Even with only one television episode, 2026 is already shaping up to be a bumper year for Doctor Who in novels and audio
We’re only two months into the new year. However, an impressive range of books and audios are already on the calendar. The past couple of weeks have seen several new announcements, in addition to some of the releases we already knew about. The covers for the next three Target novelisations are here, as well as the readers for their audiobooks. There’s also the first hint of 2027’s Target lineup.
There are also new original audiobooks featuring the First and Eleventh Doctors, a BBC Audio novelisation of Sixth Doctor audio drama Slipback, and even a short story collection featuring the Memory TARDIS from Tales of the TARDIS.
Continue reading for full details of the upcoming books and audios.
Doctor Who books and audios to expect in 2026 and beyond
Doctor Who: Stormcage – a River Song Adventure by Alex Kingston with Jacqueline Rayner and Steve Cole – 12th February 2026
Find where to order Stormcage here!
Doctor Who: Star Flight by Paul Hayes – 5th March 2026
Christopher Naylor reads a brand-new adventure for the First Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara.
The TARDIS materialises on board Cavis Sunliners Flight 307, a regularly scheduled passenger flight using a revolutionary type of interstellar travel.
Following an act of sabotage the ship is boarded by a large, levitating alien creature who demands the return of ‘an artefact’. Influencing the ship’s AI pilot, Pym, the Kleede threatens to shut off all life support.
With Pym and the Kleede engaged in a deadlock battle for control, and more aliens on their way, the Doctor must help the crew outwit their attackers. But time is running out…
Find where to order Star-Flight here!
Doctor Who: Aliens of London by Joseph Lidster – 26th March 2026
The Doctor brings Rose home a year after she left… to find London in chaos. A spaceship has crashed into the Thames and an alien body lies in the wreckage. The Doctor uncovers a chilling conspiracy at the heart of Downing Street as ruthless alien invaders take control – members of the Family Slitheen.
The Doctor, Rose, and the MP for Flydale North must fight to expose the Slitheen infiltration – before the Earth falls prey to a deadly interstellar con that will ignite World War Three.
Also available as an audiobook read by Camille Coduri (Jackie Tyler).
Find where to order Aliens of London here!
Doctor Who: The Satan Pit by Matt Jones – 26th March 2026
The Doctor and Rose travel to Krop Tor – an impossible planet orbiting a black hole, defying the laws of physics. With the TARDIS lost to them, trapped with a crew of human explorers and their alien servants, the Ood, they find ancient ruins… and something far older and darker stirring beneath the surface.
Whispers speak of a malevolent force imprisoned since before time – something that even the Doctor fears. As seismic horrors rise and minds begin to fracture, one terrifying question remains: What if the Devil is real?
Also available as a multi-reader audiobook performed by Claire Rushbrook (Ida), Ronny Jhutti (Danny), Silas Carson (the Ood) and Maureen O’Brien
Find where to order The Satan Pit here!
Doctor Who: The Time of Angels by Jenny Colgan – 26th March 2026
An improbable call for help from River Song draws the Doctor and Amy to the wreck of the starship Byzantium on the world of Alfava Metraxis. The wreck contains a deadly cargo – a Weeping Angel, determined to escape. And the starship’s crash site, infringing on a sprawling subterranean tomb, is no coincidence.
In uneasy alliance with a squad of military clerics, the Doctor’s investigation becomes a desperate battle to survive as an army of implacable, quantum-locked killers grows ever stronger – and flesh becomes stone.
Also available as an audiobook read by Maureen O’Brien
Find out where to order The Time of Angels here!
Doctor Who: Slipback by Eric Saward – 2nd April 2026
Jon Glover (Shelligbourne Grant) reads this novelisation of an outlandish adventure for the Sixth Doctor and Peri.
The TARDIS materialises aboard the Vipod Mor, a galactic survey ship captained by the repulsive Orlous Moston Slarn.
Things are not going well on board the spacecraft. A mysterious killer stalks the infrastructure, and a junior officer – whose body is four years older than his brain – commands its bridge. The craft’s computer seems to be developing its own distinctive personality, and Slarn threatens to vent his vindictive anger on his crew.
Soon the Doctor and Peri stumble on a shocking secret, upon which depends the fate of the entire Universe…
Find where to order Slipback here!
Doctor Who: The Rescue – 18th April 2026
Brand new and exclusive for Record Store Day 2026, a narrated TV soundtrack on vinyl of the 1965 serial The Rescue starring William Hartnell as the First Doctor.
Comprising two episodes, The Powerful Enemy and Desperate Measures, the story features the debut of companion Vicki, played by Maureen O’Brien who now provides newly recorded linking narration and a bonus behind-the-scenes interview.
The Doctor, Ian (William Russell) and Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) discover a crashed spaceship on the planet Dido in the 25th Century. Survivors Vicki and Bennett are menaced by a terrifying native named Koquillion – or are they? The travellers risk their lives to discover the truth.
The Rescue will be exclusively in record shops on the 18th of April for Record Store Day. Find full details here!
Doctor Who: Circle of Memory by Bob Ayers – 7th May 2026
“Hello, I’m the Doctor… Doctor someone… can’t remember who at the moment. Hoping it will come back to me.”
On a planet with twin suns, three people wake in the shadow of a crashed spaceship. They don’t know who they are or where they are. All they have to go on is a photograph of themselves marked ‘Amy and her boys: Rory and the Doctor’. It’s obvious who Amy is – but which of them is the Doctor?
A voice recorder in one of their pockets reveals how the TARDIS materialised some days earlier in the centre of a stone circle and the travellers met blue-skinned Sunaya, apparent sole survivor of the crashed ship.
Yet Sunaya isn’t who she claims to be, and she is also far from alone. She and her children have been waiting to feed on the memories and identities of the living.
And as their own memories fade, the Doctor, Amy and Rory are in danger of being left behind for ever…
Dan Starkey, who has played several roles in the BBC TV series, reads Bob Ayres’s intriguing tale.
Find where to order Circle of Memory here!
Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood by Terrance Dicks – 4th June 2026
Chanting, hooded figures gather inside a ring of ancient stones, using rituals of blood sacrifice to awaken the sleeping evil of the Ogri.
Landing on late-20th Century Earth, the Doctor and Romana find science and ancient mysticism in opposition when they meet the eccentric Professor Rumford, her friend Miss Fay, and their mysterious neighbour Leonard De Vries.
Shuttling between coastal countryside and a deep-space cruiser trapped in hyperspace, the duo attempt to track down an alien criminal and unravel the mystery of the stones of blood. Luckily, they have the help of the faithful K-9…
Geoffrey Beevers reads Terrance Dicks’s 1980 novelisation of the BBC TV serial by David Fisher, with John Leeson providing the authentic Voice of K-9.
Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker by Jo Martin – 6th October 2026
Strange alien artifacts begin appearing inside UNIT’s Black Archive. Each object is unmistakably linked to a different incarnation of the Doctor, but they’ve been tampered with. A corrupted energy signature of unknown origin pulses through them, and their sudden arrival has torn tiny ruptures across time and space.
UNIT is out of options. To repair the damage and restore the timeline, the objects must be returned to the exact moments they were taken from. If not, the Doctor’s adventures – and the universe itself – could unravel.
To solve the mystery, UNIT calls upon a little-known incarnation of the Time Lord: the Fugitive Doctor, played by Jo Martin, who returns in a central role. But how does UNIT know about her? And is she the Doctor they expect?
Doctor Who: Tales of the TARDIS – 22nd October 2026
Somewhere out there, in the gaps between time and space, is a TARDIS like no other.
In its console room, controls cover the walls and ceilings. And over the years Doctors and old friends have reunited here, to remember their travels, from the dawn of human history to distant alien worlds. They are like ripples on an eternal pond that are forever moving and forever repeating.
Now you can discover eight incredible tales from the Memory TARDIS, scattered across the seasons of earth. Susan and the Doctor reminisce on a bonfire night to remember, Yasmin Khan and her old friend talk about terror at the summer solstice, and the Doctor and Clara remember Christmas and killer toys.
New Target Novelisation TBA by James Goss – 15th April 2027
There are no details yet on which Doctor Who stories will be adapted for next year’s batch of Target Books. However, we do know that the first of them will arrive on the 15th of April, written by James Goss. One possibility, given that Goss previously adapted The Giggle and Lux, is a completion of the loose ‘Gods’ trilogy with The Devil’s Chord.
