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Screen Printed The Definitive Guide

New from Wonderful Books

SCREEN PRINTED

The Definitive Guide to the Exciting Adventures Based On the Popular BBC Television Serial

Compiled, written and designed by PAUL MC SMITH – author of ‘The Doctor Who DVD Compendium’ and ‘The TARDIS Chronicles’

Since 2016 Paul has produced ‘Based On The Popular BBC Television Serial’, a free PDF cataloguing every novelisation of the broadcast episodes of Doctor Who – mainly the much-loved TARGET range but also BBC Books’ more recent reprints and modern series adaptations, plus their re-release on audio.

Five years since the last edition and with the audiobook range now complete, the guide has been further updated, expanded with new information and totally redesigned – and is now available in print for the first time.

SCREEN PRINTED is a 550-page, full-colour A4 hardback that is the ultimate guide to every novelisation of a broadcast Doctor Who story. That’s almost 1,100 different editions of 199 titles over the past 62 years.

Part collector’s guide, part chronicle of the publishing history of this unique range of TV adaptations, at the heart of the book is the catalogue of every print and audio edition ever released. Each title has the publication dates of its first and subsequent printings, both in the UK and elsewhere, original prices and details of their cover variants – over 800 in all. Initially compiled to establish a definitive list from numerous, often inconsistent sources, and repeatedly refined over the last ten years by tracking down the actual books, this has now been thoroughly revised with new sources of information to present the most accurate digest yet produced of print editions of the Doctor’s on-screen adventures.

Added to this are comprehensive notes on the publishing history of each title, how they’ve been repeatedly reprinted for new young readers to discover, and where their eye-catching cover art has been seen again, in print, exhibitions and even on other books. Each painting – by admired artists such as Chris Achilléos, Andrew Skilleter and Alister Pearson – has its original reference sources identified, with some surprising discoveries. And the audiobook readings are brought bang up to date with details of recording dates, readers, timings and more. Plus charts of each book’s pages-per-episode now include the audiobooks’ disc breakdowns.

A further major addition is analysis by JIM SANGSTER, writer of the Escape to Danger blog, of how each novelisation differed, expanded or even contradicted what was in the original scripts. Whether made by the television writers themselves or intrepid storytellers like Terrance Dicks and Ian Marter, these changes show how the books worked to inspire the reader’s imagination, not merely transcribe what had been shown on screen.

If you’ve ever read or collected the Doctor’s adventures in print, then SCREEN PRINTED is your ultimate guide through those pages of wonder.

SCREEN PRINTED is available now for £36.87. Details and the link to purchase at www.wonderfulbook.co.uk

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