Target Novel Review: The Edge of Destruction
In a final bid to regain control of the Tardis’s faulty control system the Doctor is driven to experiment with a dangerous untried combination. With a violent explosion the TARDIS blacks out and the crew find themselves trapped inside. A simple technical fault? Continue Reading
Book Review: Doctor Who in An Exciting Adventure With The Daleks by David Whitaker
This is DOCTOR WHO’s first exciting adventure – with the DALEKS! Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright travel with the mysterious DOCTOR WHO and his grand-daughter, Susan, to the planet of Skaro in the space-time machine, Tardis. There they strive to Continue Reading
Book Review: The Secret Lives of Monsters by Justin Richards
Ignorance is not bliss. It is the alien invader’s greatest advantage. Tales of unearthly beings have long circulated among us, from legends of intelligent life on Earth before Homo Sapiens to conspiracy theories about what really happened at the Battle Continue Reading
Target Novel Review: Doctor Who and An Unearthly Child by Terrance Dicks
A strange girl who knows far more than she should about the past – and the future… Two worried teachers whose curiosity leads them to a deserted junk yard, an extraordinary police box and a mysterious traveller known only as Continue Reading
Book Review: Silhouette by Justin Richards
“Vastra and Strax and Jenny? Oh no, we don’t need to bother them. Trust me.” Marlowe Hapworth is found dead in his locked study, killed by an unknown assailant. This is a case for the Great Detective, Madame Vastra. Rick Continue Reading
Book Review: The Crawling Terror by Mike Tucker
“Well, I doubt you’ll ever see a bigger insect.” Gabby Nichols is putting her son to bed when she hears her daughter cry out. ‘Mummy there’s a daddy longlegs in my room!’ Then the screaming starts. Kevin Alperton is on Continue Reading
Book Review: The Blood Cell by James Goss
“Release the Doctor - or the killing will start.” An asteroid in the furthest reaches of space - the most secure prison for the most dangerous of criminals. The Governor is responsible for the worst fraudsters and the cruellest murderers. Continue Reading
New Adventures Retrospective: Timewyrm Genesys by John Peel
Mesopotamia - the cradle of civilization. In the fertile crescent of land on the banks of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, mankind is turning from hunter-gatherer into farmer, and from farmer into city-dweller. Gilgamesh, the first hero-king, rules the city Continue Reading
Book Review: Wallowing in Our Own Weltschmerz
Doctor Who is now in its fifty-first year and enjoying its 12th 13th 14th latest of many actors to take on the lead role. Every era is different, each actor brings their own style to the role, each producer and Continue Reading
Book Review: Robert Holmes - A Life in Words by Richard Molesworth
Those who know the work of scriptwriter Robert Holmes will not be at all surprised by the effusive and expansive appreciation in which he is held today by his colleagues, peers, and contemporaries. Whether writing scripts for the far-flung fantasies Continue Reading
Book Review: Engines of War by George Mann
“The death of billions is as nothing to us Doctor, if it helps defeat the Daleks.” The Great Time War has raged for centuries, ravaging the universe. Scores of human colony planets are now overrun by Dalek occupation forces. A Continue Reading
Book Review: Script Doctor by Andrew Cartmel
The Sylvester McCoy era has become one of the most well-documented periods of Doctor Who’s history. A lot of ground has been covered by Sophie Aldred and Mike Tucker’s memoir Ace!, by DWM interviews, convention panels, the US TV documentary Continue Reading
Book Review: Wit, Wisdom and Timey-Wimey Stuff
“All of time and space. All things that ever happened or ever will. Where do you want to start?” From a junkyard in Totter’s Lane to the fields of Trenzalore, the last of the Time Lords has navigated the past, Continue Reading
Book Review: Shada by Gareth Roberts
Shada has been elusive since it failed to show up on our screens in early 1980. It needs little introduction, if you’re reading this site you already know it was a six part story by Douglas Adams that fell foul Continue Reading
Book Review: The Scales Of Injustice By Gary Russell
The novels reprints of the last couple of years from BBC books has meant that a small but seemingly ever growing number of novels from the wilderness years are coming into print again at last. One of the novels published Continue Reading
Book Review: Harvest of Time by Alastair Reynolds
The first new third Doctor novel released since 2005, Harvest Of Time was the second new novel featuring a past Doctor released as part of last year’s celebrations of Doctor Who’s fiftieth anniversary year. Written by noted UK science fiction Continue Reading









