January 9th, 2025
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Doctor Who The Chimes of Midnight Hardcover
Available to order from www.amazon.co.uk
‘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…
Featuring the Eight Doctor as played on TV by Paul McGann and Charley Pollard as played on audio by India Fisher, The Chimes of Midnight is the second novelisation of a Big Finish audio drama after Jubilee – also by prize-winning playwright and short story writer Robert Shearman.
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The Toymaker
January 10th, 2025 - 2:46amLove this! Can’t wait for inevitable Target editions too. I’ve long thought Big Finish should novelise, and animate, some of their stories. This is particularly great for hearing impaired fans. I hope we see more, I’d love to see Spare Parts and Spectre of Llanyon Moor.
DalekAgent
January 9th, 2025 - 11:09pmIm gonna confess something, i have never listened to the audio of this lol
Chris
January 10th, 2025 - 2:29amIt’s really good..def worth a listen
SV7
January 9th, 2025 - 9:30pmJust thought, they could release an audiobook of this and Jubilee.
An audiobook of an audio drama. Strange, eh? 😉
The Fishmonger
January 9th, 2025 - 5:55pmLooking forward to this and Jubilee. I hope the covers are nice!
Paul Mount
January 9th, 2025 - 3:08pmWe DO have a Target paperback of the “Frazer” Evil, albeit a limited edition given away with Dr Who Magazine late last year. These Big Finish novels should not and will not form part of the Target range as they ARE NOT CANON.
Auton
January 9th, 2025 - 3:38pmThey are canon, end of story!
Bookcollector
January 9th, 2025 - 3:56pmYes, but that target version is not the original novel. It is a different version of the Fraser Hines novel. It’s a good version but I have several friends who didn’t buy the hardcover as they prefer paperbacks. A few of them have ended up buying the hardcover in case that full version doesn’t get a release in paperback. As to canon… who continuity has never made sense so what’s the point in worrying! If the story is good and you think its canon so bit it! The original series contradicted itself on numerous occasions so it really doesn’t matter. For me I just like the idea of having novelisations of some, not all (some I wouldn’t buy) big finish stories.
Mac
January 9th, 2025 - 4:39pmPaul likes his cannon but dislikes plum pudding.
More then 2 alphabets
January 9th, 2025 - 4:48pmWow….canon police!
This is ALL canon, this is ALL NOT canon.
Take your choice, I think this is a great idea
rich
January 9th, 2025 - 4:51pmPaul has persuaded me that these are canon.
O
January 9th, 2025 - 5:31pmMight not be canon to you but they’re canon to me. 🙂
Jason Z
January 9th, 2025 - 6:30pmMaybe it’s canon, but not the canon Paul was expecting?
Matt
January 9th, 2025 - 6:47pmSee you when they release the paperback version in the Target style 😛
David
January 9th, 2025 - 9:12pmThere literally IS NO CANON for Doctor Who. They’re novelisations of performed Doctor Who stories, just like any other Target.
LegoK9
January 9th, 2025 - 10:28pm“To ensure that the plays remain faithful to the Doctor Who TV series in terms of style and content, BBC Worldwide has understandably insisted the right to approve all storylines and scripts. To this end, Stephen Cole — consultant to the Doctor Who book and video ranges at Worldwide — has been appointed executive producer for the BBC for Big Finish’s Doctor Who output.
‘Cole commented: “As far as the BBC is concerned, these new stories are seen as part of the official Doctor Who canon. A great deal of responsibility comes with that status, and Worldwide did not assign this licence without careful thought.”
—DWM 275, 1999
Bellal
January 9th, 2025 - 1:39pmInstant purchase if I ever saw one
Bookcollector
January 9th, 2025 - 2:33pmI’m happy these are being done but in these days of financial problems wouldn’t paperbacks be better? £22 is a lot and I feel that given the huge amount of stories a straight to paperback release would be more affordable for people. The other question of course is will these then become target books and if so will those target books be alternative versions like evil of the daleks? Considering we still have no paperback of the original evil Fraser book it makes me wonder if we will get a paperback shop release for that and will we get a paperback of these? I will get these, I’ve cut right back on who books now and only really but the adaptions now which these fit into. So go on… choices for releases?
Sirens of time seems an obvious one.
Eye of the scorpion for Davison
Dust breeding for McCoy if we are going to get one per doctor.
Demdike@CultLabs
January 9th, 2025 - 3:09pm@Bookcollector – good choices for possible releases but the common denominator with the two books up for pre-order is they are both adapted by Robert Shearman from his own work.
We don’t know if the BBC have any other authors lined up at all, i guess they’ll be seeing how well these sell first.
Bookcollector
January 9th, 2025 - 3:51pmI have heard from an author about a secret project linked to a big finish character that would fit with these books. I know nothing for certain but it would be nice if it were true.
Demdike@CultLabs
January 9th, 2025 - 1:13pmDelighted about this. Two cracking stories. I’d love Chimes in particular as it will be an ideal December read and have more substance to it than Ten Days of Christmas that i read this December.