If you're one of the many languishing in limbo waiting for Series 3 of Sherlock then Andrew Lane's fourth Young Sherlock Holmes novel, Fire Storm, may help make that wait a little less interminable.

Shada is unique among Doctor Who stories in existing in its own time-space bubble.

As Sherlock became more ambitious and complex in its second series, so David Arnold and Michael Price's score rose to the challenge of matching the drama of the Great Detective.

For the Doctor Who fan, no events were more saddening last year than the twin losses of Nicholas Courtney and Elisabeth Sladen - the latter’s passing made all the more incomprehensible by those eternally youthful looks.

There was much joy when it was announced that Tom Baker would return to the role of the Fourth Doctor in new audio dramas.

Sherlock could strangle a tune out of the violin, but what would the updated detective make of composers David Arnold and Michael Price's soundtrack to his adventures?

Let's not waste Time: the soundtrack to Doctor Who's sixth series is, without a Vashta Nerada's shadow of a doubt, composer Murray Gold's finest work on the series to date.

More wittily ingenious than any mainstream TV tie-in book has a right to be, this is the Doctor Who annual we always wanted from our childhoods.

This lavish, revised edition of 2007’s Doctor Who Encyclopedia manages exhaustively to catalogue almost every onscreen detail of the revised series.

Blatantly targeting the Christmas book-buying market, The Silent Stars Go By is as traditional a slice of Who storytelling as you’d expect from the festive season.