10th Doctor Novelisation

Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii

Clare Corbett reads this new novelisation of the TV adventure featuring the Tenth Doctor and Donna. 
 
"My masters will follow the example of Rome... our mighty empire bestraddling the whole of civilization!" 
 
It is AD 79, and the TARDIS lands in Pompeii on the eve of the town's destruction. Mount Vesuvius is ready to erupt and bury its surroundings in molten lava, just as history dictates. Or is it? 
 
The Doctor and Donna find that Pompeii is home to impossible things: circuits made of stone, soothsayers who read minds and fiery giants made of burning rock. From a lair deep in the volcano, these creatures plot the end of humanity - and the Doctor soon finds he has no way to win... 
 
Clare Corbett reads James Moran's novelisation of his 2008 TV episode which starred David Tennant and Catherine Tate. 
 
Reading produced by Neil Gardner at Ladbroke Audio 
Sound design by David Darlington 
Executive producer: Michael Stevens 
 
©2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

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

Torchwood: Consequences

The team become entangled in time in this collection of short stories from the bestselling Torchwood range

James Moran (Author) is a British screenwriter for television and film, who wrote the horror-comedy Severance. He works in the horror, comedy, science-fiction, historical fiction and spy thriller genres 
 
Andrew Cartmel (Author) is a British author and journalist. He was also the script editor of Doctor Who from 1987 to 1989. He has also worked as a script editor on other television series, as a magazine editor, as a comics writer, as a film studies lecturer, and as a novelist. 
 
David Llewellyn (Author) was born in Pontypool in 1978. He is the author of three previous novels, 'Eleven', 'Torchwood: Trace Memory', and 'Everything Is Sinister'. He lives in Cardiff. 
 
Sarah Pinborough (Author) is the author of five horror novels, two of which have been short-listed for the British Fantasy Society Award for Best Novel in 2007 and 2008. Sarah currently lives and works in Milton Keynes. You can find out more about Sarah at www.sarahpinborough.com. 
 
Joseph Lidster (Author) is an author, script writer and actor who has written over 15 dramas for the Doctor Who, Sapphire and Steel and The Tomorrow People ranges, as well as the Torchwood audiobooks In the Shadows and Red Skies. His TV credits include the Torchwood episode 'A Day in the Death' and three episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures. He has also written numerous short stories, including the title story in the Torchwood: Consequences collection and 'Cybermen: Status Update' (an exclusive adventure included in the BBC's interactive ebook Doctor Who: Cybermen Monster File).

Saving the planet, watching over the Rift, preparing the human race for the twenty-first century... Torchwood has been keeping Cardiff safe since the late 1800s. Small teams of heroes, working 24/7, encountering and containing the alien, the bizarre and the inexplicable. 
 
But Torchwood do not always see the effects of their actions. What links the Rules and Regulations for replacing a Torchwood leader to the destruction of a supermarket? How does a witness to an alien's reprisals against Torchwood become caught up in a night of terror in a university library? And why should Gwen and Ianto's actions at a local publisher's affect Torchwood more than a century earlier? 
 
For Torchwood, the past will always catch up with them. And sometimes the future will catch up with the past... 
 
Featuring sci-fi stories by writers for the hit Torchwood series created by Russell T Davies for BBC Television, including James Moran and Joseph Lidster, plus Andrew Cartmel, Sarah Pinborough and David Llewellyn.

James Moran

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"My masters will follow the example of Rome... our mighty empire bestraddling the whole of civilization!" 
 
It is AD 79, and the TARDIS lands in Pompeii on the eve of the town's destruction. Mount Vesuvius is ready to erupt and bury its surroundings in molten lava, just as history dictates. Or is it? 
 
The Doctor and Donna find that Pompeii is home to impossible things: circuits made of stone, soothsayers who read minds and fiery giants made of burning rock. From a lair deep in the volcano, these creatures plot the end of humanity - and the Doctor soon finds he has no way to win...

James Moran

Praise for Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii (Target Collection)

This is so much more than merchandise...these novels are connecting us together even now. All the way across time and space

Target books offered much more than just a window into Doctor Who: they were a formative part of my reading experience

Target writers performed quite a invaluable service in 'saving' these stories...so don't think of this book as just another novel. It's a slice of Who history

This is so much more than merchandise...these novels are connecting us together even now. All the way across time and space

Target books offered much more than just a window into Doctor Who: they were a formative part of my reading experience

Target writers performed quite a invaluable service in 'saving' these stories...so don't think of this book as just another novel. It's a slice of Who history

This is so much more than merchandise...these novels are connecting us together even now. All the way across time and space

Target books offered much more than just a window into Doctor Who: they were a formative part of my reading experience

Target writers performed quite a invaluable service in 'saving' these stories...so don't think of this book as just another novel. It's a slice of Who history

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