April 14th, 2018
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Target Novels Author Signed Editions Video
Signed copies are SOLD OUT
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I’m sure many ordered the signed copies via mail order, below is a video of Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat hard at work signing them – yours could be amongst them!…
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— Forbidden Planet (@ForbiddenPlanet) April 13, 2018
BBC Books are excited to announce the first Target novelisations of Doctor Who’s new post-2005 series.
- City Of Death signed by James Goss
- The Day Of The Doctor signed by Steven Moffat
- Twice Upon A Time signed by Paul Cornell
- Rose signed by Russell T Davies
- The Christmas Invasion signed by Jenny T Colgan
All 5 Standard Novels are available to order from www.amazon.co.uk
For the first time ever, Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat will be novelising their own episodes; Rose and The Day of the Doctor, joined by Paul Cornell novelising Twice Upon a Time, Jenny T Colgan novelising The Christmas Invasion and James Goss with the first Douglas Adams Target novelisation: City of Death.
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toptimelord
May 15th, 2018 - 11:15amHow can we make these terrific Target Doctor Who titles anymore special? By getting them signed! My heart was pounding when first ordering them hoping they wouldn’t sell out! Luckily I ordered all five signed and they are finally being delivered book by book! Just waiting for the last two now!
toptimelord
June 29th, 2018 - 5:32pmJust an update to say my last two signed Target Doctor Who books finally arrived! I have the whole set now!
Lucas1701
April 17th, 2018 - 5:57pmAnyone received their copies yet, or had confirmation they’ve been despatched? I preordered back in Feb and the FP website previously said they were expecting stock yesterday, but I’m concerned that they might have underestimated demand given they’re now sold out?
booboo
April 17th, 2018 - 6:04pmnon at all have been sent out so far, I expect a fixed amount of agreed signed copies were put up for pre-order so orders should be fulfilled. would imagine no need to worry at this point
unusually i noticed it took several days for the signed titans to get despatched
Lucas1701
April 17th, 2018 - 9:58pmThanks booboo! Just really looking forward to getting hold of Rose and Day Of The Doctor!
booboo
April 18th, 2018 - 9:01ambooks now being despatched, hope all goes well
booboo
April 18th, 2018 - 5:07pmthey only seem to be despatching Roae and Day of The Doctor today for some reason
Lucas1701
April 18th, 2018 - 6:50pmYep, mine have been despatched now. Hope everyone gets what they wanted!
The Truth
April 15th, 2018 - 7:34amIf it helps a lot of the BBC Doctor Who novels turn up at The Works every so often as have some of the reprints of the Target Books at huge discounted prices.
Including signed ones in the past so you never know if you want lots of them there is a chance once again.
Doctor Stu
April 14th, 2018 - 1:05pmRussell and Moffatt in the same room, there’s so much I could say but won’t
POTD
February 28th, 2018 - 12:19amOrdered Day of the Doctor. I suspect Moff especially will be spending a lot of time signing his name in April!
Doctor Mysterio
February 25th, 2018 - 7:28pmIt’s a shame these are only paperbacks as these could have been real collectors items.
Whorules
February 25th, 2018 - 10:06pmI’m a collector of books and really looking forward to these. Paperbacks are better, not all of the target books were done in hardcover, so not that much of a problem for me with these being paperback. And ut keeps the price down.
Ollie
February 25th, 2018 - 3:14pmI’ve preordered ‘Day’ and ‘Rose’. It’s a no brainer really for £6.99 for signed copy of each, considering how expensive autographs are these days. I saw that Peter Capaldi and Pearl Mackie are appearing at the London Comic Con in May. The price for Peter’s autograph is £75 and Pearl’s is £40-45.
Whorules
February 24th, 2018 - 9:37pmWasn’t sure about getting city of death as it’s an abridged version but as I’ve already got two versions of city of death i might as well get the third ‘target’ version
Sascha
February 24th, 2018 - 8:19pmAre These “Hand signed” Versions that They sell; or Are The Signatures Printed already during The Production of the book?
booboo
February 24th, 2018 - 8:59pmhand signed
76 Totters Lane
February 23rd, 2018 - 11:07pmJust ordered ‘Rose’ and ‘The Day of the Doctor’. They’re quite cheap for the RRP, considering that they’re signed.
Moodbeam
February 23rd, 2018 - 10:33pmDecided to go for ‘Rose’ and ‘Day.’ Hard to resist when they’re signed by the two men that have given us thirteen years of the show on TV.
Doctor Mysterio
February 23rd, 2018 - 7:46pmIs City Of Death a revised edition or a reprint?
Moodbeam
February 23rd, 2018 - 8:05pmFrom Digital Spy:
‘James Goss has taken on the Douglas Adams episode City of Death, which is one of the only classic Doctor Who episodes that was not included in the original Target novelisations. Better late than never, we suppose.’
ReddDalek
February 23rd, 2018 - 8:32pmDouglas Adams estate wanted lots of money to novelise both stories hence the 40 year gap.
Whorules
February 24th, 2018 - 1:33amIt will be a reprint
Alex
February 24th, 2018 - 4:24amI believe it’s essentially a Revised version. An abridged version of his original book in order to fit within Target page counts.
Anonymous
February 24th, 2018 - 1:27pmWhat would be the point of that! Besides, just ignore the 224 pages thing, none of the other reprints ever had an accurate page count announced.
Anonymous
February 24th, 2018 - 1:31pmWell I’ve just read that it’s an abridged version, so I’m cancelling that one. Not much point buying a shorter version of a book i already own.
Anonymous
February 24th, 2018 - 1:34pmI’ve just read that it is an abridged version so I’m cancelling that one. Don’t see the point buying a shorter version. They should have just reprinted it. Power and evil of the daleks are 250 plus pages, seems a bit silly to do this.
Whorules
February 24th, 2018 - 2:15pmDisappointed it’s abridged. Might still get but will probably read once then continue reading full version when rereading in future.
Alex
February 24th, 2018 - 3:03pmI believe the idea behind the abridged version is that it’s then a Target book, the Target books being known for their relatively short length. The Power of the Daleks novelisation that you mentioned was essentially a co-production between Target and Virgin. Virgin had the longer books, not Target. Hence why the idea of this is to have City of Death done in the Target format rather than long-form format.
Whorules
February 24th, 2018 - 5:24pmBut does that mean if they reprinted power and evil they would shorten them? To be fair they could do with editing, but I’d hope we’d get the full novels.
Pip
February 23rd, 2018 - 3:06pmTempted to get a couple of these what with them being signed. Urgh this last couple of days have cost me a fortune, why does everything release at once?!
matt parker
February 23rd, 2018 - 1:41pmGreat retro Target covers – I thought we must be due for some new books soon, I expected re-issues, but no….brand new Target books….very exciting …looking forward to seeing the last 2 covers
Doctorfan
February 23rd, 2018 - 1:40pmprobably get day of the doctor and twice upon a time as signed editions but just get the others as standard editions.