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Five more books are joining the Target range of Doctor Who novelisations this summer.

The 2023 collection celebrates the dramatic return of David Tennant and showrunner Russell T Davies to the programme. Both THE WATERS OF MARS by Phil Ford and THE PLANET OF OOD by Keith Temple are iconic Doctor Who episodes from the Tenth Doctor era.

Fans will also be able to add a Twelfth Doctor adventure, as played by Peter Capaldi, to their collection with THE ZYGON INVASION by Peter Harness and a Thirteenth Doctor novelisation with KERBLAM! by Peter McTighe. Stephen Gallagher’s WARRIORS’ GATE AND OTHER STORIES will feature the Fourth Doctor.

KERBLAM! by Pete McTighe – Kerblam! is the biggest online retailer in the galaxy – but how did it become so big? When the Doctor’s Kerblam! package includes a mysterious request for help, she heads straight to the company’s warehouse moon to investigate…

PLANET OF THE OOD by Keith Temple – The Doctor and Donna learn that the planet of the Ood holds cruel and awesome secrets. As they battle for justice and survival, the fate of the entire Ood race hangs in the balance. Will the outcome be salvation – or extinction?

THE WATERS OF MARS by Phil Ford – The first human colony on Mars is destined for destruction in a nuclear explosion. This tragedy is a fixed point in history. The laws of time dictate that it cannot – must never – be changed. But as the Doctor’s darkest hour comes calling, he resolves to break the rules as he never has before…

THE ZYGON INVASION by Peter Harness – It took three Doctors to broker a fragile peace between Zygons and Humans. Now the Twelfth Doctor must face the fallout alone. With his allies compromised and his companion believed dead, can he stop the world from plunging into war?

WARRIORS’ GATE AND OTHER STORIES by Stephen Gallagher – a new-to-print, expanded novelisation of the classic 1981 adventure. With the TARDIS caught in the collapsing void between two different universes, the Fourth Doctor is drawn into a dangerous alliance with a race of enslaved, time-sensitive aliens. The consequences are explored in two further short stories, one exclusive to this volume! (Click here for our interview with the author about the new version and the first of the sequel stories.)

Each of the authors for the 2023 Target books are the original screenwriters of the TV episodes.