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The BBC New Series Adventures is a banner under which the series of novels published by BBC Books featuring the Ninth and Tenth Doctors are collected.

Ninth Doctor

These novels are a series published by BBC Books and are stories featuring the Ninth Doctor. With the revival of the television series, BBC Books ended the Eighth Doctor Adventures line to print the Ninth Doctor Adventures.

The are the only spin-off books to have had content referenced from them in the series as in the episode Boom Town, Rose makes a reference to her and the Doctor's trip to the Justicia system. This took place in The Monsters Inside. The first three novels also contain Bad Wolf references in common with the 2005 television series, and Winner Takes All also features the recurring characters Mickey Smith and Jackie Tyler.

The first three novels probably take place between World War Three and The Empty Child, and the latter three (which feature Captain Jack) between The Doctor Dances and Boom Town. They can be read in any order.

This line of novels continued to be issued following Christopher Eccleston's departure from the series until the end of 2005, after which the series continued, featuring the Tenth Doctor in 2006.

List of novels featuring the Ninth Doctor

Title	Author	ISBN
The Clockwise Man	Justin Richards	ISBN 0-563-48628-7
The Monsters Inside	Stephen Cole	ISBN 0-563-48629-5
Winner Takes All	Jacqueline Rayner	ISBN 0-563-48627-9
The Deviant Strain	Justin Richards	ISBN 0-563-48637-6
Only Human	Gareth Roberts	ISBN 0-563-48639-2
The Stealers of Dreams	Steve Lyons	ISBN 0-563-48638-4

Rain of Terror by Mike Tucker was originally listed in the second batch of three novels, but was replaced by The Stealers of Dreams a few days later without explanation.

Notes

Behind the chapter numbers in the books are symbols similar to the "Gallifreyan writing" seen in the series. The same symbols appear on the spines, and Gallifreyan numbers. The recurring patterns in the symbols suggest that Time Lords count in base seven.

Tenth Doctor

These novels are a series of published by BBC Books and are stories featuring the Tenth Doctor. Following the success of the six novels published in 2006 featuring the Doctor and Rose, followed by more books published in 2007 and 2008 featuring Martha Jones as companion. Martha continued to appear in prose adventures until well after her departure from the series. Her successor, Donna Noble, first appeared in Pest Control, a made-for-audio adventure published by BBC Audio as part of the Tenth Doctor Adventures line; the first printed novels featuring her were released in the Autumn of 2008, however she only appeared in a few of the books before a series of novels featuring the Doctor travelling solo began with The Eyeless and continued into September 2009. So far all releases announced for 2009 also follow the theme of featuring classic monsters and villains from the TV series, including Daleks, Sontarans (twice), and the Nestene Consciousness.

The line also includes an ongoing series of shorter novellas under the banner "Quick Reads". Launched in 2006, this is a BBC initiative to promote literacy, and the second release in the series, Made of Steel, marked the "revived franchise" debut of longtime Doctor Who novelist and scriptwriter Terrance Dicks. A series of made-for-audio stories, read by actors David Tennant and Catherine Tate, have also been released under the TDA banner. So far, the audio books have continued to feature Donna Noble, despite her no longer being featured in the print novels.

All of the Tenth Doctor adventures (except for the Quick Reads series) have been released as abridged audio books. The first three were read by David Tennant. After that, other popular actors replaced Tennant, who did not reappear as narrator until the made-for-audio stories. The other actors include Freema Agyeman, Georgia Moffat, Anthony Head and Adjoa Andoh.

List of novels featuring the Tenth Doctor

Title	Author	ISBN	Image
The Stone Rose	Jacqueline Rayner	ISBN 0-563-48643-0
The Feast of the Drowned	Stephen Cole	ISBN 0-563-48644-9
The Resurrection Casket	Justin Richards	ISBN 0-563-48642-2
The Nightmare of Black Island	Mike Tucker	ISBN 0-563-48650-3
The Art of Destruction	Stephen Cole	ISBN 0-563-48651-1
The Price of Paradise	Colin Brake	ISBN 0-563-48652-X
Sting of the Zygons	Stephen Cole	ISBN 1-84607-225-5
The Last Dodo	Jacqueline Rayner	ISBN 1-84607-224-3
Wooden Heart	Martin Day	ISBN 1-84607-226-3
Forever Autumn	Mark Morris	ISBN 1-84607-270-0
Sick Building	Paul Magrs	ISBN 1-84607-269-7
Wetworld	Mark Michalowski	ISBN 1-84607-271-9
Wishing Well	Trevor Baxendale	ISBN 1-84607-348-0
The Pirate Loop	Simon Guerrier	ISBN 1-84607-347-2
Peacemaker	James Swallow	ISBN 1-84607-349-9
Martha in the Mirror	Justin Richards	ISBN 978-1-8460-7349-6
Snowglobe 7	Mike Tucker	ISBN 978-1-846-07421-9
The Many Hands	Dale Smith	ISBN 978-1-846-07422-6
Ghosts of India	Mark Morris	ISBN 978-1846075599
The Doctor Trap	Simon Messingham	ISBN 978-1846075582
Shining Darkness	Mark Michalowski	ISBN 978-1846075575	File:Shining-darkenss.jpg
Beautiful Chaos	Gary Russell	ISBN 978-1846075636
The Eyeless	Lance Parkin	ISBN 978-1846075629	File:The Eyless.jpg
The Story of Martha	Dan Abnett, David Roden, Steve Lockley Paul Lewis, Robert Shearman, Simon Jowett	ISBN 978-1846075612
Judgement of the Judoon	Colin Brake
The Slitheen Excursion	Simon Guerrier
Prisoner of the Daleks	Trevor Baxendale
The Taking of Chelsea 426	David Llewellyn	sched. September 2009	File:Chelsea 426.jpg
The Krillitane Storm	Christopher Cooper	sched. September 2009	File:Krillitaine Storm.jpg
Autonomy	Daniel Blythe	sched. September 2009	File:Autonomy.jpg

Quick Reads

Title	Author	ISBN	Image
I am a Dalek	Gareth Roberts	ISBN 0-563-48648-1
Made of Steel	Terrance Dicks	ISBN 978-1-846-07204-8
Revenge of the Judoon	Terrance Dicks	ISBN 1-84607-372-3
The Sontaran Games	Jacqueline Rayner	ISBN 1-84607-643-9