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Andrew Lane


Books

Crusoe (Adaptive Books)

  • Dawn of Spies (2016)
  • Day of Ice (2017)

Lost Worlds (Macmillan Children’s Books)

  • Lost Worlds (2013)
  • Shadow Creatures (2014)

Young Sherlock Holmes (Macmillan Children’s Books)

  • Death Cloud (2010)
  • Red Leech (2010)
  • Black Ice (2011)
  • Fire Storm (2011)
  • Snake Bite (2012)
  • Knife Edge (2013)
  • Stone Cold (2014)
  • Night Break (2015)

Doctor Who New Adventures (Virgin Books)

  • Lucifer Rising (1993) (with Jim Mortimore)
  • All-Consuming Fire (1994)
  • Original Sin (1995)

Doctor Who Missing Adventures (Virgin Books)

  • The Empire of Glass (1995)

Doctor Who – Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books)

  • The Banquo Legacy (2000) (with Justin Richards)

Torchwood (BBC Books)

  • Slow Decay (2007)

Other Television-Related Novels and Novelisations

  • Bugs : A Sporting Chance (Virgin Books, 1996)
  • Randall and Hopkirk: Ghost in the Machine (Boxtree Books, 2000)

Film- and Television-Related Non-Fiction

  • The Babylon File (Virgin Books, 1997)
  • The Bond Files (Virgin Books, 1998) (with Paul Simpson)
  • The Babylon File: Volume 2 (Virgin Books, 1999)
  • Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) – The Files (Boxtree Books, 2001)
  • The World of Austin Powers (Boxtree Books, 2002)
  • Creating Creature Comforts (Boxtree Books, 2003)
  • The World of Wallace and Gromit (Boxtree Books, 2004)
  • The World of The Magic Roundabout (Boxtree Books, 2005) (with Paul Simpson)
  • The Art of Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Titan Books, 2005) (with Paul Simpson)

Short Stories

  • ‘Living in the Past’ (in Doctor Who Magazine, Issue 162, July 1990)
  • ‘Crawling From the Wreckage’ (in The Ultimate Witch, Dell 1993)
  • ‘The More Things Change’ (in Doctor Who Yearbook, 1994)
  • ‘Lovers, and Other Strangers’ (in Interzone, issue 87, September 1994)
  • ‘Fallen Angel’ (in Decalog, Virgin 1994)
  • ‘It’s Only a Game’ (in Doctor Who Yearbook, 1995)
  • ‘Faceless in Ghazar’ (in Blake’s Seven Poster Magazine, Issue 2, Jan 1995)
  • ‘The Old, Old Story’ (in The Ultimate Dragon, 1995)
  • ‘Saving Face’ (in Full Spectrum 5, 1995)
  • ‘Where the Heart Is’ (in Decalog 2, 1995)
  • ‘Four Angry Mutants’ (with Rebecca Levene) (in The Ultimate X-Men, 1996)
  • ‘Dependence Day’ (with Justin Richards) (in Decalog 4, 1997)
  • ‘No Experience Necessary’ (in Odyssey issue 2, 1997)
  • ‘As Near to Flame as Lust to Smoke’ (in Shakespearean Detectives, 1998)
  • ‘The Gaze of the Falcon’ (in The Mammoth Book of Royal Whodunnits, 1998)
  • ‘Blood on the Tracks’ (in Bernice Summerfield – Missing Adventures, 2007)
  • ‘Only Connect’ (in Short Trips: Transmissions, 2008)
  • ‘The Beauty of Our Weapons’ (in Torchwood Yearbook, 2008)
  • ‘Who by Fire?’ (in Torchwood Magazine, Issue 14, 2009)
  • ‘Closing Time’ (in Torchwood Magazine, Issues 16 & 17, 2009)
  • ‘The Audience of the Dead’ (in The Strand Magazine, Issue 34, June–Sept 2011)
  • ‘Bedlam’ (a Young Sherlock Holmes short story published exclusively for the Kindle ebook reader, Dec 2011)
  • ‘The Preservation of Death’ (in The Strand Magazine, Issue unknown, 2013)
  • ‘The Curious Case of the Compromised Card Files’ (in The Further Encounters of Sherlock Holmes, 2014)
  • ‘Blood Relations’ (in Sharkpunk, 2015)
  • ‘The Last Professor Moriarty Story’ (in The Mammoth Book of the Adventures of Moriarty, 2015)
  • ‘A Small Band of Dedicated Men’ (in The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories, 2015)
  • ‘The Dark, Hidden Places’ (in Secret Invasions, 2015)
  • ‘The Disembodied Assassin’ (in The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories, 2015)
  • ‘Buyer’s Remorse’ (in Dead Letters, planned for Apr 2016)
  • ‘The Trick of the Disappearing Anarchist’ (in The MX Annual of New Sherlock Holmes Stories 2016)
  • ‘River of Time’ (in The Legends of River Song, ebook 2016, print version planned for June 2016)
  • ‘The Case of the Haphazard Marksman’ (in The Associates of Sherlock Holmes, planned for mid-2016)
  • ‘The “Iä!”s of March’ (in Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu, planned for mid-2016)

Television

Space Island One (Bard Productions)

  • ‘Awakenings’ (story) (1998)
  • ‘Mayfly’ (script) (1998)
  • ‘Money Makes the World Go Around’ (story) (1998)

Audio

Doctor Who (Big Finish Productions)

  • The Companion Chronicles: ‘Here There Be Monsters’ (June 2008)
  • The Companion Chronicles: ‘The Mahogany Murderers’ (June 2009)
  • A Thousand Tiny Wings (April 2010)
  • Paradise 5 (with P. J. Hammond) (April 2010)
  • Jago & Litefoot 1.4: ‘The Similarity Engine’ (June 2010)
  • Jago & Litefoot 2.4: ‘The Ruthven Inheritance’ (January 2011)
  • Jago & Litefoot 3.4: ‘Chronoclasm’ (June 2011)
  • Jago & Litefoot 8.2: ‘The Backwards Men’ (October 2014)
  • The Havoc of Empires (Aug 2015)
  • Doctor Who: All-Consuming Fire (December 2015 – an adaptation of the novel)
  • Doctor Who: Original Sin (planned for Dec 2016 – an adaptation of the novel)

Blake’s Seven (Big Finish Productions)

  • Corners of the Mind (May 2015)

Journalism

Andrew Lane has written articles, reviews and interviews for various magazines, including: DreamWatch, Radio Times, SFX, Starburst, Star Trek Magazine, Star Wars Magazine, Star Wars Fact Files and TV Guide (United States).


Contact Andrew Lane

ajlane @ ntlworld.com
slowdecay.co.uk
+44(0)7931 340008


Nigel Foster

Books

  • Bluff Your Way in Journalism (Bluffers Guides, 1992)
  • The Making of a Royal Marines Commando (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1993)
  • Bluff Your Way in Advertising (Bluffers Guides, 1996)
  • Rock on Wood: The Origin of a Rock and Roll Face – Ronnie Wood (Boxtree, 1999) (with Terry Rawlings)