Molten Heart.

Hubble, bubble, lava trouble. Una McCormack takes the latest Tardis team, or is it Team Tardis?, to a perilous planet, which is more inside than outside, if you follow me. Its a hollow world whos residents are so insular they do not even believe in a surface world.I really enjoyed the high adventure of this novel. A Time Lords Own tale that once more demonstrates the phenomenal elasticity of the Doctor Who universe. Also despite these books being written some months before transmission of the new series, which was wrapped in a veil of secrecy little equalled in the history of the revival, the author really nails the characters. From Grahams homely steadfastness to Ryan's worldly prism of pop cultural references( there are quite a few Middle earth and even Star Wars references.) Jaz and in particular The Doctor are as we find them living and breathing through our telly screens.
              Reading this book I felt a nostalgic tug for a doctor Who novel I read as a boy. The Web Planet novelization by bill Strutton. It would be many years until I would see the actual story on video tape and then dvd so this book acted as my guide to that distant alien world Vortis where the only recognisably human figures were The Doctor and his companions. Molten Heart shares this delightful conceitI do hope some where there is a young reader picking up Molten Heart and going on a similar reading experience (Who knows perhaps one day this story will be re-enacted as a Big Finish audio adaption when the original cast of Jodie and chums are reunited, all old and grey but full of the joy of remembering these exciting times we share with them Now.)
              Season Eleven may well be slightly shorter in number of episodes but these three BBC novels could well fill that shortfall. Did I say shortfall?
              Its an embarrassment of riches...