Two new novels will be released in May featuring the Fifteenth Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu), who will debut as the new companion in the new Doctor Who series to begin transmission in April.
Both adventures will be available in hardback, eBook and audio formats.
Fear Death By Water by Emily Cook
“The storm is an omen. A beast is rising from the deep. The ocean will consumer us all. Fear death by water.”
Northumberland, 1838. The TARDIS crash lands on board a sinking steamship. Stranded, the Doctor and the few survivors fight for their lives – while the local lighthouse keeper’s daughter, Grace Darling, risks her life to row to their rescue.
Lauded a heroine, Grace struggles to cope with her new-found fame. But the Doctor senses something else is troubling Grace. She’s been tormented by the terrifying vision she saw out at sea in the storm. There’s a monster in her mind, wrecking ships and stealing the souls of the drowned. And it’s real.
Author Emily Cook will be known to fans for organising the ‘Doctor Who: Lockdown’ initiative in 2020 which saw the likes of David Tennant, Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Catherine Tate tweeting to Whovians across the world whilst watching episodes. She has also worked with Big Finish and Apple TV.
Susan Twist, who played Susan Triad in the Doctor Who television series, reads the audio version of this adventure.
Spectral Scream by Hannah Fergesen
“A piercing shriek ruptured the silence. The agonised howl of a creature in deep, shattering pain. That haunting, spectral scream.”
When a psychic shriek for help nearly overwhelms the TARDIS, the Doctor and Belinda track the source to a distant planet. There they find a sentient, telepathic bioship named Adama and ragged colonists descended from the original crew. Adama is dying, and their spectral screams are growing strong enough to kill anyone in the vicinity.
When Adama crashed 100 years ago, it was with a great treasure on board, stolen from the ruthless Gangnax Imperium – technology that could either unite worlds or destroy them. If they are to save the bioship, the Doctor and Belinda must survive suspicious colonists, greedy bounty hunters and military forces determined to reclaim what’s theirs – before Adama’s final death throes destroy them all.
Author Hannah Fergesen is a freelance editor and former literary agent who has represented New York Times bestselling authors and since written their own debut novel, The Infinite Miles, a time-travelling science fiction odyssey and homage to Doctor Who.
Michelle Asante, who played a neighbour in the Doctor Who television story In the Forest of the Night and also voiced several characters for Big Finish Productions, reads the audio version of this adventure.
Fear Death By Water and Spectral Scream are both available for pre-order for a 29 May 2025 release.
Doctor Who Season Two, starring Ncuti Gatwa, Millie Gibson and Varda Sethu, will transmit in April and May 2025 on BBC One, BBC iPlayer and Disney+ where available.