For the fiftieth anniversary BBC Books are planning a large number of releases with details so far emerging (on the Bookseller website) for January / February, a massive set of releases in March (all featured in the picture showing the new artwork) and some new titles for April.
The news story doesn’t give everything away but I have managed to do some digging…
January / February Releases
A 31st January re-release for Shada which seems rather soon as it is not long out anyway but is worth a read and is the Douglas Adams script with polishing from Gareth Roberts. Valentine’s day (February 14th !) sees a quikc read title The Silurian Gift by Mike Tucker.
March Releases
March the 7th treats us to a novel for each Doctor! These all have new covers as shown above (and taken from the @domcooperdesign feed) and the full list is:
- Ten Little Aliens by Stephen Cole
- Dreams of Empire by Justin Richards
- Last of the Gaderene by Mark Gatiss
- Festival of Death by Jonathan Morris
- Fear of the Dark by Trevor Baxendale
- Players by Terrance Dicks
- Remembrance of the Daleks by Ben Aaronovitch
- Earthworld by Jacqueline Rayner
- Only Human by Gareth Roberts
- Beautiful Chaos by Gary Russell
- The Silent Stars go by by Dan Abnett.
April Releases
Now we get some new titles, including one from Nick himself! The details are:
- Plague of the Cybermen by Justin Richards
- Dalek Generation by Nicholas Briggs
- Shroud of Sorrow by Tommy Donbavand.
Red Rocket Rising 
Somewhat amazingly, given how few of the novels I actually own, I somehow manage to own copies of almost all of those reissues already. Still, there are some interesting titles there (and a few I’m surprised to see picked) and I’ll be glad of a chance to pick up Festival of Death!
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Whereas all I have read is Remembrance of the Daleks. I don’t know if I will get any of these – any recommendations?
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The only really easy recommendation I can make from that list is The Last of the Gadarene – Mark Gatiss really captures the spirit and style of the Third Doctor’s era nicely. I remember Only Human doing a pretty good job of capturing Captain Jack too and it’s certainly one of the better ninth Doctor novels.
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I was only looking at Classic Doctors so will look out for the Gatiss title. I like Jonathan Morris / Justin Richards / Jaq Rayner’s Big FInish work so was going to look at those nearer the time
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