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.

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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