sabbath again. From a seance in
Victorian London to a wild pursuit on Dartmoor, the Doctor and his
companions work frantically to unravel the mystery of this latest threat
to Time... Before Time itself unravels. | |
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Time Zero - BBC Books / by
Justin Richards / RRP: £5.99 |
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‘It doesn’t take the creation of a whole new
universe just to kill a cat.’
With Fitz gone to his certain death and Anji back at work in the City,
the Doctor is once more alone. But he has a lot to keep him occupied.
At the Naryshkin Institute in Siberia, scientists are busily at work in
a haunted castle. Over a century earlier, creatures from a prehistory
that never happened attack a geological expedition. Pages from the lost
expedition’s journal are put on display at the British Museum, and a US
spy plane suffers a mysterious fate. Deep under the snowy landscape of
Siberia the key to it all remains trapped in the ice.
Only the Doctor can see that these events are all related. But he isn’t
the only person involved. Why is Colonel Hartford so interested in the
Institute? Who is the mysterious millionaire who is after the journal?
How is the Grand Duchess, descendent of the last Tsar, involved?
Soon the Doctor is caught up in a plot that reaches back to the creation
of the Universe. And beyond... ...to Time Zero. | |
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The Infinity Race - BBC Books / by
Simon Messingham / RRP: £5.99 |
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Welcome to the Selonart Trans-Global Regatta -- The
ultimate sporting event in the universe!
The Doctor is in trouble. He has his own race to win. Stuck in a
parallel dimension, pursuing the mysterious Sabbath, he must unravel a
complex plot in which he himself may be a pawn.
Following the only lead, the TARDIS arrives on Selonart -- a planet
famed for the unique, friction-nullifying light water that covers its
surface. A water that propels vast, technological yachts across its
waves at inconceivable speeds. All in all, an indulgent, boastful
demonstration of power by Earth’s ruthless multi-stellar corporations.
Is Sabbath’s goal to win the race? Who is Bloom, the enigmatic Selonart
native?
As the danger escalates, the Doctor realises that he is being manoeuvred
into engineering his own downfall. Is it already too late for him? | |
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The Domino Effect - BBC Books / by
David Bishop / RRP: £5.99 |
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The TARDIS lands in the Scottish capital,
Edinburgh, during Easter 2003. The city is almost at a standstill, its
public services close to collapse and its people terrorised by a bombing
campaign.
Within hours one of the Doctor’s friends is caught in a deadly
explosion, while another appears on television confessing to the murder
of twelve people. The TARDIS is stolen by forces intent on learning its
secrets. When the Doctor tries to investigate, his efforts are hampered
by crippling chest pains. Someone is manipulating events to suppress
humanity’s development — but how and why? The trail leads to London
where a cabal pushes the world ever closer to catastrophe. Who is the
prisoner being held in the Tower of London? Could he or she hold the key
to saving mankind?
The Doctor must choose between saving his friends or saving Earth in the
past, present and future. But the closer he gets to the truth, the worse
his condition becomes... | |
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Reckless Engineering - BBC Books / by
Nick Walters / RRP: £5.99 |
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"What right do you have to wipe out a whole
reality?”
The history of the planet Earth has become splintered, each splinter
vying to become the prime reality. But there can only be one true
history.
The Doctor has a plan to ensure that the correct version of history
prevails -- a plan that involves breaking every law of Time. But with
the vortex itself on the brink of total collapse, what do mere laws
matter?
From the Bristol riots of 1831, to the ruins of the city in 2003, from a
chance encounter between a frustrated poet and Isambard Kingdom Brunel,
to a plan to save the human race, the stakes are raised ever higher --
until reality itself is threatened. | |
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The Last Resort - BBC Books / by
Paul Leonard / RRP: £5.99 |
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'I think time and space just fell apart.’
Anji isn’t sure, but then it’s hard to be sure of anything now. Good
Times Inc. promised a new tourist experience, with hotels in every major
period of human history -- but that kind of arrogance comes with a
price, and it’s a price the Doctor doesn’t want to pay.
As aliens conquer an alternative Earth, Anji and Fitz race to find out
how to stop Good Times without stopping time itself. But they find that
events are out of control -- they can’t even save each other. And when
the Doctor tries to help, it gets far worse. At the Last Resort, only
Sabbath can save the day. And then the price gets even higher... | |
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Timeless - BBC Books / by
Stephen Cole / RRP: £5.99 |
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The fuse has been lit. Reality has been blown
apart, and the barriers that shield our universe from the endless others
running parallel have shattered with it. The only chance the Doctor has
of saving the multiverse from total collapse is if he can get back to
Earth -- where the damage was first done -- and put things right.
With time running out, the Doctor finally understands why ‘our’ universe
is unique. In proving it, he nearly destroys the TARDIS and all aboard
-- and becomes involved with the machinations of the mysterious Timeless
organisation. They can fix your wildest dreams, get away with murder and
bring a whole new meaning to the idea of victimless crime.
Soon, Fitz and Trix are married, Anji’s become a mum, and an innocent
man is marked for the most important death in the universe’s long
history. The reasons why force the Doctor into a deadly showdown in a
killing ground spawned before time and space began. | |
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Emotional Chemistry - BBC Books / by
Simon A. Forward / RRP: £5.99 |
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"Love! Surely one of the most destructive forces in
the universe. There’s nothing a man -- or woman -- won’t do for true
love.”
1812. The Vishenkov household, along with the rest of Moscow, faces the
advance of Napoleon Bonaparte. At its heart is the radiant Dusha, a
source of strength and inspiration -- and more besides -- for them all.
Captain Victor Padorin, heroic Hussar and family friend, meanwhile, acts
like a man possessed -- by the Devil. 2024. Fitz is under interrogation
regarding a burglary and fire at the Kremlin. The Doctor has disappeared
in the flames. Colonel Bugayev is investigating a spate of antique
thefts, centred in Moscow, on top of which he now has a time-travel
mystery to unravel.
5000. Lord General Razum Kinzhal is preparing to set in motion the
closing stages of a world war. More than the enemy, his fellow generals
of the Icelandic Alliance fear what such a man might do in peacetime.
What can possibly bridge these disparate events in time? Love will find
a way. But the Doctor must find a better alternative. Before love sets
the world on fire. | |
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Sometime Never... - BBC Books / by
Justin Richards / RRP: £5.99 |
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This Week: A hideous, misshapen creature releases a
butterfly. Next Week: The consequences of this simple action ensure that
history follows its predicted path...
Sometime: In the swirling maelstrom of the Time Vortex, The Council of
Eight map out every moment in history and take drastic measures to
ensure it follows their predictions. But there is one elemental force
that defies their prediction, that fails to adhere to the laws of time
and space... A rogue element that could destroy their plans merely by
existing.
Already events are mapped out and defined. Already the pieces of the
trap are in place. The Council of Eight know when Sabbath will betray
them. They know when Fitz will survive the horrors in the Institute of
Anthropology. They know when Trix will come to his aid. They know when
the Doctor will finally realise the truth.
They know that this will be: Never. | |
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Halflife - BBC Books / by
Mark Michalowski / RRP: £5.99 |
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‘To lose one set of memories may be regarded as a
misfortune. To lose two smacks of carelessness.’
The Terran colony world of Espero seems the unlikely source of a
sophisticated distress call. And the Doctor, Fitz and Trix are not the
only ones responding to it.
While Fitz consorts with royalty, the Doctor’s on the run with a
16-year-old girl, and Trix meets a small boy with a dark secret.
In a race for the minds and souls of an entire planet, the Doctor and
Trix are offered temptations that may change them forever.
At least one of them will be unable to resist. | |
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The Tomorrow Windows - BBC Books / by
Jonathan Morris / RRP: £5.99 |
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There’s a new exhibition at Tate Modern -- ‘The
Tomorrow Windows’.
The concept is simple: look through a Tomorrow Window and you’ll see
into the future. You’ll get ‘The Gist of Things to Come’. According to
the press pack, The Tomorrow Windows exhibition will bring about an end
to war and suffering. Which is why someone decides to blow it up.
Investigating this act of wanton vandalism, the Doctor, Fitz and Trix
visit an Astral Flower, the show-world of Utopia and Gadrahadradon --
the most haunted planet in the galaxy. They face the sinister Ceccecs,
the gratuitously violent Vorshagg, the miniscule Micron and the
enigmatic Poozle. And they encounter the doomsday monks of Shardybarn,
the warmongers of Valuensis, the politicians of Minuea and the killer
cars of Estebol.
They also spend about half an hour in Lewisham. | |
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The Sleep of Reason - BBC Books / by
Martin Day / RRP: £5.99 |
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The near future: a man in a psychiatric hospital
claims to be an alien time-traveller called ‘the Doctor’. He once
adventured across countless galaxies, fighting evil.
The past: an asylum struggles to change Victorian attitudes to the
mentally ill. It catches fire in mysterious circumstances.
Now: a young woman takes an overdose and slips into a coma. She dreams
of Death falling like a shroud over a benighted gothic building.
Caroline ‘Laska’ Darnell is admitted to the Retreat after her latest
suicide attempt. To her horror, she recognises the medical centre from
recent nightmares of an old building haunted by a ghostly dog with
glowing eyes. She knows that something is very wrong with the institute.
Something, revelling in madness, is growing ever stronger. The
mysterious Dr Smith is fascinated by Laska’s waking dreams and prophetic
nightmares. But if Laska is unable to trust her own perceptions, can she
trust Dr Smith? And, all the while, the long-dead hound draws near... | |
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The Deadstone Memorial - BBC Books / by
Trevor Baxendale / RRP: £5.99 |
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There is no such thing as a good night.
You may think you can hide away in dreams. Safely tucked up in bed,
nothing can touch you. But, as every child knows, there are bad dreams.
And bad dreams are where the monsters are. The Doctor knows all about
monsters. And he knows that sometimes they can still be there when you
wake up. And when the horror is more than just a memory, there is
nowhere to hide. Even here, today, tonight... in the most ordinary of
homes, and against the most ordinary people, the terror will strike.
A young boy will suffer terrifying visions... ...and his family will
encounter a deathless horror.
Only the Doctor can help -- but first, he must uncover the fearsome
secret of the Deadstone Memorial. | |
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To the Slaughter - BBC Books / by
Stephen Cole / RRP: £5.99 |
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The solar system is being spring-cleaned, to
improve its feng shui and attract big business back to the
long-abandoned seat of Earth’s empire. Celebrity decoratiste Aristotle
Halcyon is heading the campaign of controlled demolition. Having swept
away the Asteroid Belt and the Oort Cloud, he now plans to make Jupiter
more aesthetically pleasing by removing scores of ‘unnecessary’ moons.
But the ancient satellites hold deadly secrets, as the Doctor, Fitz and
Trix soon discover. With eco-terrorists planning sabotage, corrupt
officials lining their own pockets and sinister forces acting on their
own agendas, only the Doctor sees that millions of innocents have been
set on the fast track to bloody, unbridled destruction... | |
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The Gallifrey Chronicles - BBC Books / by
Lance Parkin / RRP: £5.99 |
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The Doctor’s home planet of Gallifrey has been
destroyed. The Time Lords are dead, their TARDISes annihilated. The man
responsible has been tracked down and lured to Earth in the year 2005,
where there will be no escape. But Earth has other problems -- a
mysterious signal is being received, a second moon appears in the sky,
and a primordial alien menace waits to be unleashed...
The stage is set for the ultimate confrontation -- for justice to be
done. The Doctor and his companions Fitz and Trix will meet their
destiny. And this time, the Doctor isn’t going to be able to save
everyone. | |
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