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Doctor Who: Rose
Dec 25, 2025 4:57 AM

Author:Russell T Davies,Camille Coduri

Doctor Who: Rose

Camille Coduri reads this brand new novelisation of the Ninth Doctor’s debut TV adventure. “Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life!”

In a lair somewhere beneath central London, a malevolent alien intelligence is plotting the end of humanity. Shop window dummies that can move – and kill – are taking up key positions, ready to strike.

Rose Tyler, an ordinary Londoner, is working her shift in a department store, unaware that this is the most important day of her life. She’s about to meet the only man who understands the true nature of the threat facing Earth, a stranger who will open her eyes to all the wonder and terror of the universe – a traveller in time and space known as the Doctor. This is the story that relaunched Doctor Who for the 21st Century, novelised by showrunner Russell T Davies from his original script. Running time: 4 hours 10 mins.

(p) BBC Worldwide 2018

© BBC Worldwide 2018

Novelisation copyright © Russell T Davies 2018

Original script copyright © Russell T Davies 2005

Cover illustration by Anthony Dry

BBC logo © BBC 1996

Doctor Who logo © BBC 2014

For BBC Worldwide:

Reading produced by Neil Gardner

Recorded at Ladbroke Audio Ltd

Sound design by David Darlington

Executive producer: Michael Stevens

TARDIS sound effect composed by Brian Hodgson

For BBC Books:

Editorial Director: Albert DePetrillo

Project Editor: Steve Cole

Cover design: Two Associates

Cover illustration: Anthony Dry

Doctor Who: Rose first published by BBC Books in 2018

Reviews

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—— Marian Keyes

Makes entertaining play of the rivalry between mums and non-mums

—— Telegraph

A firecracker of a novel

—— Liane Moriarty

A darkly droll page-turner

—— Publishers Weekly

Super addictive, cleverly plotted and ridiculously relatable, Those Other Women by Nicola Moriarty is yet another captivating read from the wildly talented Moriarty family. I raced through this book in a single sitting and was genuinely upset when I had to part ways with the characters in the end. This is definitely one of those books where the characters begin to feel like your new best friends within the first few chapters

—— Booktopia

This novel shows the same sharp eye for neat plotting that Nicola Moriarty revealed in her last novel, The Fifth Letter. Moriarty is fair-minded about this conflict, often manages to be funny about it, and deftly employs the features and uses of Facebook to kick along the plot

—— Sydney Morning Herald

Nicola Moriarty instinctively knows what we want to read and gives it to us on a platter - juicy, topical, honestly raw and full of twists and turns that we never see coming, Those Other Women does everything right

—— Tess Woods

Moriarty trains a spotlight on the pitfalls of social media and how quickly rumour is presented as fact

—— Courier Mail

Super addictive, cleverly plotted and ridiculously relatable . . . the characters begin to feel like your new best friends

—— 9 Honey

A darkly droll page-turner . . . a tasty divertissement

—— Publishers Weekly

Praise for Nicola Moriarty

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The premise and its execution will grab readers and refuse to let go. An author to watch

—— Booklist

With secrets and intrigue, this is a compulsive read

—— Sun on Sunday

Entertaining

—— Sunday Mirror

A darkly humorous story about friendship

—— Best

Intrigue, hatred and accusations - phew, it kept me guessing to the end

—— Sun

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—— Sarah Ditum , New Statesman

Meg Wolitzer bores into the barbed tangles of contemporary feminism with disarming charm… Captures the ambition and angst of growing up with warmth and wisdom in a book that’s at once searingly intelligent and gloriously light.

—— Lucy Brooks , CultureWhisper

Meg Wolitzer's tale of feminism's generational differences is much richer than mere polemical tract

—— Lucy Scholes , Independent

An effortless read

—— Stylist

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it deftly interweaves the political with the personal... clear and smart

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[Woltizer is] interested in the complexities of being female… This is an unashamedly traditional novel of ideas, not afraid to boldly inhabit the moment we live in

—— Claire Allfree , Daily Telegraph

A significant contribution to Wolitzer’s body of work

—— Alex Clark , Guardian

Wolitzer’s prose is direct and engaging… her characters feel alive and individual

—— Josie Mitchell , Literary Review

My favourite book of the year… Wolitzer deserves more recognition: she is as talented a storyteller as Donna Tartt, as funny as Jonathan Franzen, but she has her own distinct brilliance

—— Rebecca Rose , Financial Times, **Books of the Year**

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The end will leave you simmering with impotent rage, which sounds about right for 2018

—— Lucy Hunter Johnston , Evening Standard, **Books of the Year**

There’s lots to enjoy here – the plot is pacy and you’ll come to care and deeply invest in these characters through Wolitzer’s brilliantly sharp prose

—— Ella Walker , Herald Scotland

- Meg Wolitzer captures the zeitgeist like no one else

—— Elle

[W]arm and witty, and necessary… With affection and generosity, Wolitzer exposes the limits of power

—— Eva Wiseman , Observer
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