Doctor Who: The Missy Chronicles by Stephen Cole (Editor)

Doctor Who:  The Missy Chronicles by Stephen Cole (Editor) - 224 pages

Know your frenemy.

‘I’ve had adventures too. My whole life doesn’t revolve around you, you know.’

When she's not busy amassing armies of Cybermen, or manipulating the Doctor and his companions, Missy has plenty of time to kill (literally). In this all new collection of stories about the renegade Time Lord we all love to hate, you'll discover just some of the mad and malevolent activities Missy gets up to while she isn't distracted by the Doctor.

So please try to keep up.

Combat Magicks by Steve Cole

Combat Magicks by Steve Cole - 272 pages

The TARDIS arrives in Gaul in 451AD, on the eve of battle between the forces of Attila the Hun and those of the crumbling Roman Empire. But the Doctor soon finds that both sides are being helped by sinister, supernatural creatures.

While Graham makes allies in the Roman camp and Ryan is pursued by the enigmatic Legion of Smoke, the Doctor and Yasmin are pressed into service as Attila’s personal sorcerers. But the Doctor knows there is science behind the combat magicks- and that the true war will pit all humanity against a ruthless alien threat.

Doctor Who: Molten Heart by Una McCormack

Doctor Who:  Molten Heart by Una McCormack - 208 pages

Deep below the surface of the planet Adamantine lies a crystalline wonder world of lava seas and volcanic islands, home to living rock-people.

But when the Doctor and her friends arrive on Adamantine they find it under threat. The seas are shrinking, the magma is cooling, and mysterious, fatal seething pools are spreading fast.

Something has come to Adamantine – but what does it want? Fearing an invasion is underway, the Doctor must lead an expedition to the surface of the world to save its molten heart…

Doctor Who: Winner Takes All by Jacqueline Rayner

Doctor Who:  Winner Takes All by Jacqueline Rayner - 245 pages

Rose and the Doctor return to present-day Earth, and become intrigued by the latest craze – the video game, Death to Mantodeans. Is it as harmless as it seems? And why are so many local people going on holiday and never returning? Meanwhile, on another world, an alien war is raging. The Quevvils need to find a new means of attacking the ruthless Mantodeans.

Searching the galaxy for cunning, warlike but gullible allies, they find the ideal soldiers on Earth. Will Rose be able to save her family and friends from the alien threat? And can the Doctor play the game to the end and win?

Featuring the Ninth Doctor and Rose as played by Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper in the hit science fiction series from BBC Television.

Doctor Who: Heart of Stone by Trevor Baxendale

Doctor Who:  Heart of Stone by Trevor Baxendale - 183 pages

The Doctor, Amy and Rory are surprised to discover lumps of moon rock scattered around a farm. But things get even stranger when they find out where the moon rock is coming from - a Rock Man is turning everything he touches to stone! Can the Doctor, Amy and Rory find out what the creature wants before it's too late?

Doctor Who: In the Blood by Jenny T. Colgan

Doctor Who:  In the Blood by Jenny T. Colgan - 336 pages

All over the world, people are venting their fury at one another on social media. Dropping their friends, giving vent to their hatred, and everywhere behaving with incredible cruelty. Even Donna has found that her friend Hettie, with her seemingly perfect life and fancy house, has unfriended her. And now, all over the world, internet trolls are dying...

As more and more people give in to this wave of bitterness and aggression, it's clear this is no simple case of modern living. This is unkindness as a plague.

From the streets of London to the web cafes of South Korea and the deepest darkest forests of Rio, can the Doctor and Donna find the cause of this unhappiness before it's too late?

An original novel featuring the Tenth Doctor and Donna, as played by David Tennant and Catherine Tate.

Doctor Who: The American Adventures by Justin Richards

Doctor Who:  The American Adventures by Justin Richards - 192 pages

Travel through time and space with the Twelfth Doctor in these six brand new adventures, set in a host of locations across the US and eras from throughout US history.

An invisible spacecraft turns up at the Battle of New Orleans, an alien presence is detected at the 1944 D-Day landings, and ghosts take over New York's subway tunnels as they're being dug in the early 1900s...

Filled with mystery, excitement and the Doctor's trademark wit, these timeywimey stories will delight any Doctor Who fan.

Doctor Who: Dark Horizons by Jenny Colgan

Doctor Who:  Dark Horizons by Jenny Colgan - 320 pages

"Now, you may or may not have noticed, but we appear to be on fire..."

On a windswept northern shore, at the very tip of what will one day become Scotland, the islanders believe the worst they have to fear is a Viking attack. Then the burning comes. They cannot run from it. Water will not stop it. It consumes everything in its path - yet the burned still speak.

The Doctor is just looking for a game on the famous Lewis chess set. Instead he encounters a people under attack from a power they cannot possibly understand. They have no weapons, no strategy and no protection against a fire sent to engulf them all.

Add in some marauding Vikings with very bad timing, a kidnapped princess with a secret of her own and a TARDIS that seems to have developed an inexplicable fear of water, and they all have a battle on their hands. The islanders must take on a ruthless alien force in a world without technology; without communications; without tea that isn't made out of bark. Still at least they have the Doctor on their side... Don't they?

A thrilling new adventure starring the Doctor, as played by Matt Smith in the acclaimed Doctor Who series from BBC Television.

Luther: The Calling by Neil Cross

Luther: The Calling by Neil Cross - 336 pages

Luther began as an excellent television series by the BBC which aired in the US on BBC America with the character of  Luther being played by the phenomenal Idris Elba.  The tv series opened with police detective John Luther facing a moral choice about letting a heinous criminal fall to his death or trying to save him.  The choice made at that moment shaped the direction Luther's life took from that point forward.

This book is essentially a prequel to the tv series which leads you eventually to the moment in the series opener.  All of the wonderfully wounded characters spring to life from the page as vividly as they did on television.  The plot opens with Luther investigating the kidnapping of a baby cut from the mother's womb.  It quickly spirals into a high profile case with both professional and personal pressures driving Luther to some very dark places.  There is graphic violence but it is not gratuitous.  I highly recommend both the book and the tv series.