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Book List
Author is Gary Russell
#Year1st ReadTitleAuthor(s)My Rating 
1 1997 1998 Business Unusual
Doctor Who - Past Doctors #4
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A security force with no official identity... a managing director with no name...  a sinister creature on guard patrol resembling some kind of hellhound...  SenèNet is no ordinary multinational company.

The Doctor arrives in Brighton, 1989, travelling alone.  He soon discovers his old friend, the Brigadier, has gone missing investigating SenèNet, whose new interactive games console is soon to be released at an absurdly reasonable price.  He was last seen at their headquarters - based in the picturesque Ashdown Forest...

Investigating further, the Doctor becomes more and more entangled  in a deadly web of intrigue.  Together with Mel, a plucky programmer from Pease Pottage, the Doctor must overcome the conspiracy of silence, rescue the Brigadier and save the world once again - something that would be a lot easier if her just knew where to start...
2 1997 Deadfall
Doctor Who - New Adventures #67
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'We've a killer brain-eater on board, half of us are dead, and all you want to do is discuss your wretched fish. Do you sense a problem with your priorities?'

Jason Kane is out to impress his ex-wife, Bernice, and he has found the perfect way of doing it. He's convinced she knows the location of the legendary planet of Ardethe - a site of untold riches and forbidden knowledge. So, after rifling through her bag for information, he sets off with his trusty crewman Emile to a barren and isolated rock.

As usual, Jason's plans go awry. Very soon people begin to die - and die quite horribly. They have awakened something beneath the planet's surface that's feasting on human brains. And when a ship full of hard-bitten female convicts arrives in the skies about the desolate world, the situation becomes even more complicated.

Someone is pulling the strings and watching the carnage. It could be any of the desperate prisoners, the reclusive crew, or the suspicious governor. Not knowing who the true foe is, Jason calls for help. Assistance arrives in the form of his old companion Christopher Cwej - just the man you'd want by your side in a tricky situation. but something terrible has happened to Chris, and now he can't even remember his own name.
3 1999 1999 Divided Loyalties
Doctor Who - Past Doctors #26
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There are some evils in the universe that need to be fought.  And others that need redeeming…

Many years ago the Doctor, a student at the Academy on Gallifrey, lost a friend to the mysterious and malevolent force known as the Celestial Toymaker.  Now, in his fifth incarnation, the Doctor receives a telepathic call from his long-lost classmate, begging for help.

As he sets out to rescue his friend and exact revenge, the Doctor's companions become increasingly involved.  Adric, determined to justify his place aboard the TARDIS, opts to face the Toymaker's game challenges while Nyssa, angered by the Doctor's actions, finds herself excluded by the people she thought were her friends.  And what is the connection between the Toymaker and the planet Dymok, whose comatose inhabitants find a new savior in the shape of Tegan Jovanka?
4 1996 Doctor Who
Doctor Who - Novelizations (UK) #157
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LATE DECEMBER, 1999: the brink of a new millennium. An anachronistic British Police Box materialises in San Francisco's Chinatown amid a hail of bullets which find an unintentional target - a strange man who walks out of the Police Box. Despite the best efforts of Dr Grace Holloway, the unknown traveller dies and his body vanishes. And soon another stranger appears, claiming to be the same man inside a different body; a mysterious wanderer in time and space known only as the Doctor. But the Doctor is not the only time-traveller in San Francisco. His oldest adversary, the Master, is there as well, desperately trying to steal the Doctor's newly-regenerated body. Before long, the Doctor is faced with a choice: to save his own life, or the billions of people who have no future unless the Master is stopped. If only the Doctor could remember how... The novelisation of the long-awaited new Doctor Who film featuring eight pages of colour photographs from the film. A co-production between BBC Worldwide and Universal Television starring Paul McGann as the Doctor, Eric Roberts as the Master and Daphne Ashbrook as Grace.
5 2001 2001 Instruments of Darkness
Doctor Who - Past Doctors #48
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The leaders on planet Earth think that the Magnate is a mysterious 'shadow Government' that controls the world.  It isn't.  The leaders believe the Network to be a ramshackle, paranoid outfit of European anarchists who will eventually blow themselves up.  They won't.  The leaders believe that if there are humans who can control things with their minds - ESPnets - they're few and far between, and not worth worrying about.  They're wrong.  The leaders believe that one minute after midnight on 31 December 1993, a new year, full of promise, will begin.  They're wrong.

The Doctor and Mel arrive on Earth just days before New Year.  An old friend has been kidnapped and taken to France.  And two murderious enemies are setting up a new life in the Peak DIstrict.  Which of these threats should the Doctor deal with first?  And why is his old travelling companion Evelyn Smythe using her knownledge of the future to make a fortune from chocolate cake resipes?!
6 1995 1996 Invasion of the Cat People
Doctor Who - Missing Adventures #13
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'Explode the buoys? But that will destroy the Earth!'
'Oh dear, so it will. Pass on my apologies to the humans, won't you?'


Earth has been invaded. Twice. Thousands of years ago by a race searching for a new power source. More recently by the galactic marauders known as the Cat-People, who intend to continue the work done by the earlier visitors, with devastating results.

The recently regenerated Doctor, along with companions Ben and Polly, teams up with a group of amateur ghost-hunters and a mysterious white witch on a journey that takes them from twentieth-century Combria to the Arabian deserts of folklore and Australia 40,000 years in the past. Can the Doctor stop the invaders and disarm the bombs left buried beneath the planet's surface - or have the ancient Aborigines of Australia sung the seeds of their own destruction?
7 1994 Legacy
Doctor Who - New Adventures #25
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'So, that's an Ice Warrior. Brings a whole new meaning to the concept of shell suits.'

The Doctor is pursuing a master criminal. The trail leads to Peladon: a desolate world once home to a barbaric, feudal society. Now the Galactic Federation is attempting to bring prosperity and civilization to the planet. But not all Pels support the changes, and when ancient relics are stolen from their Citadel, the representatives of the Federation are blamed. The Doctor suspects the Ice Warrior delegation, but before long the Time Lord himself is arrested for the crime - and sentenced to death.

Elsewhere, interplanetary mercenaries are bringing one of the galaxy's most evil artifacts to Peladon, apparently on the Doctor's instruction. Ace is pursuing a dangerous mission on another world and Bernice is getting friendly - perhaps too friendly - with the Ice Warriors she has studied for so long.

The players are making the final moves in a devious and lethal plan - but for once it isn't the Doctor's.
8 1998 1998 Placebo Effect
Doctor Who - 8th Doctor #13
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It is 3999.  An artificial planetoid, Micawber's World, is hosting the Intergalactic Olympic Games, and athletes from all the worlds in the Galactic Federation are coming to take part.  But when the Doctor and Sam arrive, murders soon begin...

The Doctor finds himself drafted in to examine some bizarre new drugs that are said to enhance the natural potential of the competing athletes.  But what is their real purpose?  Why are members of the Security Forces disappearing randomly?  And just why is Chase Carrington, manufacturer of the drug, so protective of his company's secrets?

Watching and waiting at the very heart of Micawber's World, is a race of parasites the Doctor has fought before.  The Wirrrn have come to the Milky Way from Andromeda, determined to spread their seed throughout a whole new galaxy, and it seems to Sam that the Doctor has his hands too full to pay their threat full attention...
9 1996 The Scales of Injustice
Doctor Who - Missing Adventures #24
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'And what exactly, Doctor Shaw, do you think C19 does with the dead bodies of plastic dummies, reptile men, primordial throwbacks and all their human victims?'

A little boy goes missing; a policewoman begins drawing cave paintings; and the employees at the mysterious Glasshouse are desperate to keep everyone away - the Doctor suspects it's all down to a group of homo reptilia. His assistant, Liz Shaw, has ideas of her own and has teamed up with a journalist to search for people who don't exist.

While the Brigadier has to cope with UNIT funding, the breakdown of his marriage and Geneva's threats to replace him, the Doctor must find the reptiles alone.

And behind it all lies a conspiracy to exploit UNIT's achievements - a conspiracy reaching deep into the heart of the British Government.
10 2001 2001 The Shadow in the Glass
Doctor Who - Past Doctors #41
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May 17th 1944: A squadron of Hurricanes shoots down an unidentified aircraft over the Dorset village of Turelhampton.  A routine operation.  So why is the village immediatley evacuated?

2001: Toops still occupy Turelhampton, guarding the village's dark secret.  When a television documentary crew break through the cordon looking for a story, they find they've recorded more than they'd bargained for.

Meanwhile, in Cornwall, a journalist is witness to a terrifying ceremony: agent of the worst evil in history plan to unleash a new, unthinkable horror on the world.

Caught up in both a deadly conspiracy and historical mystery, retired Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart calls upon his old friend the Doctor.  Half-glimpsed demons watch from the shadows as the Doctor and the Brigadier discover the last, and deadliest, secret of the Second World War.
11 2003 Short Trips: Companions
Doctor Who - Big Finish - Collections #2
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Peter Anghelides  
David Bailey  
Nick Clark  
Andrew Collins  
Stephen Fewell  
Simon A Forward  
Simon Guerrier  
Alison Lawson  
Steve Lyons  
Paul Magrs  
Mark Michalowski  
Ian Potter  
Justin Richards  
Eddie Robson  
Gary Russell  
Tara Samms  
Andrew Spokes  
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Wanted: attractive young girl (boy may be considered). Must have strong ankles, healthy lungs, and no family ties. Ability to say 'what's that, Doctor?' in many different ways a necessity. Bizarre taste in clothes may be an advantage. Must be able to deal with traumatic situations involving life and death with no obvious after effects.

They didn't always ask to travel with the Doctor. And even if they did, they didn't know what the consequences would be.

Were Ian's travels foretold? What paradoxical conundrums faced the Doctor, Charley and Will Shakespeare in Ancient Troy? And just how difficult is it to get a job when you can't account for a gap of several years on your CV?
12 2005 Spiral Scratch
Doctor Who - Past Doctors #72
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