New titles being published to celebrate the debut of Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor this autumn.
Penguin Random House Children’s and BBC Books have revealed a number of new additions to the Doctor Who list, ahead of the debut of Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor this autumn.
The BBC Children’s Books imprint has acquired a new Doctor Who short story from Naomi Alderman, which will feature the Thirteenth Doctor battling to save the universe alongside her close friends.
The collection – Thirteen Doctors, 13 Stories – will be published on November 1.
It marks Naomi’s return to the Doctor Who universe, after her 2011 novel, Borrowed Time, published by BBC Books. On July 19, to celebrate the opening of this year’s San Diego ComicCon, BBC Books will reissue a new paperback edition of this novel, along with a new edition of collected Doctor Who stories by Jenny T. Colgan, The Triple Knife.
In addition, award winning author and activist Juno Dawson will make her debut on the Doctor Who list with The Good Doctor. It will be one of the first novels on the BBC Books list to feature the Thirteenth Doctor.
It will be published in October along with two other Thirteenth Doctor adventures, The Molten Heart, by New York Times bestselling author Una McCormack and Combat Magicks, by bestselling Young Bond author Steve Cole.
Ruth Knowles, publisher at Penguin Random House Children’s, said: “Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor deserves ground-breaking writing from a ground-breaking author, and we are thrilled to have someone so perfect in Naomi to bring the first female Doctor to the page.
“She has stunned the world with her characters, writing and ideas, and as a huge Doctor Who fan (and previous Doctor Who book writer) she was our first choice to write the Thirteenth Doctor story for this collection. This story will be, we are sure, brilliant, and the prefect addition to this stellar collection by the very best of authors.”
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