Target Books was a publisher of books, who focused on novelisations of episodes of Doctor Who (PROSE: Fanboys) and educational books. (AUDIO: The Kingmaker)
- You may be looking for the real world publisher.
They published 150 Doctor Who novelisations, (PROSE: Bafflement and Devotion) including State of Decay and Planet of the Spiders. (PROSE: Fanboys)
History
The Doctor's universe
While the Fourth Doctor worked for UNIT, he wrote a series of educational children's books. It was intended to be called The Doctor, Who Discovers... but the publisher misprinted the covers as Doctor Who Discovers. (AUDIO: The Kingmaker)
By 1981, Target Novels were sold in WHSmith's. David and Chris regularly bought these novels. (PROSE: Fanboys)
The Eighth Doctor found a copy of a Target novel, Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks, inside Iris Wildthyme's TARDIS, which he claimed contradicted another title in the series. (PROSE: Bafflement and Devotion)
Godfrey Porter's world
"The Thief of Sherwood" was a Target novel based upon the television story "The Outlaws". (PROSE: The Thief of Sherwood)
Behind the scenes
Information from invalid stories
The Complete Guide to Doctor Who?
The editor of Target Books once told two of his writers to write 128 pages and then simply stop. (NOTVALID: The Complete Guide to Doctor Who?)