Camille Coduri reads this brand new novelisation of the Tenth Doctor’s first adventure. Earth is under attack by power-hungry aliens. This is no time for the Doctor to be out of action. 

When a British space probe is intercepted by a sinister alien vessel on the eve of Christmas, it marks the beginning of an audacious invasion of the Earth by the Sycorax - horrifying marauders from beyond the stars. Within hours, a third of humanity stands on the brink of death with not a single shot fired. 

Our planet needs a champion - but the Doctor is not fit for service. He’s just regenerated, delirious in a new body and a dressing gown. Forced into his battered shoes is his friend, Rose Tyler, a girl from a London council estate. Will she save the world from this nightmare before Christmas - or see it destroyed?

℗ BBC Worldwide 2018

© BBC Worldwide 2018

Novelisation copyright © Jenny T. Colgan 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: The Christmas Invasion first published by BBC Books in 2018.