There's a new bookazine from DWM out this week - primarily an in-depth look at the novelisations of all of the televised stories from An Unearthly Child to The Church on Ruby Road.
This means mainly the Target range, but we also get the various foreign versions plus some spin-off material like Downtime, Scream of the Shalka and The Pescatons.
Novels of The Sarah Jane Adventures episodes which were televised are also included.
It goes right up to date with the recent novelisations of the 60th Anniversary Specials and Ncuti Gatwa's Christmas debut.
The main focus, however, are the books of the classic era, as everyone of these was published - often more than once.
Each story is covered, with the different reissue covers. Some of the newer authors give their favourites of the classic releases.
We also have larger features on a few of the main writers for the Target range - David Whitaker, Donald Cotton, Gerry Davis, Terrance Dicks, Malcolm Hulke, Ian Marter, Philip Hinchcliffe, Eric Saward, Chris Bidmead, Peter Grimwade and Pip & Jane Baker.
Towards the back there's a brief look at the audiobooks as well.
If you have The Target Book, you'll love this. Unlike that tome, this covers non-Target versions of the novels. It's certainly a visual treat, with some larger versions of the cover art (including some unused covers).
As a bookazine, it isn't covered by any subscription so you'll have to order it separately like the yearly Chronicles. RRP is £11.99.
The publication comes with a free audiobook. Bizarrely, mine was a non-televised adventure, and not even one of the semi-canonical spin-offs - so nothing to do with the content of the bookazine.
It's a Thirteenth Doctor story - presumably one which failed miserably to sell - which will be headed, unopened, straight to a local charity shop.
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