Category Archives: Doctor Who

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Revenge of the Cybermen is not one of my favourite Doctor Who stories. It has its charms, but I think it’s quite bland, and it makes the Cybermen just feel like generic enemy aliens. It might seem odd that I … Continue reading →

I bought this graphic novel knowing nothing about it other than that the front cover looked cool. Based on that piece of art, I thought it was about Rose Tyler becoming corrupted by the power of the Bad Wolf and … Continue reading →

The Time Lord Victorious series is an interesting project: it’s a multi-media Doctor Who story arc which encompasses multiple incarnations of the Doctor and is told through books, comics, audio dramas and, probably, other formats as well. It’s really intriguing. … Continue reading →