Jo Martin, who plays the Fugitive Doctor, has written her own Doctor Who novel — and it brings back Tenth Doctor companion, Martha Jones!
Martha, of course, was played on screen by Freema Agyeman, who made her debut in Smith and Jones; Martin, meanwhile, plays a forgotten incarnation of the Doctor — appropriate, then, that The Kaleidoscope, the upcoming novel, also includes the Silence, the memory-wiping species seen in the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) era!
Here’s the blurb:
When memories lie, the truth can be fatal.
In the aftermath of an improbable mission, the Fugitive Doctor and Martha realise that something is interfering with their minds. Something that doesn’t want to be found.
Their investigation leads to a curious artefact in the British Museum: an apparently medieval toy known as the Kaleidoscope. But the object refuses to stay in one place, one time – or one identity. And when the Doctor is repeatedly mistaken for someone she’s never met, fragments of unfamiliar memories begin to surface.
Across the Earth, a hidden pattern emerges; evidence of a secret that someone has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal. As ancient enemies close in and innocent lives are put at risk, the Doctor learns the hard way that some truths were buried for a reason…
A key instalment of the Doctor Who transmedia event Circuit Breaker, this novel is written by the Fugitive Doctor herself, Jo Martin – and also features Martha Jones (as played by Freema Agyeman) together with the Unified Intelligence Taskforce, or UNIT.
The book is part of the wider Circuit Breaker multi-media event that also encompasses comics, audio, and games, all forming around the “Fugitive” Doctor, so called as she made her first appearance in Fugitive of the Judoon. And it’s pretty cool that this is written (or partly written, perhaps, given she was likely joined by a ghost writer too; a common practise in novels by celebrities) by Jo Martin herself.
Oh, and is that the Fugitive Doctor’s very own sonic screwdriver on the cover? More on that soon…
The Kaleidoscope is available to pre-order now, and is released on 3rd September 2026.
