The latest addition to the Target Books range is included with the next issue of Doctor Who Magazine – The Evil of the Daleks. The Evil of the Daleks novelisation is adapted by actor Frazer Hines who played companion Jamie alongside Patrick Troughton’s Second Doctor. Ranging from Victorian England to Skaro, home world of the … >
Three new Target novelisations of 2024 Doctor Who series episodes featuring the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday as played by Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson are offered by BBC Books. Space Babies by Alison Rumfitt, 73 Yards by former Doctor Who script supervisor and Bad Wolf producer Scott Handcock and Rogue by Kate Herron and … >
BBC Books has released cover artwork for its Doctor Who Target range with three new 60th anniversary titles available January 2024 The collection are novelisations of the three 2023 Doctor Who specials, which will feature David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble. Each episode’s novelisation will also be available as … >
All three Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials, The Star Beast, Wild Blue Yonder and The Giggle, will be available as audio books of their novelisations in February. The Star Beast novelisation, written by Gary Russell, will be read by Jacqueline King, the actress who plays Sylvia Noble in the television special. The readers of the … >
Five new Doctor Who Target novelisations will become available from July 2023, each written by the original screenwriters of the television episodes. With newly-commissioned artwork from Anthony Dry, these five new novelisations of Doctor Who stories celebrate the 50th year of the novel range, and also coincides with the show’s 60th anniversary. Four of the … >
The Making of Doctor Who, a non-fiction work by script editor Terrance Dicks and screenwriter and novelist Malcolm Hulke first published in paperback in 1972, will be available as an audio edition in early summer. The 1972 edition was principally written by Hulke for Piccalo Books. A second 1976 edition was rewritten by Dicks in … >
BBC Books has announced that it will expand the Doctor Who Target range with five new titles for Summer 2023. The new 2023 titles celebrate Target publishing Doctor Who books for half a century. – each written by the original screenwriters of the TV episodes with newly-commissioned cover artwork by Anthony Dry. Launched in 1973, … >
Two more New Series Target books and new versions of two classic Tom Baker Doctor Who stories. Before VHS, DVDs and streaming, novelisations were the only way for fans to experience Doctor Who stories they had not seen broadcast live. Many encountered the earliest Doctors in prose, years before they saw them onscreen. While the … >
The Target Collection will release three new novelizations of episodes from Series 4, 9 and 10 of Doctor Who later this year. The books are novelizations by the original screenwriters of three Doctor Who episodes. All the television episodes featured actor Peter Capaldi as either Caecilius or the Doctor. The Fires of Pompeii by James … >
Screenwriter and novelist Terrance Dicks died on August 28 at the age of 84, as announced by his agency on September 5. Dicks was best known as a writer for Doctor Who and as the programme’s script editor from 1968 to 1974. He also adapted many Doctor Who televised stories into novelisations for Target Books. … >