BBC Books has teamed up with Big Finish to launch novelisations of two Doctor Who audio adventures — both by the wonderful Rob Shearman!
Jubilee and The Chimes of Midnight, stories for the Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker) and Eighth Doctor (Paul McGann) respectively, are to be adapted by Shearman (Dalek), who wrote the original audio scripts back in 2002 and 2003. These also include companions created for Big Finish, namely Evelyn Smythe (Maggie Stables) and Charley Pollard (India Fisher).
These could be the start of something really very exciting.
Here are the blurbs:
Jubilee
“The Doctor and the Daleks. Have you never thought they are really both the exact same thing?”

It is time to celebrate! Let all the citizens of the glorious English Empire come together and give thanks to that mysterious soldier in time and space known only as the Doctor. For 100 years ago he destroyed a Dalek invasion force without mercy, and became the saviour of us all.
We have just one real Dalek left. Kept alive in the Tower of London, all these years our prisoner. And tomorrow we are going to blow it up, just for you! So put up your Dalek bunting and raise a glass of Dalek Juice. Who knows, there may be a special guest in attendance – the Doctor himself! Oh, you lucky people!
Time to get this party started…
The Chimes of Midnight
‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house not a creature was stirring…
But something must be stirring. Something hidden in the shadows. Something which kills the servants of an old Edwardian mansion in the most brutal and macabre manner possible. Exactly on the chiming of the hour, every hour, as the grandfather clock ticks on towards midnight.
Trapped and afraid, the Doctor and his companion, Charley, are forced to play detective to murders with no motive, where even the victims don’t stay dead. Time is running out.
And time itself might well be the killer…
Jubilee and The Chimes of Midnight are released in hardback and on Kindle on 9th October 2025.