BBC Doctor Who books

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Murders in medieval Oxford.

'My view,' said the Doctor, ' is that you can run - in fact it's often by far the best option - but you can't hide. I'll see myself out.'

 

Nyssa felt a pang of disappointment. He had gone. She would probably never see him again.

 

The town of Oxford in AD 1278 seems a haven of tranquillity. Under the summer sun, merchants, students and clerics go about their daily, unhurried tasks.

 

Alfric, the proctor of the Franciscan friary, has only two minor problems: one of the friars has gone missing, and there's a travelling showman, calling himself the Doctor, with a pretty young noblewoman by his side, attracting crowds in the narrow streets.

 

When the missing friar is found dead, the Doctor is convinced he has been murdered. There is a ruthless killer at large, and Alfric reluctantly teams up with the Doctor to track him down.

 

Their investigation leads towards the most celebrated of the Franciscan brotherhood: Roger Bacon, famed throughout Christendom as a scholar - and, in the far future, the subject of a revolutionary thesis by technographer Nyssa of Traken.

 

 

This story features the Fourth Doctor and Nyssa.

bbc books #087

Publication Date: 7 May 2001

ISBN: 0 563 53833 3

Pages: 254

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War between musicians and their pets.

'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.

 

 

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.

bbc books #088

Publication Date: 4 June 2001

ISBN: 0 563 53831 7

Pages: 276

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Alien killers prey on an idyllic colony.

The Valethske are hunters. They've been sleeping for centuries and now they're hungry.

 

Peri hasn't been time-travelling for long and is just getting used to the Doctor and the TARDIS. The Doctor's such a sweet, friendly guy and the TARDIS keeps leaving her little presents, which is neat.

 

When the TARDIS takes them to a party of super-advanced humans on a pleasure-planetoid in the far future (even neater!), Peri falls for the charms of the local hunk and finds herself flying headlong into a quite different form of time-travel...

 

The Valethske are hunters. They prefer human flesh to any other. They've been sleeping for centuries and now they're hungry. The Doctor, teaming up with shamed xenologist Aline Vehlmann, finds himself caught up in the machinations of the vulpine hunters, and discovers that fresh meat isn't all they're after...

 

For deep beneath the surface of a strange and beautiful garden-planet, something is waiting. Something that Aline believes is her destiny. Something for which the Valethske have been searching for centuries. And as events escalate into a desperate fight for survival, who will prove themselves the superior beings?

 

 

Featuring the Fifth Doctor and Peri, this adventure takes place between the TV stories Planet of Fire and The Caves of Androzani.

bbc books #089

Publication Date: 4 June 2001

ISBN: 0 563 53830 9

Pages: 279

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Oh yes. You can change the laws of physics.

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 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.

 

 

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.

bbc books #090

Publication Date: 2 July 2001

ISBN: 0 563 53835 X

Pages: 250

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Not Istanbul. Not Constantinople.

'Life is cheap in Byzantium. Life is cheap everywhere that the Romans are.'

 

Byzantium. The imperial city. It rises, dramatically, as if by a trick of the light from the peninsular of the Bosphorous and the Black Sea. Its domes and towers and minarets overlooking a place of intrigue, lust, power, oppression, resistance and murder.

 

Romans, Greeks, Zealots and Pharisees all mix in the market squares of the town, but mutual loathing and suspicion are rife.

 

Into this cauldron, the Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki arrive expecting to view the splendour of the Roman empire. But events cast them into a deadly maelstrom of social and political upheaval.

 

In the eye of the hurricane they must individually face the possibility of being stranded, alone, in a culture in which they do not belong.

 

 

This story features the First Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki.

bbc books #091

Publication Date: 2 July 2001

ISBN: 0 563 53836 8

Pages: 283

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An attempt to terraform a planet goes disastrously wrong.

The Planet Ceres Alpha is being 'developed'. The surface crawls with the gigantic city-machines that are churning and rebuilding the world, seeding it with tomorrow's vegetation so that full-scale colonisation can follow.

 

But Gaskil Tyran, head of the biosphere-engineers 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.

 

 

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.

bbc books #092

Publication Date: 6 August 2001

ISBN: 0 563 53837 6

Pages: 284

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Sarah Jane Smith's greatest case? Or her last one...

'You're not the Doctor I knew.'

'Perhaps you never knew the Doctor.'

 

Hong Kong 1997: the handover to Chinese rule is imminent, and investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith is on the trail of corruption in the Far East.

 

Street gangsters lurk around every corner. And when one decides to confide in Sarah, she is thrown headlong into danger.

 

What are UNIT doing in Hong Kong, and why are they following missing backpackers? What is causing a spate of strange and unatural deaths? And how is Sarah's old and trusted friend the Doctor involved? More importantly, whose side is he on?

 

The truth can now be told, and the outcome of Sarah's investigations revealed. But will her world ever be the same again?

 

 

This adventure features the Seventh Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith.

bbc books #093

Publication Date: 6 August 2001

ISBN: 0 563 53834 1

Pages: 254

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Grave-robbing and mystic forces in New Orleans.

"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 by 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.

 

 

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.

bbc books #094

Publication Date: 3 September 2001

ISBN: 0 563 53839 2

Pages: 278

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Is it an experiment, or the end of existence?

It's Reading Week at the University of East Wessex, but not everything comes to a stop.

 

The wood is still haunted. Experiments in telepathy, remote viewing, precognition and other paranormal phenomena continue in the Parapsychology Department.

 

The department heads still think the Kellerfield Research Fellow is out for publicity rather than psychic results. A grizzly murder remains unsolved by local police. The students are still holding seances in the graveyard.

 

When the TARDIS arrives in Norswood, the Doctor and Leela are caught up in events that are spiralling out of control. Leela is chased by a phantom, and the Doctor takes the waters. But soon it isn't the Parapsychology Department's funding that's in question - it's the whole of existence.

 

 

This adventure features the Fourth Doctor and Leela.

bbc books #095

Publication Date: 3 September 2001

ISBN: 0 563 53814 7

Pages: 283

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Are the crew really trapped in a fairytale?

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 terrible/beautiful things 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.

 

 

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.

bbc books #096

Publication Date: 1 October 2001

ISBN: 0 563 53841 4

Pages: 276

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It's only a movie...

'It was the City of Angels, and the angels were screaming...'

 

Los Angeles, 1947: Multi-millionaire movie producer Harold Reitman has been murdered and the LAPD are convinced that drug dealer Robert Chate is the killer.

 

Detective William Fletcher isn't so sure - he believes that the man who calls himself the Doctor has a stronger connection to the crime than he's letting on.

 

While the Doctor aids the police with their enquiries, Star Light Pictures are preparing to release their most eagerly anticipated picture yet, Dying in the Sun, a film that rumours say will change the nature of the motion picture industry forever.

 

Suspecting that the picture holds secrets more terrifying then anyone could ever have imagined, the Doctor decides that he must do everything in his power to stop the film from being released. In Hollywood, however, it is the movie studios who hold all the power...

 

 

This story features the Second Doctor, Ben and Polly.

bbc books #097

Publication Date: 1 October 2001

ISBN: 0 563 53840 6

Pages: 281

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The Doctor's dying in a brothel. Killer apes destroy London.

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.

 

 

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.

bbc books #098

Publication Date: 5 November 2001

ISBN: 0 563 53842 2

Pages: 284

[DrWho42 13]

Old enemies and old friends - who to trust?

The leaders on planet Earth think that the Magnate is a mysterious 'Shadow Government' that controls the world. It isn't.

 

The leaders believe the Network to be a ramshackle, paranoid outfit of European anarchists who will eventually blow themselves up. They won't. The leaders believe that if there are humans who can control things with their minds - ESPnets - they're few and far between, and not worth worrying about. They're wrong.

 

The leaders believe that one minute after midnight on 31 December 1993, a new year, full of promise, will begin. They're wrong.

 

The Doctor and Mel arrive on Earth just days before New Year. An old friend as been kidnapped and taken to France. And two murderous enemies are setting up a new life in the Peak District.

 

Which of these threats should the Doctor deal with first? And why is his old travelling companion Evelyn Smythe using her knowledge of the future to make a fortune selling the Doctor's chocolate cake recipes?

 

 

This adventure features the Sixth Doctor and Mel.

bbc books #099

Publication Date: 5 November 2001

ISBN: 0 563 53828 7

Pages: 285

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The Lord of the Rings. But with Poodles.

"Grrrr."

 

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 it was when the Doctor read it.

 

Now he 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 in the dogworld - until the Doctor, Fitz and Anji (and assorted friends) can sort it out.

 

The Doctor infiltrates the Smudgelings, Tyler's elite Cambridge writing set of the early twentieth century; Fitz falls for the flamboyant torch singer Brenda Scoobie in sixties Las Vegas, and Anji experiences some very special effects in Hollywood, 1978. Their intention is to prevent the movie 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.

 

 

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.

bbc books #100

Publication Date: 7 January 2002

ISBN: 0 563 53845 7

Pages: 249

[DrWho42 13]

Old soldiers never die. They just kill...

'Do Time Lords get Alzheimer's disease?' asked Ace.

'Oh, we get far worse things than that, Ace. The dementias that plague us are much, much darker.'

 

Collecting his post in the London of 2012, the Doctor and Ace are called through time to south-east Scotland to help out an old friend - an old friend who's vanished. They find themselves at Graystairs, an Alzheimer's treatment clinic and a place of healing, where the patients seem to be gaining a new lease of life.

 

But whose life is it?

 

Why is the Doctor so reluctant to talk about what happened in the TARDIS? What is alien technology doing in a tumbled-down cottage? Why are cats and dogs - not to mention people - disappearing? Who is the shadowy figure stalking the Doctor and Ace - and what is the secret of the mysterious Miss Chambers who no one remembers meeting?

 

Soon, the Doctor and Ace find out the hard way that actions have consequences - and that there's more than one kind of dementia.

 

 

This adventure features the Seventh Doctor and Ace.

bbc books #101

Publication Date: 7 January 2002

ISBN: 0 563 53844 9

Pages: 277

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Can the Doctor trust the mysterious Silver?

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...

 

 

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.

bbc books #102

Publication Date: 4 February 2002

ISBN: 0 563 53846 5

Pages: 249

[DrWho42 13]

In the bleak midwinter, snow on snow on snow...

'White. The perfect camouflage for ghosts.'

 

White consumes the New Hampshire landscape, as troops move in on a survivalist cult following a spate of unnaturally severe blizzards. The Special Forces group, White Shadow, are searching for the missing fragments of a US Air Force jet, which crashed while engaged in top secret test flights over the region.

 

The Doctor and Leela have arrived at quite literally the wrong time. Thanksgiving is approaching. Traditionally it is a holiday all about home and family. This year all of that is lost.

 

Lost: like the local community, in the grip of something far more sinister than a harsh winter. Like young Amber Mailloux, victim of a broken home that won't even settle in one place. Even White Shadow, entirely out of their depth and up against an enemy that not even the Doctor can find in this world of white.

 

An enemy which promises the bleakest of midwinters for the people of New Hampshire and, certainly before springtime, the end of life on Earth...

 

 

This novel features the Fourth Doctor and Leela.

bbc books #103

Publication Date: 4 February 2002

ISBN: 0 563 53843 0

Pages: 283

[DrWho42 13]

A war where time is the weapon.

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.

 

 

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.

bbc books #104

Publication Date: 4 March 2002

ISBN: 0 563 53847 3

Pages: 277

[DrWho42 13]

A quest with a giant teddy bear.

Glavis Judd: Protector of the galaxy or interstellar tyrant? Unscrupulous reporter Dexel Dynes doesn't care. He's only after a sensational story - the more violent the better.

 

Meanwhile, the TARDIS has landed Peri and the Doctor on a strangely isolated little world, whose immaculate gardens basking under a timeless sun seem the very model of tranquillity. Of course, it's too good to be true.

 

With the threat of invasion looming, the Doctor and Peri confront the lofty Lords of Esselven. The Doctor must pass safely through the vast gardens of the royal estate while evading the clutches of their fanatical gardeners. Peri has escaped from all that, only to face the dangers of the dark and mysterious wild woods, which hold their own ancient secrets.

 

It is a race to save the people of Esselven from the clutches of Glavis Judd. But who amongst the garden world's strange inhabitants can they trust, when nobody is quite what they seem? As time runs out, will Peri and the Doctor discover who really rules inside the Palace of the Red Sun?

 

 

This adventure features the Sixth Doctor and Peri.

bbc books #105

Publication Date: 4 March 2002

ISBN: 0 563 53849 X

Pages: 284

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The leaders of Earth fight to become the new Lords of Time.

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 it 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.

 

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.

bbc books #106

Publication Date: 8 April 2002

ISBN: 0 563 53848 1

Pages: 249

[DrWho42 13]

Avenging angels and mystical mobsters.

'Those people that die must die. It's history, it's already happened and there's nothing we can do to prevent it, Sarah.'

 

East End gangster Tommy Ramsey emerges from prison in 1952, determined to retake control of his territory on the streets of Shoreditch. But new arrivals theaten his grip on all illegal activity in the area.

 

An evangelical minister at St Luke's Church is persuading people to seek redemption for their sins. A new gang is claiming the streets for their own. And a watchmender called Doctor John Smith is leading a revolt against the Ramsey Mob's protection racket.

 

But when Tommy strikes back against his enemies, a far more terrifying threat is revealed. Within hours the city's air begins turning into nerve gas and thousands are killed by the choking fumes. London is dying...

 

 

This novel features the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith.

bbc books #107

Publication Date: 8 April 2002

ISBN: 0 563 53850 3

Pages: 286

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The Book of the Still is a lifeline for stranded time travellers.

The Unnoticed are a race bound to keep itself 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' 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...

 

 

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.

bbc books #108

Publication Date: 6 May 2002

ISBN: 0 563 53851 1

Pages: 224

[DrWho42 13]

The cosmos unites against a vicious warlord.

'This is High Treason, and for this you deserve death. However, in view of your past service, the sentence is commuted to exile. You leave Gallifrey this day, never to return.'

 

A chain of events has been set in motion that will change the Doctor and Peri forever. A chain that involves old enemies as well as old friends.

 

How does Peri come to be the leader of a gang of rebel fighters on an outlying planet? Who is the mysterious 'General' that they are rebelling against so violently? Where does the so-called 'Supremo', leader of the Alliance forces ranged against the General, come from, and why is he so interested in Peri?

 

The answers lie in the origins of a conflict that will affect the whole cosmos - a conflict that will find Humans, Sontarans, Draconians and even Cybermen fighting together for the greater good and glory. For the Supremo.

 

It is a conflict that will test both the Doctor and Peri to the limit, and bring them face to face with the dark sides of their own personalities.

 

 

This adventure features the Fifth Doctor and Peri.

bbc books #109

Publication Date: 6 May 2002

ISBN: 0 563 53852 X

Pages: 288

[DrWho42 13]

What's up, Doc?

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!

 

 

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.

bbc books #110

Publication Date: 3 June 2002

ISBN: 0 563 53856 2

Pages: 251

[DrWho42 13]

The library in the body.

Far out in space, on the ragged edges of Earth's bloated empire, an elite unit of soldiers is on a training mission.

 

But deep in the heart of the hollowed-out planetoid that forms their battleground, a chilling secret waits to be discovered: ten alien corpses, frozen in time at the moment of violent, bloody death.

 

The bodies are those of the empire's most wanted terrorists, and their discovery could end a war of attrition devastating the galaxy. But is the same force that slaughtered them still lurking in the dark tunnels of the training ground? And what are its plans for the people of Earth?

 

When the Doctor arrives on the planetoid with Ben and Polly, he soon scents a net tightening about them. And as the soldiers begin to disappear one by one, paranoia spreads; is the real enemy out there in the darkness, or somewhere among them?

 

 

This adventure features the First Doctor, Ben and Polly.

bbc books #111

Publication Date: 3 June 2002

ISBN: 0 563 53853 8

Pages: 280

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History isn't always written by the winning side.

"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 faction 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.

 

 

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.

bbc books #112

Publication Date: 1 July 2002

ISBN: 0 563 53854 6

Pages: 273

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Ferocious cannibals and deadly beasts stalk the swamps.

When 400-year-old tribal mummies inexplicably return to life and begin murdering tourists on an exotic alien island, the Doctor's initial urge to investigate lands himself, Jamie and Victoria right in the middle of a jungle holocaust.

 

Ferocious cannibals and deadly beasts stalk the swamps, mummies lurk amongst the trees and the peaceful, civilised locals are reverting to long-forgotten head-hunting practices. Something is giving a clarion call to savagery, something that can only be found in the deepest darkness at the heart of the hostile rainforest.

 

It could well be the end of the river for the TARDIS companions as they find themselves involved in a horrific jungle conflict between desperate guerrilla tribesmen and merciless colonial forces. Cannibalism could be the least of their worries as evil stirs the pot and the dead reach for the living...

 

 

This story features the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria.

bbc books #113

Publication Date: 1 July 2002

ISBN: 0 563 53855 4

Pages: 284

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Whatever happened to the Doctor's second heart?

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. And discovers the shocking truth about what became of his missing heart.

 

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.

 

 

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.

bbc books #114

Publication Date: 5 August 2002

ISBN: 0 563 53857 0

Pages: 280

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Should the Doctor save a planet?

Jo gripped the sides of the console. Even over the roar of the engine she could hear branches whipping and snapping against the TARDIS exterior.The view on the scanner was receding at the speed of an express train. It showed the swathe of destruction they were leaving behind them, a ragged, police box-shaped tunnel through the forest.

 

In England a hotel worker has been turned to stone, an ancient lake has vanished, and the inmate of a mental hospital is being terrorised by unseen creatures. In Israel, in the shadow of Masada, an archaeological dig unearths something that should have stayed buried.

 

The Doctor is sure he is dealing with a local and relatively straightforward temporal anomaly. Troy Game, a refugee from the planet Caresh, is not so certain. She believes the impending destruction of her home world is somehow linked to the events on Earth, and she is pinning her hopes on the Doctor to avert the catastrophe.

 

But can the Doctor interfere with a planet's destiny? And should he risk his new-found freedom to do it?

 

 

bbc books #115

Publication Date: 5 August 2002

ISBN: 0 563 53858 9

Pages: 282

[DrWho42 13]

Fitz goes to his certain death. The Doctor goes to Siberia.

"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.

 

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.

bbc books #116

Publication Date: 2 September 2002

ISBN: 0 563 53866 X

Pages: 275