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TV writer Paul Cornell's second standalone science fiction novel. |
The second Benny New Adventure perhaps suffers from being too obviously a re-worked Dr Who story, but Justin Richards delivers a good yarn. |
Often overshadowed by Miles' subsequent Benny book (Dead Romance), Down is a great book in its own right. |
Now a writer on the new Dr Who TV series, this Benny New Adventure was Matt Jones' second book. It is much more the style of someone who went on to work on Shameless and Queer as Folk than was his debut. |
Gareth "The Shakespeare Code" Roberts' Quick Read. |
Simon Bucher-Jones at his best, this Benny New Adventure combines the series' themes of memory and identity in a dramatic and funny (think Hitch-Hikers') story |
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The first story with Martha Jones to be available, this is former script editor Terrance Dicks' contribution to the Quick Reads series. |
Dreams of Empire is exactly what you would expect from a Justin Richards novel: a taut thriller with a twist. |
The grandfather of Dr Who non-fiction books, Jean-Marc L'Officier's programme guide is a landmark publication, even if it is grossly out-of-date now. This is Volume 1 of 2. |
Volume 2 of The Programme Guide. |
Novelisation of script editor Eric Saward's 1985 radio story. Given the length of the radio version, the novelisation expands greatly on the story. |
Paul Cornell's debut standalone novel portrays a post-apocalyptic Earth with a plot exploring ideas in Christianity and paganism. |
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This is the first non-Who novel by Daniel Blythe—well-worth reading and much better than his New Adventures. |
Relative Dementias was Mark Michalowski's debut, a 7th Doctor/Ace novel for the BBC. |
The sequel to "Cat's Cradle: Warhead", "Warlock" explores drugs and vivisection in another Cartmel classic. |
Lance Parkin turns his hand to non-fiction with this guide to Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series (co-written with Mark Jones). |
A Cornell curio—I think this was his first non-Who fiction book, a novelisation of a short-lived telefantasy show |
Mad Dogs and Englishmen is completely mad: in other words, a classic Paul Magrs book! |
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A cracking collection of short fiction by TV writers Russell T. Davies, Steven Moffat and Gareth Roberts, and Dalek voice actor Nicholas Briggs. |
The final Past Doctor Adventure by former script editor Andrew Cartmel. |
A key Benny New Adventure, Where Angels Fear was written by the line's editors Rebecca Levene and Simon Winstone, the latter now a script editor on the TV series. |
Another generic Dave Stone Benny novel—this one spoofs Agatha Christie along the way. |
A brilliant Benny book... apart from Jim Mortimore's usual problem that it doesn't really have an ending. Think The Da Vinci Code with dinosaurs. |
Dave Stone came to write several Benny New Adventures: Oblivion plays with ideas of parallel universes, but mostly falls back on the familiar Stone spiel. |
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Gareth "The Shakespeare Code" Roberts' debut novel: the 7th Doctor tackles transexual giant tortoises. Really. |
The revised version of the unofficial guide to The Simpsons by TV Who's Gareth Roberts and Gary Russell. |
Jim Mortimore's Cracker novelisation. |
Daniel Blythe began to find his feet with his second New Adventure. |
The last of Virgin's Decalog series dropped the Dr Who connection, but includes standalone stories by Stephen Baxter and Stephen Marley, and a lovely Benny short by Lawrence Miles. |
An oddity this, part of a brief make-your-own-adventure Dr Who series, by Philip "Vengeance on Varos" Martin |
For Doctor Who books at the other end of the price
range, check out my listing/price guide to
some rarer Who books here...