List of Torchwood novels and audio books

The "Torchwood" novels are a series of spin-off novels based on the BBC science fiction television series "Torchwood" and published under the BBC Books imprint. All releases to date in the Torchwood novels line have been published in hardcover. The same hardcover format and three-at-a-time publishing schedule is being used for the New Series Adventures range for "Doctor Who".

Torchwood novels

The first three novels in the series were commissioned in May 2006 [cite web
url=http://home2.btconnect.com/anghelides/anothersite/d_another.htm
title=Another Life
publisher=Peter Anghelides
date=
accessdate=2008-02-13 ] and were published on 4 January 2007. They sold well in the United Kingdom and went to the top of the Children's Book charts. The books themselves can be read in any order and share no internal continuity. However they often reference and foreshadow events in the series. The groups of three novels, when put together, create a linking picture across the spines displaying the team. Peter Anghelides stated that the intended order of the first three novels is as follows, "Another Life", "Slow Decay" then "Border Princes" [cite web
url=http://www.gallifreyone.com/forum/showpost.php?p=3664506&postcount=61
title=Peter Anghelides on the Torchwood Novel Order
publisher=Outpost Gallifrey
date=2007-03-07
accessdate=2007-03-18 ] which betrays the spine order. However, series editor Steve Tribe has contradicted this, saying, "Actually, that's not quite right, Peter....The books were originally conceived as following the order Another Life - Slow Decay - Border Princes. But while we were working on them just ahead of printing and publication, that order was changed, for a couple of very important reasons that I won't go into here. So Lee [Binding, who designed the cover art] was told the correct order and indeed used the correct order, which is Another Life - Border Princes - Slow Decay. Of course, I say 'correct order', but it doesn't in all honesty matter which sequence they're read in. There's one very small piece of continuity that runs through them, picked up from Another Life, but no more than that." [cite web
url=http://www.doctorwhoforum.com/showpost.php?p=5244017&postcount=19
title=Steve Tribe on the Torchwood Novel Order
publisher=Outpost Gallifrey
date=2008-01-09
accessdate=2008-09-21 ]

Audio books

The first three novels have been abridged and translated into "audiobooks". On 4 February 2008, two exclusive audiobooks were released; a third is due to be released in September 2008. This is consistent with BBC Audiobook's line of exclusive "Doctor Who"-related stories, encompassing the main series, "Torchwood" and "The Sarah Jane Adventures".

ee also

*List of Torchwood episodes
*List of Torchwood comics

References