Three new Target novelisations of Doctor Who stories have been announced at this year’s Target Book Day, all due out early next year.

These stories feature the Ninth (Christopher Eccleston), Tenth (David Tennant), and Eleventh (Matt Smith) Doctors, alongside popular antagonists, the Slitheen, the Ood and the Beast, and the Weeping Angels.

Joseph Lidster is adapting the Series 1 story, Aliens of London/ World War; Matt Jones will be writing the novelisation for his own Series 2 story, The Impossible Planet/ The Satan Pit; and Jenny Colgan is taking on The Time of Angels/ Flesh and Stone from Series 5.

All three sound brilliant, but perhaps the most intriguing will be Jones’, seeing as The Impossible Planet/ The Satan Pit is a much-loved two-parter that he freely admits was reworked by showrunner, Russell T Davies, by quite a great extent. Will we learn more about Jones’ original scripts, or will he stick more to what we saw on TV?

Lidster, meanwhile, has written for Big Finish, The Sarah Jane Adventures, and Torchwood; while Colgan, a celebrated author away from Who, has also contributed to Big Finish. She previously wrote for Matt Smith’s Doctor in the 2012 novel, Dark Horizons.

Though fans often insult the two-parter that introduced the Slitheen, I actually really like it — indeed, I think all three of these will be superb, and I can’t wait to read them.

Target Book Day 2025 was on Saturday 19th July, and during the event, Lidster and Colgan read out extracts from their respective tales. BBC Books’ Albert DePetrillo and Steve Cole pointed out that these were unedited so some material might change before publication.

More Target novels are promised for next year too.

The books will be released on 26th March 2026, 21 years after Rose debuted on BBC1 and relaunched Doctor Who.