Category Archives: Doctor Who

Doctor Who: Endgame

This is this first volume of the Eighth Doctor’s Doctor Who Magazine comic adventures, and it’s something I was delighted to get my hands on recently (as it’s kind of rare). I really love the Eighth Doctor’s strange and varied … Continue reading

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Doctor Who: 73 Yards by Scott Handcock

73 Yards was quite possibly my favourite episode of the Fifteenth Doctor’s era of Doctor Who – which is ironic, since he’s barely in it. Much as I loved it though, it was one that I really hoped would receive … Continue reading

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Doctor Who: White Darkness by David A. McIntee

The fifteenth book in the Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures novel is a perfectly self-contained outing for the Seventh Doctor, Ace, and Bernice, but one that still manages to explore fairly unique territory for the franchise. It’s one of the … Continue reading

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Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time by Paul Cornell

Twice Upon a Time is possibly my favourite Doctor Who Christmas special, and I think it’s one of the best episodes overall. I was quite surprised to see it get a novelisation, when it is so heavily tied to the … Continue reading

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Doctor Who: Liberation of the Daleks by Alan Barnes

The advent of the Fourteenth Doctor was very exciting to me as a Doctor Who fan – a chance to revisit a previous incarnation of the Doctor, but reimagine them as older, wiser, and more emotionally mature. It’s a shame … Continue reading

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Doctor Who: Lucifer Rising by Jim Mortimore and Andy Lane

This is the fourteenth of the Virgin Doctor Who New Adventures, and what I like about it is that it does exactly what I wanted the previous novel, Devious, to do. Specifically, I’m talking about addressing the tensions between the … Continue reading

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Doctor Who: The Betrothal of Sontar

This graphic novel collects together several comic adventures of the Tenth Doctor and Rose that were originally published in Doctor Who magazine between 2006 and 2007. It’s quite a nostalgic collection for me, because I read most of them when … Continue reading

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Doctor Who: Deceit by Peter Darvill-Evans

The thirteenth of the Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures novels is quite exciting for a number of reasons. For one thing, it sees the return of Ace, and after the circumstances of their departure in Love & War, I was … Continue reading

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Doctor Who and The Invasion from Space by J. L. Morrissey

This novel is something of an historic milestone, because it’s the first ever unique Doctor Who novel. There had been novelisations, comics, and short stories, but this was the first novel – and the first of many too, as there … Continue reading

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Doctor Who: The Day She Saved the Doctor

Four female authors write a Doctor Who story each, and each one sees a different female character in the Doctor Who universe stepping up to save the Doctor at some point. Published to mark the occasion of the first female … Continue reading

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