Doctor Who: The BBC Books #100 – Psi-ence Fiction by Chris Boucher Doctor Who: The Past Doctor Adventure #46 Psi-ence Fiction By Chris Boucher Chris Boucher is a bit like the proverbial box of chocolates. Hi...

100th BBC Books review! And it’s Psi-ence Fiction, Chris Boucher’s awkwardly-titled horror novel/sitcom. It’s a bit odd really. neilisthebestdalek.blogspot.com/2026/04/doct...

Doctor Who: The BBC Books #99 – The City Of The Dead by Lloyd Rose Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor Adventures #49 The City of the Dead By Lloyd Rose New author! New female  author! New female very good  author...

First new (circa 2001, lol) author at BBC Books in a while, and Lloyd Rose is an instant hit. The City Of The Dead is a keeper. neilisthebestdalek.blogspot.com/2026/04/doct...

#30: Starter Villain by John Scalzi. Short and sweet James Bond-esque comedy from the Redshirts author. Very likeable. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

#29: Bullet Time by David A. McIntee. We get to know a lot of shady characters in this sprawling but thoughtful action thriller. The Seventh Doctor vs Sarah is eyebrow-raising. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Doctor Who: The BBC Books #98 – Bullet Time by David A. McIntee Doctor Who: The Past Doctor Adventures #45 Bullet Time By David A. McIntee I wasn’t keen to read this one because I knew a thing that happen...

Sarah Jane Smith meets the Seventh Doctor in this one and she certainly has… a time with that. neilisthebestdalek.blogspot.com/2026/03/doct...

Doctor Who: The BBC Books #97 – Dark Progeny by Steve Emmerson Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor Adventures #48 Dark Progeny By Steve Emmerson Colony worlds. Gotta love ’em. Apparently. I’m not going to pret...

Space Babies: the less silly version. I struggled with Dark Progeny as for a lot of it, not much happens. neilisthebestdalek.blogspot.com/2026/03/doct...

Doctor Who: The BBC Books #96 – Byzantium! by Keith Topping Doctor Who: The Past Doctor Adventures #44 Byzantium! By Keith Topping My first impression on plucking this one from the bookshelf was simil...

Somehow a violent stay in Roman times feels like just watching the world go by in Byzantium!, which is a leap and a bound above the author’s earlier book. I liked it. neilisthebestdalek.blogspot.com/2026/03/doct...

Doctor Who: The BBC Books #95 – The Slow Empire by Dave Stone Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor Adventures #47 The Slow Empire By Dave Stone Once more unto the breach – the breach, here, being a novel by Da...

Dave Stone goes back to space adventuring in The Slow Empire, an enjoyable if slightly scattered romp. neilisthebestdalek.blogspot.com/2026/03/doct...

Doctor Who: The BBC Books #94 – Superior Beings by Nick Walters Doctor Who: The Past Doctor Adventures #43 Superior Beings By Nick Walters After four books it’s safe to assume that Nick Walters is mostly ...

It’s fox vs man in the violent, but otherwise rather fruitless Superior Beings. Does Peri ever have a nice time in Doctor Who? neilisthebestdalek.blogspot.com/2026/03/doct...

#28: Hansel and Gretel by Stephen King, illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Delicious. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

#27: Dark Progeny by Steve Emmerson. Readable but unambitious space runaround concerning terraformers and alien babies. The lead characters mostly just flounder. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

#26: The Regulators by Richard Bachman. Essentially Danny DeVito to Desperation’s Arnold Schwarzenegger, this psychic-kid-takes-over-town story feels like half an idea crawling to novel length. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

#25: Byzantium! by Keith Topping. A surprisingly sedate historical adventure in Roman times. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

#24: Desperation by Stephen King. Good vs evil in a small town, with bodies everywhere. Nasty but compelling. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

#23: The Slow Empire by Dave Stone. Typically silly space adventuring with the Sky Pirates! author, full of weird ideas and tangents. I had fun. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

#22: Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett. Excellent coming of age story for Tiffany Aching. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

#21: Superior Beings by Nick Walters. Grim sci-fi stuff about man-eating foxes and a planet controlled by plants. It’s readable but mostly just unpleasant. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

#20: Five Rounds Rapid! The Autobiography of Nicholas Courtney, Doctor Who’s Brigadier. As the clunky title suggests it’s too Who-ish, but otherwise acquits itself quite well. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

‪#19: The Year Of Intelligent Tigers by Kate Orman. A moody and characterful take on the “whose planet is it anyway” problem. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Doctor Who: The BBC Books #93 – The Year Of Intelligent Tigers by Kate Orman Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor Adventures #46 The Year of Intelligent Tigers By Kate Orman She’s back! And — all together now — it’s about ti...

Kate Orman was a highlight of Virgin but I’ve found her to be downright load-bearing for BBC Books. (Honourable mention for Jon Blum, also contributing to the latter.) The Year Of Intelligent Tigers is another strong one. neilisthebestdalek.blogspot.com/2026/02/doct...

#18: Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis. A cynical and funny skewering of academia. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

#17: Asylum by Peter Darvill-Evans. Solid historical adventure featuring the Fourth Doctor and Nyssa, though arguably it doesn’t make the most of certain ideas. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Doctor Who: The BBC Books #92 – Asylum by Peter Darvill-Evans Doctor Who: The Past Doctor Adventures #42 Asylum By Peter Darvill-Evans In his afterword Peter Darvill-Evans says he has “ tried to write s...

Peter Darvill-Evans is back with Asylum (probably wishes he could call it Sanctuary), a gentle medieval murder mystery that arguably sleeps on some of its bigger ideas, like the companion and the SF plot. neilisthebestdalek.blogspot.com/2026/02/doct...

#16: Dying Of Politeness: by Geena Davis. A superb memoir, full of idiosyncrasy and charm. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

#15: Eater Of Wasps by Trevor Baxendale. A grisly but perhaps too straightforward monster story in a quaint setting. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

#14: Holes by Louis Sachar. Deservedly renowned children’s book, full of cleverness, beauty and grossness. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

#13: The Shadow In The Glass by Stephen Cole and Justin Richards. An enjoyably paranoid thriller that graduates from quaint to bleak in the end. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Doctor Who: The BBC Books #91 – Eater Of Wasps by Trevor Baxendale Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor Adventures #45 Eater of Wasps By Trevor Baxendale Yuck, obviously. We’re three novels deep with Trevor Baxenda...

This book contains jaunty village scenes, a chase sequence out of Mission: Impossible and wisdom such as: wasps. Do not eat. neilisthebestdalek.blogspot.com/2026/02/doct...

Doctor Who: The BBC Books #90 – The Shadow In The Glass by Stephen Cole & Justin Richards Doctor Who: The Past Doctor Adventures #41 The Shadow in the Glass By Justin Richards and Stephen Cole NB: I read the 2015 reprint for this,...

Paranoia and Nazis abound in The Shadow In The Glass. Somehow it is also a romp. neilisthebestdalek.blogspot.com/2026/02/doct...

Foolishly allowed my phone to update to the latest iOS. Whoever came up with Liquid Glass, I wish you a very “need to read an important safety label in a room full of smoke and your glasses are fogged up.”