Doctor Who: The Target Storybook

Product Description
In this exciting collection you’ll find all-new stories spinning off from some of your favourite Doctor Who moments across the history of the series. Learn what happened next, what went on before, and what occurred off-screen in an inventive selection of sequels, side-trips, foreshadowings and first-hand accounts – and look forward too, with a brand new adventure for the Thirteenth Doctor.\nEach story expands in thrilling ways upon aspects of Doctor Who’s enduring legend. With contributions from show luminaries past and present – including Colin Baker, Matthew Waterhouse, Vinay Patel, Joy Wilkinson and Terrance Dicks – The Target Storybook is a once-in-a-lifetime tour around the wonders of the Whoniverse.
About the Author
Terrance Dicks became Script Editor of
Doctor Who in 1968, co-writing Patrick Troughton’s classic final serial,
The War Games, and editing the show throughout the entire Jon Pertwee era to 1974. He wrote many iconic episodes and serials for the show after, including Tom Baker's first episode as the Fourth Doctor,
Robot;
Horror at Fang Rock in 1977;
State of Decay in 1980; and the 20th anniversary special,
The Five Doctors in 1983. Terrance novelised over sixty of the original
Doctor Who stories for Target books, including classics like
Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen and
Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion, inspiring a generation of children to become readers and writers. He died in August 2019, only weeks before the publication of his final Doctor Who short story, ‘Save Yourself’, in
The Target Storybook.\nMatthew Sweet presents the BBC radio programmes
Free Thinking,
Sound of Cinema and
The Philosopher’s Arms. He has judged the Costa Book Award, edited
The Woman in White for Penguin Classics and was Series Consultant on the Showtime/Sky Atlantic series
Penny Dreadful. His books include
The West End Front and
Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers and Themselves.\nSimon Guerrier is co-author of
Doctor Who: The Women Who Lived and
Whographica for BBC Books, and has written countless
Doctor Who books, comics, audio plays and documentaries. He has been a guest on
Front Row and
The Infinite Monkey Cage on Radio 4 and, with his brother Thomas, makes films and documentaries – most recently
Victorian Queens of Ancient Egypt for Radio 3.\nColin Baker is an English actor who became known for playing Paul Merroney in the BBC drama series
The Brothers from 1974 to 1976. He went on to play the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the TV series
Doctor Who. He reprised the role for the 1993 Children in Need special,
Dimensions in Time, and the 1989 stage show
Doctor Who – The Ultimate Adventure. He has also voiced the Doctor for over 140
Doctor Who audio stories for Big Finish Productions.\nMatthew Waterhouse played Adric, companion to Tom Baker and Peter Davison's Doctors from 1980 to 1982. Since then, he has worked extensively as an actor in theatre. His published writing includes a memoir,
Blue Box Boy, three novels and a book of stories. Recently he's appeared in episodes of the audio version of
Dark Shadows and numerous
Doctor Who audio projects, including an award-winning one-man play,
Doctor Who: A Full Life, and a forthcoming quartet of new adventures starring alongside Tom Baker.\nJenny T. Colgan has written numerous bestselling novels as Jenny Colgan, which have sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide, been translated into 25 languages, and won both the Melissa Nathan Award and Romantic Novel of the Year 2013. Aged 11, she won a national fan competition to meet the Doctor and was mistaken for a boy by Peter Davison.\nJacqueline Rayner is the author of over 40 books and audio plays, including number one bestseller
The Stone Rose, the highest-selling
Doctor Who novel of all time, and two
Doctor Who ‘Quick Reads’ for World Book Day. She lives in Essex with her husband and twin s