Doctor Who: The Awakening by Eric Pringle.  PB, 144 pages, Target Books, 1985.

The (Fifth) Doctor promised Tegan a visit to her grandfather, but when they get there Tegan suspects there's been a mistake in the timing...  The Doctor swears that the timing is correct, and then promply rushes out of the TARDIS to rescue a stranger.  And what's up with ( Read more... )

Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Black Island by Mike Tucker.  HC, 250 pages, BBC Books, 2006.

Rose awakens from a nightmare only to find that the TARDIS has landed in her nightmare, and terrible creatures are roaming the woods at night.  There's something going wrong in this formerly serene batch of Wales, and the lighthouse, the priory, and the ( Read more... )

Doctor Who: Agent Provocateur written by Gary Russell, art by Nick Roche, Jose Maria Berdy, Stefano Martino, and Mirco Pierfederici.  TPB, 136 pages, IDW Publishing, 2008.

There's not too much out there about this book, most likely because it was an American exclusive.  In this six-part adventure, the Doctor and Martha search for the best chocolate ( Read more... )

( Fifth Doctor Novelizations, or How Five Became One of My Doctors )

Doctor Who: The Clockwise Man by Justin Richards.  HC, 253 pages, BBC Books, 2005.

Ninth Doctor and Rose go to 1920s London for a look at the Exhibition, stumble across an attempted murder, and well, things just go downhill from there.  Once again things are not as they seem, and something keeps ticking in a room with no clocks...

( Spoilers! )

Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen by Malcolm Kohll.  PB, 142 pages, Target Books, 1991 (reprint of 1989 edition).

This Target novelization has the Seventh Doctor and Mel stopped at a tollbooth in space, where the Doctor (typically) can't find any cash.  Luckily, they win a free vacation to 1950s Disneyland on Planet Earth and thus escape the toll ( Read more... )

Doctor Who: The Last Dodo by Jacqueline Rayner.  HC, 248 pages, BBC Books, 2007.

Martha asks the Doctor to show her one of the famously extinct dodo birds, but the TARDIS homing device lands them in the near future instead, in a strange extinct species museum.  Having mysteriously landed in the very section were thefts have been occuring, the Doctor ( Read more... )

Doctor Who: The Stone Rose by Jacqueline Rayner.  HC, 249 pages, BBC Books, 2006.

Mickey's discovered an ancient statue of Rose in the British Museum, and he's eager to show Jackie, Rose, and the Doctor.  Then the Doctor and Rose nip off to ancient Rome, since, after all, she hasn't posed for it yet.  While there they meet a father looking for his ( Read more... )

Doctor Who: Winner Takes All by Jacqueline Rayner.  HC, 245 pages, BBC Books, 2005.

Picked this one up first because it involves Mickey and Jackie as well as Rose and the Ninth Doctor.  Reading it made me curiously nostalgic for the first season; I'd forgotten how much I just plain liked Nine and the gang.  Mickey gets to help save the world when ( Read more... )

Right so some of you probably remember how I keep starting the 50 book challenge (or in my case the 50 review challenge) but always end up getting distracted and stopping.  And frankly, after the year I had last year, I wasn't planning to take up any reading or reviewing challenges this year. But then I bought a lot of Doctor Who books.  As in, ( Read more... )