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Series · 45
books · 2008-2021

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Museum Peace

2009

A single old man. One who knows what it is to fight, who understands an enemy few think of any more, who has had to make terrible decisions in his life. And who now, in a museum, with that enemy in front of him reduced to a mere curiosity... Meets Kalendorf.
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#2

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The Switching

2010

Yesterday there were two Time Lord prisoners on Earth - the Master in his cell, the Doctor in his exile. But today the Doctor's not quite feeling himself. Today he's seeing things from a different perspective. And today the Master's going to escape...
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#3

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Lepidoptery For Beginners

2010

"It's already done. You are dead. You just don't know it yet." Iolas is a man with a plan. It has 1009 Easy Steps, all of them now happening successfully. One. By. One. The very last step? The death of the Doctor...
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The Little Drummer Boy

2010

"A few more random landings will shake off the Daleks. So to speak." But for the Doctor, Steven and Sara, the landings are anything but random. It's Christmas Day... So many times. What terrible secret is bringing the time travellers to the same day in different years?
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Twilight's End

2017

A wonder of modern technology; the vast, secure building waits. A part of the building's very fabric; the advanced computer Oracle waits for a face its systems recognise. And at the heart of this steel, concrete, cable and flesh; a figure thought long-dead waits for a visitor. Nimrod has one last meeting with his Doctor...
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#6

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Lant Land

2011

Shortly after the TARDIS has materialised, the mysterious and mannered Simon and Joanne welcome their new visitors to an evening's entertainment involving Lant Land. But is all as it seems? The Fifth Doctor and his companions Yvonne and Derek must find out...
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#7

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Neptune

2011

Featuring the Third Doctor and Sarah-Jane Smith. Originally published as part of the Short Trip anthology The Solar System. Released to subscribers whose subscriptions included Doctor Who: The Doomsday Quatrain and Doctor Who: House Of Blue Fire.
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#8

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Breadcrumbs

2012

Bonus Short Trip featuring the Fourth Doctor and Romana, available to Big Finish subscribers who purchased Doctor Who: Wirrn Isle.
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#9

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Only Connect

2012

James Willaker has been working late. He's tired. It's been a long day. All that awaits now is a taxi home before bed. Conversations with taxi drivers are a factor of London commutes, indeed of every city. They can't have any importance. They can't change the world. They can't affect the future. Can they?
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#10

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Methuselah

2014

Featuring the Fifth Doctor and Peri. Originally published in the Short Trips anthology Transmissions. Released to subscribers who purchased Doctor Who: Daleks Among Us and Doctor Who: 1963: Fanfare For The Common Men.
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#11

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Tweaker

2008

Featuring the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa. Originally published in the Short Trips anthology Transmissions. Released to Big Finish subscribers who purchased Doctor Who: Afterlife. An ordinary man called Collins buys himself a new record, but soon regrets it when a man called the Doctor starts paying him unusual attention. Will the Doctor be able to prevent the record's terrible power from being unleashed upon the world?
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#12

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A Room With No View

2014

Bonus Short Trip featuring the Fifth Doctor and Peri available to Big Finish subscribers who purchased Doctor Who: Gods And Monsters and Doctor Who: The Burning Prince.
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#13

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The Piltdown Men

2014

Doctor Who Subscriber Short Trip, featuring the Second Doctor and H.G. Wells, comes with Doctor Who: Scavenger.
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#14

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Late Night Shopping

2014

Bonus Short Trip featuring the Eighth Doctor and Lucie. Released to Big Finish subscribers who purchased Doctor Who: Masquerade. The Doctor and Lucie go on a late night shopping trip to rid a supermarket of alien superweapons disguised in the form of tomatoes.
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#15

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Waiting for Gadot

2014

"A roaming alien doctor - I can smell a series in this!" EarthCom cameraman Marsh is a man on a mission: to film some incredibly rare wildlife on a remote world. But life on this planet is both busier and quieter than expected: and it holds Marsh's future in its grasp...
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#16

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The Doctor's First XI

2014

Doctor Who Subscriber Short Trip, featuring the Fourth Doctor and Romana I, comes with Doctor Who: The Architects of History
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#17

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Sound The Siren And I'll Come To You Comrade

2016

The Doctor and Leela arrive on a barren plain in the Soviet Union of the 1950s. Twisted wreckage and remains speak of the tests of a destructive new power. The scientists responsible live in terror of their political masters. But now they all have something else to be scared of...
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#18

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Intuition

2014

The Sixth Doctor and Mel are in the Swiss mountains for some rest and relaxation after recent exertions. But soon the Doctor finds himself involved in a mystery, as those working in the resort's hospitality prove preternaturally willing to help. Is it just mere chance? The Doctor's intuition is that something is wrong: but intuition could be the very problem here...
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#19

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A Home From Home

2014

A woman, a soldier, and a Time Lord walk into a bar. One of them is never seen again. Where has the Doctor gone - and can he be rescued? Liz knows she's his only hope. But she's not the only hunter at large tonight...
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#20

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The Young Lions

2015

The Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller have stopped off in Little Morton for a fry-up. It's not the healthiest way to start a day, but better than some: the Major from the local barracks has just fallen to his death. Or has he? A visit to the hospital highlights the surprising levels of health in the soldiers. There's clearly something going on beneath the surface at Little Morton: and it's about to come to light...
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#21

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Crystal Ball

2015

Bonus Short Trip featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace. Released to Big Finish subscribers who purchased Doctor Who: Prisoners Of Fate.
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#22

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String Theory

2015

Doctor Who Subscriber Short Trip, featuring the Fourth Doctor and Leela, comes with Doctor Who: The Entropy Plague.
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#23

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Sphinx Lightning

2015

Bonus Short Trip featuring the Third Doctor and Jo Grant. Released to Big Finish subscribers who purchased Doctor Who: The Secret History.
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#24

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The Warren Legacy

2015

On a dark and stormy night, the Governor of a colony has some mysterious visitors. The Quell can make a particular problem go away, and all they ask in return is something that didn't exist in the first place. On a dark and stormy night, Lord Samuel Warren has some mysterious visitors. The Doctor and Romana can make a particular problem go away. That's if the Quell doesn't kill them all first...
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#25

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The Caves Of Erith

2015

Bonus Short Trip featuring the Eighth Doctor and Lucie. Released to Big Finish subscribers who purchased Doctor Who: You Are The Doctor And Other Stories.
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#26

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The Horror At Bletchington Station

2016

The Doctor and Dodo seek shelter from a heavy storm in a rural Victorian setting, but it's not the thunder and lighting that's caused nearby railway labourers to flee in terror. Something has been disturbed, something that should have been left alone. But is that really the reason the Doctor's so distracted?
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#27

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The Monkey House

2016

Bonus Short Trip featuring the Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Turlough and Nyssa. Released to Big Finish subscribers who purchased Doctor Who: The Two Masters.
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#28

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The Shrine Of Sorrows

2016

Bonus Short Trip featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace. Released to Big Finish subscribers who purchased Doctor Who: Maker Of Demons.
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#29

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The Christmas Dimension

2016

Bonus Short Trip featuring the Third Doctor and Liz Shaw. Released to Big Finish subscribers who purchased Doctor Who: Absolute Power and Doctor Who: Quicksilver.
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#30

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Collector's Item

2017

A short trip featuring the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith which was available to subscribers of Big Finish's main Doctor Who range whose subscription included Zaltys.
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#31

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The Horror of Hy-Brasil

2017

A short trip featuring the Second Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe which was available to subscribers of Big Finish's main Doctor Who range whose subscription included Doctor Who: Shadow Planet / World Apart.
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#32

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Helmstone

2017

Landing on the generation ship Not-Home, Steven and the Doctor find the TARDIS drained of power and unable to take off again for months, if not years. They meet Korra, an inhabitant of Not-Home who carries a Helmstone - an artifact that requires her to present herself at the city for a ritual. The three of them undergo the journey together, but the Doctor and Steven suspect that all is not as it seems... Helmstone was a short trip featuring the First Doctor and Steven Taylor which was available to subscribers of Big Finish's main Doctor Who range whose subscription included The Silurian Candidate and Time in Office.
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#33

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The Night Before Christmas

2017

Doctor Who Subscriber Short Trip, featuring the Seventh Doctor which was available to subscribers of Big Finish's main Doctor Who range whose subscription included Doctor Who: Static.
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#34

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Mission Improbable

2018

Mission Improbable was a short trip featuring the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe which was available to subscribers of Big Finish's main Doctor Who range whose subscription included Doctor Who: Serpent in the Silver Mask.
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#35

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Taken For Granted

2018

Doctor Who Subscriber Short Trip, featuring the Third Doctor and Jo Grant, comes with Doctor Who: Iron Bright.
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#36

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The Smallest Battle

2018

Doctor Who Subscriber Short Trip, featuring the Fourth Doctor and Leela, comes with Doctor Who: The Dispossessed.
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#38

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Loud and Proud

2019

Doctor Who Subscriber Short Trip, featuring the Sixth Doctor and Mel, comes with Doctor Who: The Kamelion Empire.
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#39

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Still Life

2019

Doctor Who Subscriber Short Trip, featuring the Third Doctor and Jo Grant, comes with Doctor Who: Doctor Who: An Alien Werewolf in London.
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#40

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An Ocean of Sawdust

2019

Doctor Who Subscriber Short Trip, featuring the Eighth Doctor, comes with Doctor Who: Harry Houdini's War and Doctor Who: Tartarus.
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#41

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A Song for Running

2019

Doctor Who Subscriber Short Trip, featuring the Twelfth Doctor, comes with Doctor Who: Blood on Santa's Claw and Other Stories.
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#42

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Not Forgotten

2020

While following a trail of chronon energy and anachronistic gaming events, the Doctor and Peri stop off in a diner in 1950s New York. Here they meet a man whom no-one else can see, who is suffering from amnesia. When the stranger leaves money for his meal, the Doctor discovers the coins are from each of the times and places he and Peri have recently visited.
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#43

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Home Again, Home Again

2020

Doctor Who Subscriber Short Trip, featuring the First Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara, comes with Doctor Who: The Lovecraft Invasion.
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#44

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The Beast of Muir

2020

Doctor Who Subscriber Short Trip, featuring the Fourth Doctor and Leela, comes with Doctor Who: The Flying Dutchman / Displaced.
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#45

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Crime at the Cinema

2020

Doctor Who Subscriber Short Trip, featuring the Third Doctor and Sarah-Jane Smith, comes with Doctor Who: Plight of the Pimpernel and Doctor Who: The Grey Man of the Mountain.
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#46

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Soul Music

2021

The final Doctor Who Subscriber Short Trip, featuring the Tenth Doctor, comes with Doctor Who: The End of the Beginning.

Authors

Russell McGee
Russell McGee
Author · 1 books

Russell McGee is 2021 Audie Award Finalist, a nine-time Telly Award winning writer/producer, a three-time Communicator Awards winner, and a 2019 and 2020 Regional Emmy nominated writer. Russell received his Master’s in TV/Film Production at Indiana University, in 2013 and his Bachelors in Theatre with a creative writing minor from Indiana State University, in 2001. He is a Meisner trained actor and he has been producing and directing since 1993. In 2002, his full-length play "Ankhenaten & Nefertiti" earned him a scholarship to attend the W. B. Yeats International Summer School. In 2007, he was awarded the Basile Playwriting Fellowship through the Indiana Theatre Association for his ten-minute play "The Clockwork Man" and his play "Silent Cinema" won the Artsweek Playwriting Competition. In 2008, he founded Starrynight Productions and was the Literary Manager of the Bloomington Playwrights Project. In 2013, his film "Funeral March of a Marionette" won the Best Narrative category at the Iris Film Festival. He co-created and co-wrote the web series "Silence", which won the Best Screenwriting Category at the 2013 Multivisions Multimedia Conference, was an official selection of the 2013 Indy Film Con, and was an official selection of the 2014 Irvine International Film Festival. In 2014, he co-wrote a pilot script "Forman Chronicles", which placed third in the short screenplay category at the 2014 Diabolique International Film Festival. He works as the On-air Promotions Producer at WTIU, teaches Screenwriting and Sound Design at Indiana University, has written multiple Doctor Who short stories including a Subscriber Short Trip, and is a sound designer for Big Finish Productions LTD on their Doctor Who full-cast audio plays. He was also nominated for Best Audio Adaptation in the 18th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards, nominated as a Producer, Writer, & Editor in Children's Programming 2018 Regional Emmy Awards, won the Best Vocal Direction Award in the 2019 Audio Verse Awards, and won the Bronze Festival Favorite Award in 2019, 2020, and 2021 at the Hear Now Festival.

George Mann
George Mann
Author · 75 books

George Mann is an author and editor, primarily in genre fiction. He was born in Darlington, County Durham in 1978. A former editor of Outland, Mann is the author of The Human Abstract, and more recently The Affinity Bridge and The Osiris Ritual in his Newbury and Hobbes detective series, set in an alternate Britain, and Ghosts of Manhattan, set in the same universe some decades later. He wrote the Time Hunter novella "The Severed Man", and co-wrote the series finale, Child of Time. He has also written numerous short stories, plus Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes audiobooks for Big Finish Productions. He has edited a number of anthologies including The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, The Solaris Book of New Fantasy and a retrospective collection of Sexton Blake stories, Sexton Blake, Detective, with an introduction by Michael Moorcock.

James Swallow
James Swallow
Author · 93 books

James Swallow is a New York Times, Sunday Times and Amazon #1 bestselling author and scriptwriter, a BAFTA nominee, a former journalist and the award-winning writer of over sixty books, along with scripts for video games, comics, radio and television. DARK HORIZON, his new stand-alone thriller, is out now from Welbeck; OUTLAW, the 6th Marc Dane novel, is published by Bonnier, and the 4th book in the series - SHADOW - is available in the USA from Forge. His writing includes the Marc Dane action thrillers, the Sundowners steampunk Westerns and fiction from the worlds of Star Trek, Marvel, Tom Clancy, Warhammer 40000, Doctor Who, 24, Deus Ex, Stargate, 2000AD and many more. For information on new releases & more, sign up to the Readers’ Club here: www.bit.ly/JamesSwallow Visit James' website at http://www.jswallow.com/ for more, including ROUGH AIR, a free eBook novella in the Marc Dane series. You can also follow James on Twitter at @jmswallow, Bluesky at @jmswallow.bsky.social, Mastodon at @jmswallow@mstdn.social and jmswallow.tumblr.com at Tumblr.

Eddie Robson
Eddie Robson
Author · 44 books

Eddie Robson is a comedy and science fiction writer best known for his sitcom Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully and his work on a variety of spin-offs from the BBC Television series Doctor Who. He has written books, comics and short stories, and has worked as a freelance journalist for various science fiction magazines. He is married to a female academic and lives in Lancaster. Robson's comedy writing career began in 2008 with material for Look Away Now. Since then his work has featured on That Mitchell and Webb Sound, Tilt, Play and Record, Newsjack, Recorded For Training Purposes and The Headset Set. The pilot episode of his sitcom Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on 5th July 2012. It starred Katherine Parkinson and Julian Rhind-Tutt. His Doctor Who work includes the BBC 7 radio plays Phobos, Human Resources and Grand Theft Cosmos, the CD releases Memory Lane, The Condemned, The Raincloud Man and The Eight Truths, and several short stories for Big Finish's Doctor Who anthologies, Short Trips. He has contributed comic strips to Doctor Who Adventures. Between 2007 and 2009, Robson was the producer of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield range of products, and has contributed four audio plays to the series. He has also written books on film noir and the Coen Brothers for Virgin Publishing, the Doctor Who episode guide Who's Next with co-authors Mark Clapham and Jim Smith, and an illustrated adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Andy Lane
Andy Lane
Author · 37 books

See also works published as Andrew Lane During 2009, Macmillan Books announced that Lane would be writing a series of books focusing on the early life of Sherlock Holmes. The series was developed in conjunction with the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Lane had already shown an extensive knowledge of the Holmes character and continuity in his Virgin Books novel All-Consuming Fire in which he created The Library of St. John the Beheaded as a meeting place for the worlds of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who. The first book in the 'Young Sherlock Holmes' series – Death Cloud – was published in the United Kingdom in June 2010 (February 2011 in the United States), with the second – Red Leech – published in the United Kingdom in November of that year (with a United States publication date under the title Rebel Fire of February 2012). The third book – Black Ice – was published in June 2011 in the UK while the fourth book – Fire Storm – was published originally in hardback in October 2011 with a paperback publication in March 2012. The fifth book, Snake Bite was published in hardback in October 2012 and the sixth book, Knife Edge was published in September 2013. Death Cloud was short-listed for both the 2010 North East Book Award. (coming second by three votes) and the 2011 Southampton's Favourite Book Award. Black Ice won the 2012 Centurion Book Award. Early in 2012, Macmillan Children's Books announced that they would be publishing a new series by Lane, beginning in 2013. The Lost World books will follow disabled 15-year-old Calum Challenger, who is co-ordinating a search from his London bedroom to find creatures considered so rare that many do not believe they exist. Calum's intention is to use the creatures' DNA to help protect the species, but also to search for a cure for his own paralysis. His team comprises a computer hacker, a free runner, an ex-marine and a pathological liar.

Simon Guerrier
Simon Guerrier
Author · 58 books

Simon Guerrier is a British science fiction author and dramatist, closely associated with the fictional universe of Doctor Who and its spinoffs. Although he has written three Doctor Who novels, for the BBC Books range, his work has mostly been for Big Finish Productions' audio drama and book ranges. Guerrier's earliest published fiction appeared in Zodiac, the first of Big Finish's Short Trips range of Doctor Who short story anthologies. To date, his work has appeared in the majority of the Short Trips collections. He has also edited three volumes in the series, The History of Christmas, Time Signature and How The Doctor Changed My Life. The second of these takes as its starting-point Guerrier's short story An Overture Too Early in The Muses. The third anthology featured stories entirely by previously unpublished writers. After contributing two stories to the anthology Life During Wartime in Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield range of books and audio dramas, Guerrier was invited to edit the subsequent year's short story collection, A Life Worth Living, and the novella collection Parallel Lives. After contributing two audio dramas to the series, Guerrier became the producer of the Bernice Summerfield range of plays and books, a post he held between January 2006 and June 2007. His other Doctor Who work includes the audio dramas, The Settling and The Judgement of Isskar, in Big Finish's Doctor Who audio range, three Companion Chronicles and a contribution to the UNIT spinoff series. He has also written a play in Big Finish's Sapphire and Steel range. Guerrier's work is characterised by character-driven humour and by an interest in unifying the continuity of the various Big Finish ranges through multiple references and reappearances of characters. As editor he has been a strong promoter of the work of various script writers from the Seventh Doctor era of the Doctor Who television series

Cavan Scott
Cavan Scott
Author · 91 books

is a freelance comic writer and author. He is best known for his work on a variety of spin-offs from both Doctor Who and Star Wars, as well as comics and novels for Vikings, Pacific Rim, Sherlock Holmes, and Penguins of Madagascar. Cavan Scott, along with Justina Ireland, Claudia Gray, Daniel Jose Older, and Charles Soule are crafting a new era in the Star Wars publishing world called Star Wars: The High Republic. Cavan's contribution to the era is a comic book series released through Marvel Comics titled Star Wars: The High Republic.

Richard Dinnick
Richard Dinnick
Author · 12 books

Richard is a writer for TV, comics and books. He is currently working on the TV show, Thunderbirds Are Go! and is a regular contributor to Titan's 12th Doctor ongoing comic - amongst other ranges. His new Doctor Who book, Myths & Legends is published in June 2017. In the past he has written audio drama scripts for franchises such as Doctor Who, Stargate, Sherlock Holmes and Sapphire & Steel. His first novel Alien Adventures was published by BBC Children’s Books in 2010 and he has since gone on to write books and short stories for Penguin UK, Titan Publishing, Black Library, Running Press and Snow Books.

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