'The Shadows of Avalon' by Paul Cornell

The Brigadier's wife is dead. A terrible accident. Grieving, he searches for death, and finds his way to Avalon, the other-dimensional kingdom of the Catuvelauni.

The Doctor is also in Avalon, marooned. He's lost his companions, his TARDIS... and his hope for the future.

Now it seems they'll have to make a new life for themselves with the Celts who live in the Dreamlands. Perhaps even help in the Celts' negotiations with the Unseelie, the sinister original inhabitants of Avalon, who live far to the North.

But then a gateway opens between Earth and Avalon. The British Army arrives in force. And the Brigadier negotiates a treaty that will lead to war in the Land of Dreams.

With fearsome dragons duelling jet fighters, vicious Gallifreyan agents causing havoc, and Compassion fighting against her ultimate fate, can the Doctor save the world, his best friend, and himself?


Publication Date:
February 2000

Notes:
*Featuring the Eighth Doctor, Fitz, Compassion, the Brigadier and the Third Romana

*The fifth and final part of the 'Who is Compassion?' storyarc (Spoilers: she transforms into a Type 102 TARDIS!)

*A BBC Books 'Eighth Doctor Adventures' novel