Artwork and details revealed for Doctor Who Target novels
The Doctor Who Target range is expanding with four new titles publishing on 14th July 2022, each with newly commissioned cover artwork by Anthony Dry. These four new novelisations of Doctor Who stories are great adventures to lose your in space and time, expand or even start your very own Target novel collection.
‘Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood’ by David Fisher
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The Doctor is delighted when his quest for the Key to Time leads him to his favourite planet, Earth. But his friends are less enchanted: Romana is nearly lured to her death by a sinister apparition, and K9 is all but destroyed by a belligerent boulder with the power to move – and a thirst for blood.
An ancient stone circle becomes a battleground as the Doctor must outwit the deadliest alien criminal this side of hyperspace – and her bloodthirsty silicon servants…
‘Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara’ by David Fisher
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The Doctor and Romana’s search for the fourth segment of the all-powerful Key to Time leads them to the planet Tara, where courtly intrigue and romantic pageantry employ the most sophisticated technology.
Within hours of arriving, Romana is mistaken for a powerful princess and the Doctor forced to dally with robotic royalty – and both are quickly embroiled in the scheming ambitions of the wicked Count Grendel. Finding the segment of the Key is easy enough, but escaping with it in one piece will prove an altogether more colourful affair…
David Fisher was approached by script editor Anthony Read to write for Doctor Who and the result was the 100th story, THE STONES OF BLOOD, which transmitted in 1978. Fisher first met Read when the latter was setting up a series called THE TROUBLESHOOTERS in 1965. Fisher went on to write for ORLANDO (1967), DIXON OF DOCK GREEN (1969), SUTHERLAND’S LAW (1973) and GENERAL HOSPITAL (1977). As well as THE STONES OF BLOOD, Fisher also contributed THE ANDROIDS OF TARA, THE CREATURE FROM THE PIT and THE LEISURE HIVE to Doctor Who. The first two stories were novelised by Terrance Dicks, but Fisher decided to pen the latter two himself for the Target range.
Following his work on Doctor Who, Fisher wrote for HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR (1980), HAMMER HOUSE OF MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE (1984) and collaborated with Read on a number of historical books with subjects including World War Two espionage, the Nazi persecution of Jews and the Nazi/Soviet pact of the early 1940s.
‘Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii’ by James Moran
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It is AD 79, and the TARDIS lands in Pompeii on the eve of the town’s destruction. Mount Vesuvius is ready to erupt and bury its surroundings in molten lava, just as history dictates. Or is it?
The Doctor and Donna find that Pompeii is home to impossible things: circuits made of stone, soothsayers who read minds and fiery giants made of burning rock. From a lair deep in the volcano, these creatures plot the end of humanity – and the Doctor soon finds he has no way to win…
James Moran is a British screenwriter for television and film, who wrote the horror-comedy SEVERANCE. He works in the horror, comedy, science-fiction, historical fiction and spy thriller genres.
‘Doctor Who: The Eaters of Light’ by Rona Munro
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The Doctor takes Bill and Nardole back to 2nd century Scotland to learn the fate of the ‘lost’ Ninth Legion of the Imperial Roman Army. 5,000 soldiers vanished without explanation – how?
The search for the truth leads the Doctor and his friends into a deadly mystery. Who is the Guardian of the Gate? What nightmare creature roams the wildlands, darkening the sky and destroying all in its path? A threat from another dimension has been unleashed on the Earth, and only a terrible sacrifice can put things right…
Rona Munro was born in Aberdeen and has written extensively for stage, film, radio and television. Her breakthrough play BOLD GIRLS, won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. As the writer of SURVIVAL and THE EATERS OF LIGHT she is the first (and only) writer of stories for both the classic 1963-1989 series of Doctor Who and the 2005 revived series.
All these Target novels will be released on July 14th 2022.