DOCTOR WHO BOOK TITLES

THE SCRIPTS 1974/5

The first season of the Fourth Doctors series are covered in this wonderful script book from Auntie. Tom Baker is probably the best known of the Doctors, and his first season had encounters with both the Daleks and Cybermen, so it is only right that this should be the first to be released in a series of scripts. Included are annotations such as camera direction, set notes, costume and make-up design, production notes and dates, edits made to the script during the writing stage and visual, electronic, and sound effects.

At the end of each episode, and overview of the finished programme will be written containing notes on character and narrative development and Doctor Who continuity. Priced £18.99, this hardback book is great value, and an ideal gift for a Who fan - ISBN 0563 538155.

THE ADVENTURESS OF HENRIETTA STREET

This new novel written by Lawrence Miles and the year is 1782. Something raw and primal is eating its way through human society, from the streets of revolutionary Paris to the slave states of America.

Covens of witch-prostitutes across London and Napoleonic Europe are using ancient techniques to reach a heightened state of "time-consciousness". Only one coven leader, Scarlette, seems to realise the extent of the evil their activities are inviting in - an encroaching terror that threatens to end all things.

It is left to Scarlette to defend her world from the danger. Beside her stands the 'elemental champion', otherwise known as the Doctor…

ISBN 0563 538422 Price £5.99

INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS

The Doctor faces the twin threats of a sinister crime organisation and a mysterious cult in this new novel from the pen of Gary Russell. A tall, thin albino man, in various guises, is appearing in different pats of the world, where he is holding secret meetings with an array of agents. These agents believe they are working for the French secret service, but are in fact on the payroll of a sinister crime organisation known as the Magnate.

The Doctor and Mel arrive on Earth just days before New Year 1993. An old friend has been kidnapped and taken to France. To add to the Doctor's problems, two murderous enemies are setting up a new life in the Peak District. The Doctor must decide which of these threats he should deal with first. He must also find out exactly what plans Magnate has for the planet Earth…

ISBN 0563 538 287 Price £5.99

THE CITY OF THE DEAD

A new story featuring the eighth Doctor, the Doctor and his companions arrive in New Orleans for some rest and recuperation in the South's legendary good-time city, known as the Big Easy. However, it has a darker side, and is a centre for the occult, with Magicians, Voodoo worshippers, and Demon-raisers roam the city converging in the graveyard of St Louis.

A mysterious bone artifact inexplicably discovered in the TARDIS seems to have linkes to the Doctor's strange and disturbing dreams, in which something is seeking him out. Are these also linked to the chain of murders taking place> And can the Doctor discover the source of the evil in time to save the city's terrified inhabitants form the terrors that menace them? Priced £5.99, the ISBN is 0563 538392.

PSI-ENCE FICTION

The fourth Doctor becomes embroiled in strange psychic occurances in this new novel by Chris Boucher. Feynman College has received a mysterious endowmnet to fund research in parapsychology. The post is awarded to Barry Hitchens, a man who is not above falsifying the results of experiments or setting up stunts to achieve his goals.

When five of Barry's students begin to display signs of paranormal gifts, a series of strange and disturbing events start to unravel at the collge. One of the students believes she has contacted the spirit of a dead serial killer - and shortly afterwards she is the victim of a violent and mysterious death.

When the Doctor arrives and is briefly mistaken for Barry hitchens he finds himself drawn into series of eerie events taking place at the collge. how can he account for these students' psychic powers - and can he get to the bottom of the sinister murders? Priced £5.99, ISBN 0563 538147.

DARK PROGENY

Another new story featuring the eighth Doctor, where he meddles in the development of a new world with potentially disasterous consequences. The dead planet, Ceres Alpha, is being developed by gigantic city-machines for human colonisation. The contract for developing the planet is held by the powerful WorldCorp, however, the project is riddled with setbacks.

A batch of strange babies has been born with telekinetic powers and the city-machines are encountering continual problems with thier computers. It seems there may be conspirators, and to add to the problems, a rival corporations had plans to take the contract for Ceres Alpha- WorldCorps patience is wearing thin. When the Doctor is revealed as the infiltrator, WorldCorp realises it can solve its problems in one fell swoop...

Priced £5.99, the ISBN is 0563 538376.

BULLET TIME

Alien activity in Hong Kong's brutal and deadly underworld is the setting for Bullet Time a new adventure with the Seventh Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith, written by David A McIntee. Sarah Jane is busy covering the Chinese take-over of Hong Kong in 1997 when she stumbles across a trail of corruption and murder. The alien Tzun have been trapped on Earth while they search for the location of thier lost ship, however, they're not the only ones on the hunt for the vessel. The CIA, the Chinese Secret Police, the KGB, and even UNIT are also on the ship's trail. The Tzun have the wisdom and the ingenuity of the Doctor on thier side, but, as Sarah Jane discovers, that wisdom and ingenuity is necessarily being put to the best of uses.

Priced £5.99, ISBN 0563 538341.