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Doctor Who: The Second Earth Adventures Collection
Doctor Who: The Second Earth Adventures Collection
Nov 30, 2025 4:53 PM

Author:Terrance Dicks,John Lucarotti,Ian Marter,Malcolm Kohll,Carole Ann Ford,Peter Purves,David Troughton,Louise Jameson,Bonnie Langford

Doctor Who: The Second Earth Adventures Collection

A collection of five classic TV novelisations featuring the Doctor's hectic adventures on Earth.

"Slick and polished...immersive productions of much-loved novelisations...long may we enjoy them." - Doctor Who Magazine

In Planet of Giants present day England becomes a nightmare landscape when a freak accident causes the TARDIS and its occupants to be reduced to miniature size.

In The Massacre the Doctor and Steven land in 16th Century Paris, where danger stalks the streets.

In The Invasion present day London has been infiltrated by International Electromatics in collaboration with the Cybermen.

In The Horror of Fang Rock the TARDIS lands on a foggy island beset by death and disaster.

In Delta and the Bannermen the Doctor and Mel find themselves holed up in a remote Welsh holiday camp, where several of the holidaymakers are not what they first appear...

Carole Ann Ford, Peter Purves, David Troughton, Louise Jameson and Bonnie Langford read these classic tales, first published as Target Books in the 1970s and 1980s. Nicholas Briggs provides the authentic voice of the Cybermen.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in along with the audio.

(P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Reviews

Slick and polished...immersive productions of much-loved novelisations...long may we enjoy them

—— Doctor Who Magazine

A landmark in fiction, the work of a master

—— Ursula K Le Guin

This is classic Calvino, making you think and laugh at the same time

—— John Self

The closest thing we have to an autobiography by Lispector and contain many rewarding reflections on her own work . . . thrillingly unpredictable . . . singular visitations from a brilliant entity

—— Nick Holdstock , Literary Review

Lispector writes and thinks like nobody else, sending her readers off to look at the world through strange new lispectacles

—— Miranda France , TLS

An emblematic twentieth-century artist who belongs in the same pantheon as Kafka and Joyce

—— Edmund White

Plenty of writers inspire fierce devotion in their readers... but no one converts the uninitiated into devout believers as suddenly and as vertiginously as Clarice Lispector, the Latin American visionary, Ukrainian-Jewish mystic, and middle-class housewife and mother so revered by her Brazilian fans that she's known by a single name: "Clarice"

—— New Republic

She writes with sensuous verve, bringing her earliest passions into adult life intact, along with a child's undiminished capacity for wonder

—— The New York Times Book Review

For those unfamiliar with her, this book opens a door into her uniquely challenging and rewarding body of work . . . the pieces, some amounting to a few sentences, some many pages long, make up a self-portrait in bits and pieces. The result is, like Lispector herself, witty, mystical, surreal and profound: a treasure to return to again and again

—— Madoc Cairns , Guardian

Her crônicas - short pieces of observational writing inflected by personal experience but aimed at illuminating something larger - came after her novels, and met with great acclaim... Reading Lispector is unlike reading anyone else...the texts collected in Too Much Life evidence a perspicacious and playful mind keen to share in the magic and mystery of living.

—— Franklin Nelson , Financial Times

A golden apple has to go to the extraordinary Too Much of Life: Complete chronicles by Clarice Lispector ... a collection of newspaper columns, bursting with lapidary wisdom and hallucinatory, voluptuous imagery

—— Keith Miller , TLS Books of the Year

Too Much of Life is an extraordinary collection of fragmented, essayistic, fictive thoughts ... vast, playful and volcanic

—— Carlos Valladares , Gagosian Quarterly

Beautifully written with a hint of mythology and well-drawn characters, this is a captivating story of love and loss that will stay with you

—— Candis

An absolutely beautiful story of love, loss, family and motherhood. Told in interweaving strands, it follows the story of Scottie whose mysterious past haunts her, and whose own struggles to become a mother is slowly destroying her . . . I read this book in just two sittings, the lyrical prose pulled me in and held me captivated, and my heart wept and sang in equal measure. Truly stunning

—— Louise Morrish, author of Operation Moonlight

Annie Kirby writes so beautifully about place, I felt I was there with her on the islands, watching the waves. I love how she weaves together myth and reality, and found her portrayal of Scottie and Jasminder's thwarted attempts to have children very moving

—— Sarah Butler, author of Before The Fire

The Hollow Sea elegantly interweaves the stories of two women haunted by hope and loss. Eloquent and moving, with a touch of folklore, this is a beautiful, hopeful tale

—— Elizabeth Lee, author of Cunning Women

Heart-wrenching, haunting, and ultimately hopeful too. Extraordinary. Beautiful, thought-provoking and woven through with folklore and myth, an utterly absorbing read that will touch your heart. Magnificent. Unforgettable.

—— Liz Hyder, author of The Gifts

Fiercely original . . . a really powerful, provocative and original debut

—— Natasha Solomons, author of I, Mona Lisa

An exquisitely-crafted novel about heritage, folklore and the persistent roar of unfulfilled dreams. When I finished it, I felt like I'd emerged from the sea, dripping with salt and tangled in kelp. Dizzyingly brilliant

—— Lizzie Pook, author of Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter

A Coast 'Book of the Month'

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Incredibly atmospheric and multifaceted

—— Culturefly

TJR is surely the queen of escapist fiction

—— Sunday Telegraph

This top-rank tale of beating the odds is full of heart and breezy charm

—— Metro

Altogether, it makes for a gripping and engaging read about a woman persevering against all odds, recognising your limits and knowing when to push back. As well as a complex and nuanced character study, Carrie Soto is Back offers its readers a warm-hearted story of the love between a father and a daughter, as well a tender journey of learning how to love yourself and open up to others too. Between the action-packed tennis matches, Carrie's emotional reckoning and the wider commentary of women having to continuously fight for recognition in male-dominated fields, Taylor Jenkins Reid has crafted another compelling novel that effortlessly draws in readers and will no doubt keep them thinking about Carrie Soto long after they turn the final page

—— Culturefly

At times, her prose is so engaging that you feel as though you are waiting on the baseline while Soto gets ready to serve an unstoppable ace

—— Independent (Ireland)

In Carrie Soto is Back, as at Flushing Meadows this and next month, there are great rivalries, millions of dollars and legacies on the line. Letting go cuts deep. But, boy, there is glamour

—— Tatler

The author has created another heroine we can't quite work out whether we like, but we're rooting for her anyway because she's fabulous

—— Woman's Weekly

Another delectable slice of escapism drama

—— Living North

Pacy, propulsive and utterly immersive, you're going to want to read this

—— Elle

Taylor has done it again . . . a brilliant and dynamic book about what it means to be an ambitious woman- for better or for worse

—— Woman

With a wonderfully complex character, a world you can't help being seduced by, and an important message about it never being too late, TJR has served up another ace

—— Heat

Frank, funny and emotional

—— Marie Claire

A fascinatingly realistic look into the world of elite sports where driven and flawed characters' private lives are just as intriguing and controversial as they are on the court

—— Business Post

This is a well-researched, exciting and genuinely tender book

—— RTÉ
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