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'''Quick Reads''' is a literacy organisation which works with book publishers to provide low-cost, low-page count books to encourage people to read. A major focus of their outreach are adult readers who need to improve their literacy skills. [[BBC Books]] is one of the non-profit's partners. Beginning in [[2006]], this relationship produced original ''[[Doctor Who]]'' fiction. | '''Quick Reads''' is a literacy organisation which works with book publishers to provide low-cost, low-page count books to encourage people to read. A major focus of their outreach are adult readers who need to improve their literacy skills. [[BBC Books]] is one of the non-profit's partners. Beginning in [[2006]], this relationship produced original ''[[Doctor Who]]'' fiction. | ||
Each Quick Reads release is approximately 100 pages long, and features a storyline roughly equivalent to a standard 45-minute episode of the series. | |||
The [[2007]] release, ''[[Made of Steel]]'' was notable for being the first piece of original fiction based upon the | During the [[David Tennant]] years, one [[Tenth Doctor]] Quick Reads novella was released each year, including the "transition" year of 2010. No Quick Reads was issued in [[2011]], but the series resumed in [[2012]] with the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. | ||
The [[2007]] release, ''[[Made of Steel]]'' was notable for being the first piece of original fiction based upon the revival series to be written by [[Terrance Dicks]], a script editor and writer for the original TV series and a prolific writer of ''Doctor Who'' prose fiction. Dicks went on to write a [[Invasion of the Bane (novelisation)|novelisation]] for ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' and the 2008 Quick Reads installment. | |||
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* [http://www.drwho-online.co.uk/guides/merchandise/books/newseries/ The Doctor Who Online Merchandise Guide - BBC Books - Quick Reads] | * [http://www.drwho-online.co.uk/guides/merchandise/books/newseries/ The Doctor Who Online Merchandise Guide - BBC Books - Quick Reads] | ||
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[[Category:Prose fiction overviews]] | [[Category:Prose fiction overviews]] | ||
