11th Doctor Novels

Doctor Who Eleventh Doctor Novels Volume 4

Michael Maloney, Neve McIntosh, David Warner, Nicholas Briggs and Alex Kingston read these four original stories featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory. 
 
In The Silent Stars Go By, by Dan Abnett, the Doctor, Amy, and Rory find a society breaking apart. Then the Doctor’s old enemies, the Ice Warriors, make their move, and the real battle for survival begins. 
In Dark Horizons, by JT Colgan, the Doctor lands on the Northern shore of what will one day become Scotland. There he finds a people under attack from a power they cannot possibly understand. 
In Plague of the Cybermen, by Justin Richards, the Doctor discovers the residents of 19th Century Klimtenburg suffering from a ‘wasting disease’. Even worse, some of his oldest and most terrible enemies are starting to awaken… 
In The Angel’s Kiss, also by Justin Richards, Melody Malone has an unexpected caller. Can the owner and sole employee of the Angel Detective Agency prevent the Angels taking Manhattan? 
 
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1st, 2nd, 4th, 10th Doctor Novelisations

Doctor Who: The Invaders Collection

Four classic TV novelisations in which the Doctor and friends are witnesses to alien invasion. 
 
In Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet, by Gerry Davis, the First Doctor, Ben and Polly help the crew of an Antarctic tracking station as they resist invasion by the Cybermen, intent on enslaving humanity for their own needs. 
 
In The Dominators, by Ian Marter, the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find the peaceful planet Dulkis threatened with subjugation by brutal aliens and their robotic Quarks. 
 
In The Pirate Planet, by Douglas Adams and James Goss, the Fourth Doctor, Romana and K9 encounter the tyrannical Captain of Zanak, whose pillaging of other planets apparently knows no bounds. 
 
In The Christmas Invasion, by Jenny T Colgan, a newly regenerated Tenth Doctor must rely on Rose Tyler to help save Earth from the deadly invading Sycorax. 
 
Anneke Wills, Michael Troughton, Jon Culshaw and Camille Coduri read these thrilling tales, with Nicholas Briggs as the voice of the Cybermen. 
 
Duration: 20 hours 20 mins approx. 
 
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Doctor Who: The Target Storybook

A brilliant new collection of spin-off stories from famous episodes throughout the history of Doctor Who - and a new format for the successful Target publishing range.

We’re all stories in the end… 
 
In this exciting collection you’ll find all-new stories spinning off from some of your favourite Doctor Who moments across the history of the series. Learn what happened next, what went on before, and what occurred off-screen in an inventive selection of sequels, side-trips, foreshadowings and first-hand accounts – and look forward too, with a brand new adventure for the Thirteenth Doctor. 
 
Each story expands in thrilling ways upon aspects of Doctor Who’s enduring legend. With contributions from show luminaries past and present – including Colin Baker, Matthew Waterhouse, Vinay Patel, Joy Wilkinson and Terrance Dicks – The Target Storybook is a once-in-a-lifetime tour around the wonders of the Whoniverse.

Doctor Who: Star Tales

To celebrate the return of Doctor Who in early 2020, a unique collection of name-dropping historical adventures inspired by Jodie Whitaker’s first series as The Doctor.

‘Even though they’re gone from the world, they’re never gone from me.’ 
 
The Doctor is many things – curious, funny, brave, protective of her friends...and a shameless namedropper. While she and her companions battled aliens and travelled across the universe, the Doctor hinted at a host of previous, untold adventures with the great and the good: we discovered she got her sunglasses from Pythagoras (or was it Audrey Hepburn?); lent a mobile phone to Elvis; had an encounter with Amelia Earhart where she discovered that a pencil-thick spider web can stop a plane; had a 'wet weekend' with Harry Houdini, learning how to escape from chains underwater; and more. 
 
In this collection of new stories, Star Tales takes you on a rip-roaring ride through history, from 500BC to the swinging 60s, going deeper into the Doctor's notorious name-dropping and revealing the truth behind these anecdotes.

The Triple Knife and Other Doctor Who Stories

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Five mesmerising Doctor Who adventures by Sunday Times bestselling author Jenny T. Colgan, published together in one volume for the first time.

Short stories that are bigger on the inside. 
 
 Join the women of the Whoniverse for five thrilling Doctor Who adventures by Sunday Times bestselling author Jenny T. Colgan. 
 
Ashildr, a young Viking girl, died bravely helping the Doctor save the village she loved – so the Doctor used alien technology to bring her back to life. Ashildr became immortal and, since that day, has kept journals to chronicle her extraordinary life. 'The Triple Knife' is a glimpse into the life of a woman who lived longer than anyone ever should – and lost more than she can even remember. 
 
'Picnic at Asgard' drops in on another woman of the Whoniverse who never fails to find herself too far from danger and excitement. And when you’re married to a Time Lord, what more can you expect? This adventure, extracted from her journal, reveals still more about the legendary River Song. 
 
'Into the Nowhere' follows the Eleventh Doctor and Clara as they land on an unknown alien planet. To the Doctor’s delight and Clara’s astonishment, it really is unknown. It’s a planet the Doctor has never seen. It’s not on any maps, it’s not referenced on any star charts or in the TARDIS data banks. It doesn’t even have a name. What could be so terrible here that has been erased? 
 
This collection also includes two further adventures 'All The Empty Towers' and 'A Long Way Down' – a short story never published in volume form before.

Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion (Target Collection)

The Tenth Doctor's first adventure, novelised by bestselling author Jenny T Colgan

Discover the new Doctor Who classics. 
 
Earth is under attack by power-hungry aliens. This is no time for the Doctor to be out of action. 
 
When a British space probe is intercepted by a sinister alien vessel on the eve of Christmas, it marks the beginning of an audacious invasion of the Earth by the Sycorax – horrifying marauders from beyond the stars. Within hours, a third of humanity stands on the brink of death with not a single shot fired. 
 
Our planet needs a champion – but the Doctor is not fit for service. He’s just regenerated, delirious in a new body and a dressing gown. Forced into his battered shoes is his friend, Rose Tyler, a girl from a London council estate. Will she save the world from this nightmare before Christmas – or see it destroyed?

10th Doctor Novelisation

Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion

Camille Coduri reads this brand new novelisation of the Tenth Doctor’s first adventure.

Camille Coduri reads this brand new novelisation of the Tenth Doctor’s first adventure. Earth is under attack by power-hungry aliens. This is no time for the Doctor to be out of action. 
 
When a British space probe is intercepted by a sinister alien vessel on the eve of Christmas, it marks the beginning of an audacious invasion of the Earth by the Sycorax – horrifying marauders from beyond the stars. Within hours, a third of humanity stands on the brink of death with not a single shot fired. 
 
Our planet needs a champion – but the Doctor is not fit for service. He’s just regenerated, delirious in a new body and a dressing gown. Forced into his battered shoes is his friend, Rose Tyler, a girl from a London council estate. Will she save the world from this nightmare before Christmas – or see it destroyed? 
 
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© BBC Worldwide 2018 
 
Novelisation copyright © Jenny T. Colgan 2018 
Original script copyright © Russell T Davies 2005 
 
Cover illustration by Anthony Dry 
 
BBC logo © BBC 1996 
Doctor Who logo © BBC 2014 
 
For BBC Worldwide: 
Reading produced by Neil Gardner 
Recorded at Ladbroke Audio Ltd 
Sound design by David Darlington 
Executive producer: Michael Stevens 
TARDIS sound effect composed by Brian Hodgson 
 
For BBC Books: 
Editorial Director: Albert DePetrillo 
Project Editor: Steve Cole 
Cover design: Two Associates 
Cover illustration: Anthony Dry 
 
Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion first published by BBC Books in 2018

Four Stories from the TARDIS

Doctor Who: The Day She Saved the Doctor

A collection of stories adapted for young readers taking them to the heart of the Whoniverse! Doctor Who is the longest running sci-fi show in the world, and a flagship BBC property. First appearing on air in 1963, it follows the adventures of the Doctor, a Time Lord who travels through time and space, fighting alien monsters and saving the universe.

The Doctor's Companion: A person who explores time and space with the Doctor, fights enemies with the Doctor, and often has to save the Doctor's life. 
 
If it wasn't for the companions, the Doctor probably wouldn't have made it out of so many scrapes. To celebrate the formidable women who have travelled in the TARDIS, dive into four fantastic new adventures with the Doctor, starring Rose, Sarah-Jane, Clara and Bill. 
 
Written by Jenny Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Dorothy Koomson and Susan Calman, these stories are the perfect way to celebrate the Doctor's fantastic female heroines, for fans of all ages.

A companion: explores time and space with the Doctor, gets into trouble with the Doctor, fights enemies with the Doctor . . . And - more often than not - has to save his life. 
 
Here are four fantastic new adventures with the Doctor, starring Rose, Sarah-Jane, Clara and Bill. Publishing on International Women's Day in March 2018, it will also be the perfect way to prepare for Jodie Whittaker's first ever female Doctor. 
 
Written by Jenny Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Dorothy Koomson and Susan Calman, these stories are a celebration of the Doctor's fantastic female friends, for fans of all ages.

Doctor Who: In the Blood

Jenny Colgan's thrilling Tenth Doctor adventure - now in paperback

All over the world, people are venting their fury at one another on social media. Dropping their friends, giving vent to their hatred, and everywhere behaving with incredible cruelty. Even Donna has found that her friend Hettie, with her seemingly perfect life and fancy house, has unfriended her. And now, all over the world, internet trolls are dying... 
 
As more and more people give in to this wave of bitterness and aggression, it's clear this is no simple case of modern living. This is unkindness as a plague. 
 
From the streets of London to the web cafes of South Korea and the deepest darkest forests of Rio, can the Doctor and Donna find the cause of this unhappiness before it's too late? 
 
An original novel featuring the Tenth Doctor and Donna, as played by David Tennant and Catherine Tate.

Doctor Who: The Legends of River Song

The first full length book featuring River Song's adventures

‘Hello, sweetie!’ 
 
Melody Pond, Melody Malone, River Song…She has had many names. Whoever she really is, this archaeologist and time traveller has had more adventures (and got into more trouble) than most people in the universe. 
 
And she’s written a lot of it down. Well, when you’re married to a Time Lord (or possibly not), you have to keep track of what you did and when. Especially as it may not actually have happened to both of you yet. 
 
These are just a few of River Song’s exploits, extracted from her journals. Sometimes, she is with the Doctor. Sometimes she’s on her own. But wherever and whenever she may be, she is never far from danger and excitement. 
 
This is just a tiny portion of her impossible life. But it will reveal more than you’ve ever known about the legend that is River Song.

Doctor Who: The Legends of Ashildr

Never-before-told stories of The Woman Who Lived

Justin Richards (Author) 
A celebrated writer and Creative Consultant to the BBC Books range of Doctor Who books, Justin Richards lives and works in Warwick with his wife and two children. When he’s not writing, he can be found indulging his passion for inventing, reading and watching far too much television. 
 
James Goss (Author) 
James Goss is the author of two Doctor Who novels: The Blood Cell and Dead of Winter, as well as Summer Falls (on behalf of Amy Pond). He is also the co-author, with Steve Tribe, of The Doctor: His Lives and Times, The Dalek Handbook and Doctor Who: A History of the Universe in 100 Objects. While at the BBC James produced an adaptation of Shada, an unfinished Douglas Adams Doctor Who story, and Dirk is his award-winning stage adaptation of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. His Doctor Who audiobook Dead Air won Best Audiobook 2010 and his books Dead of Winter and First Born were both nominated for the 2012 British Fantasy Society Awards. 
 
Jenny T. Colgan (Author) 
Jenny T. Colgan has written 16 bestselling novels as Jenny Colgan, which have sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide, been translated into 25 languages, and won both the Melissa Nathan Award and Romantic Novel of the Year 2013. Aged 11, she won a national fan competition to meet the Doctor and was mistaken for a boy by Peter Davison. 
 
David Llewellyn (Author) 
David Llewellyn 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.

Ashildr, a young Viking girl, died helping the Doctor and Clara to save the village she loved. And for her heroism, the Doctor used alien technology to bring her back to life. Ashildr is now immortal – The Woman Who Lived. 
 
Since that day, Ashildr has kept journals to chronicle her extraordinary life. The Legends of Ashildr is a glimpse of some of those stories: the terrors she has faced, the battles she has won, and the treasures she has found. 
 
These are tales of a woman who lived longer than she should ever have lived – and lost more than she can even remember. 
 
 
An original novel featuring the Twelfth Doctor as played by Peter Capaldi, and Ashildr as played by Maisie Williams.

Doctor Who: Time Trips (The Collection)

Groundbreaking Doctor Who adventures by some of the most respected writers in the Universe - now available in one volume

Time Trips is a unique and beautifully illustrated collection of Doctor Who adventures from bestselling and award-winning writers including Joanne Harris, Trudi Canavan, Nick Harkaway, A.L. Kennedy and more. Taking you from ancient Alexandria to nameless planets in the far future, these tales are at turns funny, frightening, moving and thought-provoking – short stories that are bigger on the inside. 
 
Time Trips includes: 
 
The Anti-Hero (featuring the Second Doctor) by Stella Duffy 
 
Salt of the Earth (featuring the Third Doctor) by Trudi Canavan 
 
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Time Traveller (featuring the Third Doctor) by Joanne Harris 
 
The Death Pit (featuring the Fourth Doctor) by A.L. Kennedy 
 
A Handful of Stardust (featuring the Sixth Doctor) by Jake Arnott 
 
The Bog Warrior (featuring the Tenth Doctor) by Cecelia Ahern 
 
Keeping Up with the Joneses (featuring the Tenth Doctor) by Nick Harkaway 
 
Into the Nowhere (featuring the Eleventh Doctor) by Jenny T. Colgan

Doctor Who: Into the Nowhere (Time Trips)

Time Trips &ndash; groundbreaking Doctor Who adventures by some of the most respected writers in the Universe. Short stories that are bigger on the inside&hellip;

The Eleventh Doctor and Clara land on an unknown alien planet. To the Doctor&rsquo;s delight and Clara&rsquo;s astonishment, it really is unknown. It&rsquo;s a planet the Doctor has never seen. It&rsquo;s not on any maps, it&rsquo;s not referenced on any star charts or in the TARDIS data banks. It doesn&rsquo;t even have a name. What could be so terrible that its existence has been erased?

Doctor Who: Dark Horizons

From popular author Jenny Colgan, a thrilling adventure in which the latest Doctor battles Vikings, chess and an unstoppable fire....

Well-written,   amusing and Colgan perfectly captures Matt Smith's on-screen delivery in the   dialogue

A   terrific tale with some surprising twists and turns – more please!  8/10

A great   story, told with flair and action to keep the fans glued to the pages

A page turner for the fans and perhaps for more casual viewers of the series, although Dark Horizons may not come to be known as a Doctor Who classic, it's an entertaining adventure for Matt Smith's Doctor.

A pitch-perfect take on the eleventh Doctor, packed with mystery and action.

Jenny T.  Colgan has written 13 bestselling novels as Jenny Colgan, which have  sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide. Aged 11, she won a national fan  competition to meet the Doctor and was mistaken for a boy by Peter  Davison. She lives in France, and her favourite episodes are 'Silence in  the Library' and 'Warriors' Gate'.

"We need to reach out. We need to continue the line..." 
 
 On a windswept northern shore, the islanders believe the worst they have to fear is a Viking attack. Then the burning comes. Water will not stop it. It consumes everything in its path - yet the burned still speak. 
 
 The Doctor encounters a people under attack from a power they cannot possibly understand. They have no weapons, no strategy and no protection against a fire sent to engulf them all. The islanders must take on a ruthless alien force in a world without technology; but at least they have the Doctor on their side... Don't they? 
 
 A thrilling adventure starring the Doctor, as played by Matt Smith.

Neve McIntosh reads this original Doctor Who adventure by J. T. Colgan, featuring the Eleventh Doctor.

On a windswept Northern shore, at the very tip of what will one day become Scotland, the islanders believe the worst they have to fear is a Viking attack. Then the burning comes. They cannot run from it. Water will not stop it. It consumes everything - yet the burned still speak.   The Doctor is looking for a game on the famous Lewis chess set. Instead he encounters a people under attack from a power they cannot possibly understand. They have no weapons, no strategy and no protection against a fire sent to engulf them. Add in some marauding Vikings with very bad timing, a kidnapped princess with a secret of her own and a TARDIS that seems to have developed an inexplicable fear of water, and they all have a battle on their hands. The islanders must take on a ruthless alien force in a world without technology; without communications; without tea that isn't made out of bark. Still, at least they have the Doctor on their side - don't they?   A thrilling adventure featuring the Doctor as played by Matt Smith in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.

Jenny T Colgan

Maureen O'Brien

11th Doctor Novelisation

Maureen O’Brien reads this gripping novelisation of the 2010 BBC TV adventure. 
 
An improbably call for help from River Song draws the Doctor and Amy to the wreck of the starship Byzantium on the world of Alfava Metraxis. 
 
The wreck contains a deadly cargo – a Weeping Angel, determined to escape. And the starship’s crash site, infringing on a sprawling subterranean tomb, is no coincidence. 
 
In uneasy alliance with a squad of military clerics, the Doctor’s investigation becomes a desperate battle to survive as an army of implacable, quantum-locked killers grows ever stronger – and flesh becomes stone. 
 
Maureen O’Brien, who played Vicki in the original BBC TV Doctor Who series, reads bestselling author Jenny T Colgan’s novelization of Steven Moffat’s classic two-part SF thriller from Matt Smith’s first season as the Eleventh Doctor. 
 
Reading produced by Morrison Ellis 
Sound design by David Roocroft 
Executive Producer: Michael Stevens 
 
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