Unlike the New Adventures and Eighth Doctor Adventures which had featured the ongoing adventures of the Seventh and and Eighth Doctors respectively, and which had been aimed at an adult readership, the BBC's range of New Series Adventures are aimed at a younger audience, and also feature very little continuity between the novels, making them very much standalone stories.
The first three hardbacks were released in May 2005 and featured the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler.
With the unexpected regeneration of Christopher Eccleston at the conclusion of the first season, it quickly became apparent that the book range would also be undergoing a change.
The second and final batch of books to feature the Ninth Doctor (set later in Season One and including Rose and Captain Jack Harkness) were released in September 2005.
The first three novels featuring the Tenth Doctor and Rose were released in April 2006, while March 2007 saw the first book published to feature the new companion Martha Jones.
The first three hardbacks were released in May 2005 and featured the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler.
With the unexpected regeneration of Christopher Eccleston at the conclusion of the first season, it quickly became apparent that the book range would also be undergoing a change.
The second and final batch of books to feature the Ninth Doctor (set later in Season One and including Rose and Captain Jack Harkness) were released in September 2005.
The first three novels featuring the Tenth Doctor and Rose were released in April 2006, while March 2007 saw the first book published to feature the new companion Martha Jones.
Doctor Who: The Stone Rose
by Jacqueline Rayner
Audio Book
Abridged reading of the novel, narrated by David Tennant who plays the Tenth Doctor in the television series. Both parts of the audio book were given away free in the Radio Times listings magazine in the issues dated 13/01/07 — 19/01/07 and 20/01/07 — 26/01/07.
- UK
- Hardback
- BBC Books
- April 2006
- Book Number: 7
Back Cover Blurb
Mickey is startled to find a statue of Rose in a museum — a statue that is 2,000 years old. The Doctor realises that this means the TARDIS will shortly take them back to ancient Rome, but when it does, he and Rose have more on their minds than sculpture.
While the Doctor searches for a missing boy, Rose befriends a girl whose claims to know the future — a girl whose predictions are surprisingly accurate. But then the Doctor stumbles on the hideous truth behind the statue of Rose — and Rose herself learns that you have to be very careful what you wish for...
Mickey is startled to find a statue of Rose in a museum — a statue that is 2,000 years old. The Doctor realises that this means the TARDIS will shortly take them back to ancient Rome, but when it does, he and Rose have more on their minds than sculpture.
While the Doctor searches for a missing boy, Rose befriends a girl whose claims to know the future — a girl whose predictions are surprisingly accurate. But then the Doctor stumbles on the hideous truth behind the statue of Rose — and Rose herself learns that you have to be very careful what you wish for...
Regular Characters
Tenth Doctor / Rose Tyler
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
Mickey Smith / Jackie Tyler
Tenth Doctor / Rose Tyler
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
Mickey Smith / Jackie Tyler
Audio Book- UK
- BBC Audiobooks
- 2 × CD / Download
- 2 hours 22 minutes
- July 2006
Notes
- The Stone Rose was released at the same time as The Feast of the Drowned and The Resurrection Casket. It was first announced under the title The Untimely Prophet, and was the second book in the New Series Adventures range to be written by Jacqueline Rayner.
- The Stone Rose was the first book in the New Series Adventure range to feature the Tenth Doctor.
Doctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned
by Stephen Cole
Audio Book
Abridged reading of the novel, narrated by David Tennant who plays the Tenth Doctor in the television series. Both parts of the audio book were given away free in the Radio Times listings magazine in the issues dated 23/12/06 — 05/01/07 and 06/01/07 — 12/01/07.
- UK
- Hardback
- BBC Books
- April 2006
- Book Number: 8
Back Cover Blurb
When a naval cruiser sinks in mysterious circumstances in the North Sea, all aboard are lost. Rose is saddened to learn that the brother of her friend, Keisha, was among the dead. And yet he appears to them as a ghostly apparition, begging to be saved from the coming feast...the feast of the drowned.
As the dead crew haunt loved ones all over London, the Doctor and Rose are drawn into a chilling mystery. What sank the ship, and why? When the cruiser's wreckage was towed up the Thames, what sinister force came with it?
The river's dark waters are hiding an even darker secret, as preparations for the feast near their conclusion...
When a naval cruiser sinks in mysterious circumstances in the North Sea, all aboard are lost. Rose is saddened to learn that the brother of her friend, Keisha, was among the dead. And yet he appears to them as a ghostly apparition, begging to be saved from the coming feast...the feast of the drowned.
As the dead crew haunt loved ones all over London, the Doctor and Rose are drawn into a chilling mystery. What sank the ship, and why? When the cruiser's wreckage was towed up the Thames, what sinister force came with it?
The river's dark waters are hiding an even darker secret, as preparations for the feast near their conclusion...
Regular Characters
Tenth Doctor / Rose Tyler
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
Mickey Smith / Jackie Tyler
Tenth Doctor / Rose Tyler
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
Mickey Smith / Jackie Tyler
Audio Book- UK
- BBC Audiobooks
- 2 × CD / Download
- 2 hours 29 minutes
- July 2006
Notes
- The Feast of the Drowned was released at the same time as The Stone Rose and The Resurrection Casket. It was Stephen Cole's second book for the New Series Adventures.
Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket
by Justin Richards
Audio Book
Abridged reading of the novel, narrated by David Tennant who plays the Tenth Doctor in the television series. Both parts of the audio book were given away free in the Radio Times listings magazine in the issues dated 26/04/08 — 02/05/08 and 03/05/08 — 09/05/08.
- UK
- Hardback
- BBC Books
- April 2006
- Book Number: 9
Back Cover Blurb
Starfall — a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work. And that includes the TARDIS.
The pioneers who used to be drawn by the hope of making a fortune from the mines can find easier pickings elsewehere. But they still come — for the romance of it, or in the hope of finding the lost treasure of Hamlek Glint — scourge of the spaceways, privateer, adventurer, bandit...
Will the TARDIS ever work again? Is Glint's lost treasure waiting to be found? And does the fabled Resurrection Casket — the key to eternal life — really exist? With the help of new friends, and facing terrifying new enemies, the Doctor and Rose aim to find out...
Starfall — a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work. And that includes the TARDIS.
The pioneers who used to be drawn by the hope of making a fortune from the mines can find easier pickings elsewehere. But they still come — for the romance of it, or in the hope of finding the lost treasure of Hamlek Glint — scourge of the spaceways, privateer, adventurer, bandit...
Will the TARDIS ever work again? Is Glint's lost treasure waiting to be found? And does the fabled Resurrection Casket — the key to eternal life — really exist? With the help of new friends, and facing terrifying new enemies, the Doctor and Rose aim to find out...
Regular Characters
Tenth Doctor / Rose Tyler
Tenth Doctor / Rose Tyler
Audio Book- UK
- BBC Audiobooks
- 2 × CD / Download
- 2 hours 24 minutes
- July 2006
Notes
- The Resurrection Casket was released at the same time as The Stone Rose and The Feast of the Drowned. It was first announced under the title The Genesis Casket, and was Richards' third book for the New Series Adventures.
Doctor Who: I Am a Dalek
by Gareth Roberts
- UK
- Paperback
- BBC Books
- May 2006
Back Cover Blurb
Equipped with space suits, golf clubs and a flag, the Doctor and Rose are planning to live it up on the Moon, Apollo-mision style. But the TARDIS has other plans, landing them instead in a village on the south coast of England: a picture-postcard sort of place where nothing much happens...until now.
Archaeologists have dug up a Roman mosaic, dating from the year 70 AD. It shows scenes from ancient myths, bunches of grapes — and a Dalek. A few days later a young woman, rushing to get to work, is knocked over and killed by a bus. Then she comes back to life.
It's not long before all hell breaks loose, and the Doctor and Rose must use all their courage and cunning against an alien enemy — and a not-quite-alien accomplice — who are intent on destroying humanity.
Equipped with space suits, golf clubs and a flag, the Doctor and Rose are planning to live it up on the Moon, Apollo-mision style. But the TARDIS has other plans, landing them instead in a village on the south coast of England: a picture-postcard sort of place where nothing much happens...until now.
Archaeologists have dug up a Roman mosaic, dating from the year 70 AD. It shows scenes from ancient myths, bunches of grapes — and a Dalek. A few days later a young woman, rushing to get to work, is knocked over and killed by a bus. Then she comes back to life.
It's not long before all hell breaks loose, and the Doctor and Rose must use all their courage and cunning against an alien enemy — and a not-quite-alien accomplice — who are intent on destroying humanity.
Regular Characters
Tenth Doctor / Rose Tyler
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
The Daleks
Tenth Doctor / Rose Tyler
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
The Daleks
Notes
- I Am a Dalek was released as part of the Quick Reads initiative, which was designed to encourage people to take up reading, in particular adult learners. All of the titles were under 128 pages in length. A second book, Made of Steel, featuring the Cybermen, was released in March 2007.
- Amazingly, this was only the fifth original book to have been published which featured the Daleks, after John Peel's War of the Daleks and Legacy of the Daleks, Simon Clark's The Dalek Factor in 2004, and William H Keith, Jr's Doctor Who and the Vortex Crystal game book from FASA in 1986..
- The back cover of the book contains a rather nasty error, describing a scene in which 'a young woman, rushing to get to work, is knocked over and killed by a bus'. In actual fact, she's rushing to catch the bus when she gets knocked over by a red sports car...
Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Black Island
by Mike Tucker
Audio Book
Abridged reading of the novel, narrated by Anthony Head who played the character of Mr Finch in the episode School Reunion.
- UK
- Hardback
- BBC Books
- September 2006
- Book Number: 10
Back Cover Blurb
On a lonely stretch of Welsh coastline a fisherman is killed by a hideous creature from beneath the waves. When the Doctor and Rose arrive, they discover a village where the children are plagued by nightmares, and the nights are ruled by monsters. The villagers suspect that ailing industrialist Nathaniel Morton is to blame, but the Doctor has suspicions of his own.
Who are the ancient figures that sleep in the old priory? And what is the light that glows in the disused lighthouse on Black Island?
As the children's nightmares get worse, the Doctor and Rose discover an alien plot to resurrect an ancient evil...
On a lonely stretch of Welsh coastline a fisherman is killed by a hideous creature from beneath the waves. When the Doctor and Rose arrive, they discover a village where the children are plagued by nightmares, and the nights are ruled by monsters. The villagers suspect that ailing industrialist Nathaniel Morton is to blame, but the Doctor has suspicions of his own.
Who are the ancient figures that sleep in the old priory? And what is the light that glows in the disused lighthouse on Black Island?
As the children's nightmares get worse, the Doctor and Rose discover an alien plot to resurrect an ancient evil...
Regular Characters
Tenth Doctor / Rose Tyler
Tenth Doctor / Rose Tyler
Audio Book- UK
- BBC Audiobooks
- 2 × CD / Download
- 2 hours 26 minutes
- October 2006
Notes
- The Nightmare of Black Island was released at the same time as The Art of Destruction and The Price of Paradise.
- The Nightmare of Black Island was Mike Tucker's first book for the New Series Adventures, although he had previously co-written four Seventh Doctor novels for BBC Books' Previous Doctor Adventures range with Robert Perry, as well writing Prime Time on his own. He is probably best known to Doctor Who fans for working on the original television series in a special effects capacity, and on the new series as a model maker.
Doctor Who: The Art of Destruction
by Stephen Cole
Audio Book
Abridged reading of the novel, narrated by Don Warrington who played the President in the episode Rise of the Cybermen.
- UK
- Hardback
- BBC Books
- September 2006
- Book Number: 11
Back Cover Blurb
The TARDIS lands in 22nd-century Africa in the shadow of a dormant volcano. Agri-teams are growing new foodstuffs in the baking soil to help feed the world's starving millions — but the Doctor and Rose have detected an alien signal somewhere close by.
When a nightmare force starts surging along the dark volcanic tunnels, the Doctor realises an ancient trap has been sprung. But who was it meant for? And what is the secret of the eerie statues that stand at the heart of the volcano?
Dragged into a centuries-old conflict, Rose and the Doctor have to fight for their lives as alien hands practice the arts of destruction all around them.
The TARDIS lands in 22nd-century Africa in the shadow of a dormant volcano. Agri-teams are growing new foodstuffs in the baking soil to help feed the world's starving millions — but the Doctor and Rose have detected an alien signal somewhere close by.
When a nightmare force starts surging along the dark volcanic tunnels, the Doctor realises an ancient trap has been sprung. But who was it meant for? And what is the secret of the eerie statues that stand at the heart of the volcano?
Dragged into a centuries-old conflict, Rose and the Doctor have to fight for their lives as alien hands practice the arts of destruction all around them.
Regular Characters
Tenth Doctor / Rose Tyler
Tenth Doctor / Rose Tyler
Audio Book- UK
- BBC Audiobooks
- 2 × CD / Download
- 2 hours 41 minutes
- October 2006
Notes
- The Art of Destruction was released at the same time as The Nightmare of Black Island and The Price of Paradise. It was Stephen Cole's third novel for the New Series Adventures.
Doctor Who: The Price of Paradise
by Colin Brake
Audio Book
Abridged reading of the novel, narrated by Shaun Dingwall who played Pete Tyler in the television series.
- UK
- Hardback
- BBC Books
- September 2006
- Book Number: 12
Back Cover Blurb
Laylora — the Paradise Planet. A world of breath-taking beauty, where the peace-loving inhabitants live in harmony with their environment. Or do they? The Doctor and Rose arrive to find that the once perfect eco-system is showing signs of failing. The Paradise Planet has become a death trap as terrifying creatures from ancient legends appear and stalk the land.
Is there a connection between the human explorers who have crash-landed and the savage monsters? And what price might one human have to pay to save the only home he has ever known?
The Doctor and Rose are in a race against time to find a cure for the sick planet.
Laylora — the Paradise Planet. A world of breath-taking beauty, where the peace-loving inhabitants live in harmony with their environment. Or do they? The Doctor and Rose arrive to find that the once perfect eco-system is showing signs of failing. The Paradise Planet has become a death trap as terrifying creatures from ancient legends appear and stalk the land.
Is there a connection between the human explorers who have crash-landed and the savage monsters? And what price might one human have to pay to save the only home he has ever known?
The Doctor and Rose are in a race against time to find a cure for the sick planet.
Regular Characters
Tenth Doctor / Rose Tyler
Tenth Doctor / Rose Tyler
Audio Book- UK
- BBC Audiobooks
- 2 × CD / Download
- 2 hours 32 minutes
- October 2006
Notes
- The Price of Paradise was released at the same time as The Nightmare of Black Island and The Art of Destruction.
- The Price of Paradise was the final book released to feature Rose as the character was written out of the television series at the conclusion of Doomsday, the final episode of the 2006 season.
- The Price of Paradise was Colin Brake's first book for the New Series Adventures, although he had previously written Escape Velocity for the BBC Books range of Eighth Doctor Adventures and The Colony of Lies for the Previous Doctor Adventures.
Outside of Doctor Who, sci-fi TV fans know him best for his work on BUGS, for which he wrote (or co-wrote) no less than nine of the forty episodes.
