Andrew Cartmel Books in Order

A deep dive into Doctor Who’s Cybermen, covering their evolution, designs, and the ideas that make them frightening. Part reference guide and part behind-the-scenes history, it digs into stories, concepts, and what it took to bring Cybermen to life.

The Doctor and Ace land in a quiet English town in the 1960s and find the locals trapped in a nightmare that feels like a film coming to life. To stop the deaths, they have to uncover what is feeding on fear.

The Seventh Doctor and Ace are drawn into a violent, near-future world of mercenaries, biotech, and corporate war. It is one of Cartmel's darker Doctor Who novels, mixing action with a bleak look at how war becomes business.

The Doctor and his companions are drawn into a conflict where a corporation’s plans and a psychic child’s nightmares start to merge. As war becomes a business, the Doctor has to stop a scheme that could poison an entire planet.

Psychiatrist Juliette Race grows close to Christopher Matthews, a patient who insists he has strange powers. As rational explanations start to crack, the story turns into a dark supernatural thriller about belief, obsession, and control.

A teleport accident strands Nyssa at a snowbound Swiss school in 1963, where a supposed poltergeist is only the surface of the problem. When the Doctor arrives, the mystery opens into rogue psychic powers and something far worse.

The Second Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe stumble into a tale that begins around the opium trade and leads to an eerie English house full of séances, curses, and murder. Cartmel leans into ghost-story atmosphere without losing the sci-fi engine underneath.

Los Alamos, 1944. The Seventh Doctor and Ace arrive at the Manhattan Project to stop history being sabotaged at one of the most dangerous moments of the war. Spies, aliens, and atomic fear all converge as the countdown to the first test begins.

Johnny Alpha and Middenface McNulty join a manhunt for the killer of a wealthy client's family, only to discover they have been lured into a deadly trap. It is a hard-driving Strontium Dog story with betrayal, mutant camaraderie, and a nasty twist.

Andrew Cartmel looks back on his years guiding Doctor Who in the late 1980s, from scripts and story meetings to battles over tone and direction. It is part memoir, part behind-the-scenes account of a difficult but inventive stretch in the show's history.

Judge Dredd faces one of Mega-City One's stranger cases in a novel that mixes future-law violence with black comedy and social satire. In Dredd's world, the joke is never far from the brutality.

A lively, insider history of Doctor Who that mixes production stories, cultural context, and Cartmel's own perspective on the series. It is less a dry reference guide than a brisk walk through the show's changing ideas, moods, and eras.

This linked Torchwood novel follows the fallout from an earlier case as scattered encounters begin to connect in unsettling ways. Memory, hidden stories, and the cost of living near the Rift all start to close in on Cardiff.

Rupert Hood looks like an ordinary estate agent, but he doubles as a spy, and this mission throws him into a slick, satirical game of international intrigue. Cartmel has fun with Bond-style excess without letting the danger feel fake.

A friendly, curiosity-driven tour of the science that inspires Doctor Who, from time travel puzzles to alien worlds. It breaks big ideas down into approachable explanations, with plenty of fun thought experiments along the way.

A mysterious client hires a record-obsessed sleuth to find a priceless lost jazz recording. What looks like a dream job becomes a dangerous chase through the strange, funny, and occasionally murderous world of rare vinyl.

A mint copy of the last Valerian album sends the Vinyl Detective after the truth about the band's singer and her missing child. The trail winds through sixties rock mythology, grave robbing, and dangers that keep getting more personal.

This audio set reunites the Seventh Doctor with Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester for four original stories. It captures the mood of the New Adventures era, bigger ideas, moral arguments, and a TARDIS team that never quite gets an easy trip.

The first part of *Operation Volcano* drops the Doctor and Ace into a mystery involving alien danger in Earth orbit and trouble in the Australian interior. Cartmel and Ben Aaronovitch give the comic the same sly, high-stakes energy as the Seventh Doctor's TV era.

The plot widens as Counter-Measures are drawn in and the alien threat becomes harder to read. The Doctor keeps playing several games at once, while Ace is left to deal with the immediate danger on the ground.

The final part of *Operation Volcano* brings the orbiting threat, the Australian landing, and the Doctor's long game crashing together. It is a brisk Seventh Doctor finale with big sci-fi stakes and plenty of scheming.

When one of the Detective's cats turns up a rare wartime recording, he and Nevada are drawn into swing music, buried secrets, and a case stretching back to World War Two. The deeper they dig, the clearer it becomes that old treason can still kill.

Two minor river goddesses, Chelsea and Olympia, get involved in growing magical marijuana. When a drug lord tries to take over their operation, Peter has to intervene.

A flashback story revealing Thomas Nightingale’s past. In 1957, a younger Nightingale hunts a serial killer in London who is using the occult to prey on women.

Tinkler hires the Vinyl Detective and Nevada to find the recalled final album by seventies band Black Dog. The trail leads to a notorious island stunt, obsessive fans, and old embers that still hide a motive for murder.

Peter Grant goes undercover in the world of illegal street racing. He discovers that the races are crossing over into Fairyland, with magical creatures betting on the outcome.

A rare punk pressing brings the Vinyl Detective into the orbit of Helene Hilditch, a guitarist with a very long list of enemies. As attempts on her life grow bolder, the case becomes less about records and more about beating a killer to the next strike.

Miriam Stephanopoulos takes the lead as a Swedish werewolf arrives in London. Peter Grant must help contain the lycanthrope before it causes havoc in the city.

The Vinyl Detective, Nevada, Tinkler and Agatha head to Sweden to track down a banned debut album by demonic metal legends Storm Dream Troopers. Their record hunt slides into Nordic noir when the band returns and bodies start piling up.

Olympia and Chelsea accidentally release a 19th-century illustrator trapped in a tree. He brings dark versions of fairy tales to life, forcing the sisters to clean up the mess without Peter’s help.

Cordelia, a dealer in vintage paperbacks, steals a set of impossibly rare crime novels and immediately crosses one of London's most dangerous gangsters. What begins as a book hunt turns into a scramble for survival, money, and a little dignity.

When rare books are stolen from a West London yoga ashram, Cordelia is hired to recover them by the very people who once threw her out. The case quickly turns into a murder hunt, and she may be next.

The Vinyl Detective is hired to find vanished techno legend Lambert Ramkin, also known as Imperium Dart. What starts as a missing-person case in the world of electronic music becomes stranger, funnier, and far more dangerous than it first appears.

The Doctor reunites with Donna Noble when a small alien refugee lands in London and brings a much bigger problem with it. With danger closing in, Donna’s family is pulled into a mystery that tests what the Doctor can safely remember.

Cordelia is hired to track down the last, rarest Commando novel for retired rocker Erik Make Loud. But the missing paperback points toward a real wartime mission, and someone in the present is willing to kill to keep that buried.

The Vinyl Detective is hired to find a pristine copy of a lost giallo soundtrack and clear a dead composer's name. The search sends him back to a 1969 murder, Swinging London secrets, and a killer who wants the past left alone.