BBC New Series Adventures

The BBC New Series Adventures is a banner under which the series of novels published by BBC Books featuring the Ninth , Tenth and Eleventh 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 are referred to as Gallifreyan numbers by fans. The recurring patterns in the symbols suggest that Time Lords count in base seven, although a reucrring error means that the symbol for 13 is accidentally replaced by the symbol for 11 every time it should appear.

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.

The Tenth Doctor also appears in The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith, a release in the BBC The Sarah Jane Adventures novelisations line. Although the cover art matches the format of the NSA line, the book, published by Penguin Character Books, is not considered part of the New Series Adventures.

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	ISBN 978-1846076398
The Slitheen Excursion	Simon Guerrier	ISBN 978-1846076404
Prisoner of the Daleks	Trevor Baxendale	ISBN 978-1846076411
The Taking of Chelsea 426	David Llewellyn	ISBN 978-1846077586	File:Chelsea 426.jpg
The Krillitane Storm	Christopher Cooper	ISBN 978-1846077616	File:Krillitaine Storm.jpg
Autonomy	Daniel Blythe	ISBN 978-1846077593	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

Audio books

Title	Author	Narrator	ISBN	Image
Pest Control	Peter Anghelides	David Tennant	ISBN 978-1-405-67819-3
The Forever Trap	Dan Abnett	Catherine Tate	ISBN 978-1-408-40678-6
The Nemonite Invasion	David Roden	Catherine Tate	ISBN 978-1-408-40679-3
The Rising Night	Scott Handcock	Michelle Ryan	ISBN 978-1408409381
The Day of the Troll	Simon Messingham	David Tennant	ISBN 978-1408409398
The Last Voyage	Dan Abnett	David Tennant	ISBN 978-1-408-40940-2

Future releases

These are all the announced future releases:

Quick Reads

Title	Author	ISBN	Image
Code of the Krillitanes sched. March 2010	Justin Richards	ISBN TBA

Audio books

All upcoming audio books listed below will feature the Eleventh Doctor

Title	Author	Narrator	ISBN	Image
The Hounds of Artemis	James Goss	Unknown	ISBN 978-1-408-42746-X	]
The Runaway Train	Oli Smith	Unknown	ISBN 978-1-408-42747-8

Eleventh Doctor novels

The first original novels featuring the Eleventh Doctor are scheduled for release in April 2010.

Title	Author	ISBN	Image
Apollo 23	Justin Richards	978-1-84607-200-X
Night of the Humans	David Llewellyn	978-1-84607-969-1
The Forgotten Army	Brian Minchin	978-1-84607-987-X
Adorable Illusion	Gary Russell
Nuclear Time	Oli Smith
The King's Dragon	Una McCormack

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 are Gallifreyan numbers. The recurring patterns in the symbols suggest that Time Lords count in base seven. However, the numerals for 11 and 13 are the same, suggesting an error. It is not known as yet whether the upcoming Eleventh Doctor novels, which will be subject to a cover redesign in order to incorporate the new series logo, will retain this numbering feature.

External Links

• Doctor Who Online - Merchandise Guide - BBC New Series Books