New Releases by Justin Richards

"I blame those new Brainy Crisps. Since he started eating them, he''s been too clever by half." Can eating a bag of crisps really make you more clever? The company that makes the crisps says so, and they seem to be right. But the Doctor is worried. Who would want to make people more brainy? And why? With just his sonic screwdriver and a supermarket trolley full of crisps, the Doctor sets out to find the truth. The answer is scary - the Krillitanes are back on Earth, and everyone is at risk! Last time they took over a school. This time they have hijacked the internet. Whatever they are up to, it''s big and it''s nasty. Only the Doctor can stop them - if he isn''t already too late... A short, sharp shot of adventure, featuring the Doctor as played by David Tennant in the hit Doctor Who series from BBC Television.

A hilarious new series for younger readers, following the misadventures of an ordinary boy at an extraordinary school for young spies...

The Novrosk Peninsula: the Soviet naval base has been abandoned, the nuclear submarines are rusting and rotting. Cold, isolated, forgotten. Until the Russian Special Forces arrive and discover that the Doctor and his companions are here too. But there is something else in Novrosk. Something that predates even the stone circle on the cliff top. Something that is at last waking, hunting, killing. Can the Doctor and his friends stay alive long enough to learn the truth? With time running out, they must discover who is really responsible for the Deviant Strain... Featuring the Ninth Doctor as played by Christopher Eccleston, together with Rose and Captain Jack as played by Billie Piper and John Barrowman in the hit Doctor Who series from BBC Television.

A hilarious new series for younger readers, following the misadventures of an ordinary boy at an extraordinary school for young spies...

The action-packed companion to Sure Fire from New York Times bestselling author Jack Higgins! Twins Rich and Jade Chance are on vacation with their father, master spy John Chance?or so they think. The British government actually sent their father to keep tabs on a Swiss banker who is trying to escape from the Tiger, a ruthless criminal. But the banker is captured and taken to a remote Scottish castle?along with Rich! Now it?s up to Jade and her father to rescue them. Will they be able to stop the Tiger before Rich?s time runs out?

The Planet of Oblivion is where the Darksmiths met their clients. A once pleasant planet with lush jungles, it has now been reduced to a charred and scorched mess. A few surviving inhabitants desperately try to bring the planet back to life, with the help of the Dravidians. But are these technically accomplished insects helping for their own gain? Will the Doctor get closer to the identity of the Darksmiths'' mysterious clients? This amazing ten-book series follow the Doctor on his exciting journey to discover the origins of the so-called Eternity Crystal and the powerful artisans who have created it - the Darksmiths Continue the amazing Darksmith adventure with the Doctor online at www.thedarksmithlegacy.com

For twins Rich and Jade, their lives have just been turned upside down. When their mother is tragically killed in a car crash, their long-lost father, John Chance, appears to collect them at the funeral. He’s a bachelor who lives on his own, and it’s clear that Rich and Jade aren’t welcome. But when Chance suddenly disappears, Rich and Jade uncover the truth: He’s a spy. And now, whoever kidnapped their father is after them, too. Sure Fire is a gripping adventure from the master of the modern thriller.

Three teens and a curator of unclassified artifacts at the British Museum match wits with a madman determined to use unorthodox methods to reanimate the dead, both humans and dinosaurs.

With exclusive photographs, concept drawings, diagrams and FX models, this lavishly-illustrated book brings together some of the scariest monsters from Doctor Who.

The Cybermen terrorise time and space - but luckily the new Doctor and Rose are back to stop them. This illustrated guide documents the return of these metal menaces, as well as the Sycorax and other foes. It also features baddies such as the Celestial Toymaker, Sutekh and the Robots of Death.

The Invisible Detective''s young protgs are on their most dangerous case yet. A mad scientist is creating an army of mutant soldiers. Worse, their adult friend Charlie is mixed up with the soldiers. Can the gang stop the soldiers and save Charlie before it''s too late?

London, today: Arthur Drake at last has some time to think about the Invisible Detective and a past life that seems somehow linked to his own. That is, until he meets the ghosts of sailors shipwrecked over a century ago... London, 1937: The Invisible Detective can solve any mystery, great or small -- but no one''s ever seen his face. Truth is, the detective is the creation of four extraordinary kids who combat crime in his name... A pocket watch that seems to rewind time itself lead the gang to investigate a strange clock shop. But what is wrong with the shop''s customers? And how are events linked to a shipwreck in Cornwall? Only the Invisible Detective can find out... www.invisible-detective.com

Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.

"The late nineteenth century -- the age of reason, of enlightenment, of industrialization. Britain is the workshop of the world, the center of the Empire. Progress has left Middletown behind. The tin mine is worked out, jobs are scarce, and a crack has opened across the moors that the locals believe reaches into the depths of Hell itself. But things are changing: Lord Urton is preparing to reopen the mine; the society for Physical Research is interested in the fissure; Roger Nepath and his sister are exhibiting their collection of mystic Eastern artifacts. People are dying. Then a stranger arrives, walking out of the wilderness: A man with no name, no history ..."--Amazon.com.

The Doctor and Peri materialize on island named Dorsill, which has recently been purchased by a DNA scientist named Sheldon. At first the villagers are unconcerned by a few local deaths. Little do they realize that they are now part of Sheldon''s closed experiment.

In Britain, panic has set in as the government realises the full implications of Year 2000. In the race against time, one company seems to promise all the technological answers... but what exactly are the methods and motives behind the operation?

The Novrosk Peninsula: the Soviet naval base has been abandoned, the nuclear submarines are rusting and rotting. Cold, isolated, forgotten. Until the Russian Special Forces arrive and discover that the Doctor and his companions are here too. But there is something else in Novrosk. Something that predates even the stone circle on the cliff top.

"Landing in present-day England, all appears serene as the Doctor and Sam emerge from the TARDIS into the idyllic grounds of the Silver family''s ancestral home. Only when they enter the house do they suspect that things are not what they see. How far-reaching is the strange power of a secret society almost 700 years old, and how is it linked to the mysterious Station Nine? And what is the significance of a series of paintings that drove a man to suicide? From thirteenth-century England to the former Soviet Union, from the United States to the cold wastes of space, the various strands of a complex plan come together and threaten to engulf the world in a nightmare of nuclear destruction."--Page 4 of cover

Landing on a barren asteroid, the Doctor and his friends discover the final pages of a drama that has torn apart an empire are being played out. Who is the man in the mask, and how are his chess games affecting life and death in his prison? What is the secret of the knights in armor that line the bleak walls of the settlement. And what is the nature of the alien ship approaching -- and what will it want when it arrives? Soon the TARDIS crew find themselves under siege with a deadly robotic race and human traitors to defeat -- and the future of an entire stellar empire hangs in the balance: if the Doctor cannot triumph it will become a force not for good, but for evil.