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 Sontaran Games
by Jacqueline Rayner
- UK
- Paperback
- BBC Books
- February 2009
Back Cover Blurb
Every time the lights go out, someone dies...
The TARDIS lands at an academy for top athletes, all hoping to be chosen for the forthcoming Globe Games. But is one of them driven enough to resort to murder? The Doctor discovers that the students have been hushing up unexplained deaths.
Teaming up with a young swimmer called Emma, the Doctor begins to investigate — but he doesn't expect to find a squad of Sontarans invading the academy!
As the Sontarans begin their own lethal version of the Globe Games, the Doctor and Emma must find out what's really going on. But the Doctor is captured and forced to take part in the Sontaran Games. Can even a Time Lord survive this deadly contest?
Regular Characters
Tenth Doctor
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
The Sontarans
Tenth Doctor
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
The Sontarans
Notes
- The Sontaran Games was released as part of the Quick Reads scheme, which is designed to encourage more people to read, in particular adult learners. It was the fourth Doctor Who book to be released after the success of I Am a Dalek in 2006, Made of Steel in 2007, and Revenge of the Judoon in 2008.
- The Sontaran Games is the first book in the New Series Adventures to feature old enemies the Sontarans, who had been re-introduced to the television series in The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky in 2008.
Later the same year, The Sarah Jane Adventures saw the debut of Commander Kaagh in The Last Sontaran. The character subsequently re-appeared in the final story of the season, Enemy of the Bane.
Doctor Who: Judgement of the Judoon
by Colin Brake
- UK
- Hardback
- BBC Books
- April 2009
- Book Number: 31
Back Cover Blurb
Elvis the King Spaceport has grown into the sprawling city-state of New Memphis — an urban jungle, where organized crime is rife. But the launch of the new Terminal 13 hasn't been as smooth as expected. And things are about to get worse...
When the Doctor arrives, he finds the whole terminal locked down. The notorious Invisible Assassin is at work again, and the Judoon troopers sent to catch him will stop at nothing to complete their mission.
With the assassin loose on the mean streets of New Memphis, the Doctor is forced into a strange alliance. Together with teenage private eye Nikki and a ruthless Judoon Commander, the Doctor soon discovers that things are even more complicated — and dangerous — than he first thought...
Regular Characters
Tenth Doctor
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
The Judoon
Tenth Doctor
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
The Judoon
Notes
- Judgement of the Judoon is Colin Brake's second novel for the New Series Adventures, having previously been responsible for writing 2006's The Price of Paradise. He has also contributed four titles to the Decide Your Destiny range of Doctor Who game books.
- Introduced into the television series in the 2007 episode Smith and Jones, the Judoon went on to appear in The Stolen Earth the following year, and were also selected as the villains to appear in that year's Doctor Who book in the Quick Range series, Terrance Dicks' Revenge of the Judoon, which featured the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones.
- Judgement of the Judoon was released at the same time as The Slitheen Excursion and Prisoner of the Daleks.
Doctor Who: The Slitheen Excursion
by Simon Guerrier
- UK
- Hardback
- BBC Books
- April 2009
- Book Number: 32
Back Cover Blurb
1500BC — King Actaeus and his subjects live in mortal fear of the awesome gods who have come to visit their kingdom in ancient Greece. Except the Doctor, visiting with university student June, knows they're not gods at all. They're aliens.
For the aliens, it's the perfect holiday — they get to tour the sights of a primitive planet and even take part in local customs. Like gladiatorial games, or hunting down and killing humans who won't be missed.
With June's enthusiastic help, the Doctor soon meets the travel agents behind this deadly package holiday company — his old enemies the Slitheen. But can he bring the Slitheen excursion to an end without endangering more lives? And how are events in ancient Greece linked to a modern-day alien plot to destroy what's left of the Parthenon?
Regular Characters
Tenth Doctor
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
The Slitheen
Tenth Doctor
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
The Slitheen
Notes
- The Slitheen Excursion is Simon Guerrier's second novel for the New Series Adventures, having previously been responsible for writing 2007's The Pirate Loop.
- The Slitheen Excursion is the second book in the New Series Adventures range to feature everyone's favourite farting aliens, who had previously appeared in The Monsters Inside, one of the first set of Ninth Doctor books which were published in May 2005.
- The Slitheen Excursion was released at the same time as Judgement of the Judoon and Prisoner of the Daleks.
Doctor Who: Prisoner of the Daleks
by Trevor Baxendale
- UK
- Hardback
- BBC Books
- April 2009
- Book Number: 32
Back Cover Blurb
The Daleks are advancing, their empire constantly expanding in to Earth's space. The Earth forces are resisting the Daleks in every way they can. But the battles rage on across countless solar systems. And now the future of our galaxy hangs in the balance...
The Doctor finds himself stranded on board a starship near the frontline with a group of ruthless bounty hunters. Earth Command will pay them for every Dalek they kill, every eye stalk they bring back as proof. With the Doctor's help, the bounty hunters achieve the ultimate prize: a Dalek prisoner — intact, powerless, and ready for interrogation.
But where the Daleks are involved, nothing is what it seems, and no one is safe. Before long the tables will be turned, and how will the Doctor survive when he becomes a prisoner of the Daleks?
Regular Characters
Tenth Doctor
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
The Daleks
Tenth Doctor
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
The Daleks
Notes
- Prisoner of the Daleks is Trevor Baxendale's second novel for the New Series Adventures, having previously been responsible for writing 2007's Wishing Well, and his seventh Doctor Who novel overall, having written four books in the Eighth Doctor Adventures series and one for the Previous Doctor Adventures.
- Somewhat surprisingly, Prisoner of the Daleks was the first book to feature the Daleks since Gareth Roberts' I Am a Dalek, which had been published as part of the Quick Reads series in 2006. And the last full-length novel to feature them was John Peel's appalling Legacy of the Daleks, which was published as part of the Eighth Doctor Adventures range way back in 1998.
- Prisoner of the Daleks was released at the same time as Judgement of the Judoon and The Slitheen Excursion.
