SJA novelisations

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The Sarah Jane Adventures novelisations are a series of prose adaptations of select episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures. The books carry the BBC logo (and later, the Doctor Who logo) but are published by Penguin Character Books, not BBC Books. As of late 2010, they are the only form of prose SJA fiction offered; there has yet to be an original prose story based upon the show.

They effectively revive a tradition associated with Doctor Who. During — and slightly beyond — the original run of Doctor Who, Target Books and a few other companies offered a regular stream of adaptations of past Doctor Who stories. Since the BBC Wales version of Doctor Who has never generated novelisations, these SJA adaptations are the first Doctor Who universe novelisations in a regular series of adaptations since 1994's The Evil of the Daleks.

The complete first season of The Sarah Jane Adventures has been novelised, along with the first two stories of Series 2. To date only a single Series 3 story, featuring the Tenth Doctor, has been adapted. Two Series 4 novelisations were given a publication date of 4th November 2010 and cover art was released. However, it was revealed in September 2010 that these books would instead only be offered as e-books, though their publication date would be unaffected by the change of medium.

Next to the Penguin Character Novelisations, there are four photo novelisations of the Sarah Jane Adventures, which are published Pearson.

Title Author ISBN Original TV story Image
Invasion of the Bane Terrance Dicks ISBN 978-1-4059-0397-4 TV: Invasion of the Bane InvasionBaneNovel.jpg
Revenge of the Slitheen Rupert Laight ISBN 978-1-4059-0398-1 TV: Revenge of the Slitheen RevengeSlitheenNovel.jpg
Eye of the Gorgon Phil Ford ISBN 978-1-4059-0399-8 TV: Eye of the Gorgon EyeGorgonNovel.jpg
Warriors of Kudlak Gary Russell ISBN 978-1-4059-0400-1 TV: Warriors of Kudlak WarriorsKudlakNovel.jpg
Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? Rupert Laight ISBN 978-1-4059-0507-7 TV: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? Whatever happened to SJ novelisation.jpg
The Lost Boy Gary Russell ISBN 978-1-4059-0506-0 TV: The Lost Boy LostBoynovel.jpg
The Last Sontaran Gary Russell ISBN 978-1-4059-0509-1 TV: The Last Sontaran LastSontaranBook.jpg
The Day of the Clown Phil Ford ISBN 978-1-4059-0510-7 TV: The Day of the Clown DayoftheClownnovel.jpg
The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith Gareth Roberts ISBN 978-1-4059-0628-9 TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith Books-sjswedding.jpg

E-books

Title Author Original TV story Image
The Nightmare Man Joseph Lidster TV: The Nightmare Man NightmareMannovel.jpg
Death of the Doctor Gary Russell TV: Death of the Doctor DeathoftheDoctornovel.jpg

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