ALSO OUT
As ever, there’s a teetering pile of other titles we couldn’t fit in. Comprising 29 bite-size morsels (all illustrated), Steve Cole and Paul Magrs’s DOCTOR WHO: 1001 NIGHTS IN TIME AND SPACE (out now, BBC Books) looks at elements of the series (be it Condo from “The Brain Of Morbius”, or the Abzorbaloff) through a fairy tale lens. Doctor Who historian/toy collector David Howe documents his love affair with the series in memoir WHO ME! (9 October, Bedford Square). And Rob Shearman has novelised two of his Big Finish audio dramas: Edwardian murder mystery THE CHIMES OF MIDNIGHT (9 October, BBC Books) and JUBILEE – an inspiration for the classic 2005 episode “Dalek”. A police procedural involving a time-travelling conspiracy, Nicholas Binge’s slim thriller EXTREMITY (out now, Tor) kicks off when two bodies are found – both the same body of a billionaire. The work of “SG Hartnell” (a pseudonym for BP Walter), MEDLOCK (out now, Sphere) is a gothic riff on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic The Secret Garden, centred on the housekeeper of a manor house in 1978. A mash-up of body horror and folk horror, Gemma Amor’s ITCH! (9 October, Hodder & Stoughton) centres on a village about to celebrate an annual festival, and a woman who finds an ant-infested body in the woods. Finally, Alien fans are surely the target market for SA Barnes’s COLD ETERNITY (9 October, Bantam), a slice of creepy space horror set on a drifting cryo-sleep crypt called Elysian Fields.