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The Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures were a series of novels that featured Bernice Summerfield and her "supporting cast". They were published by Virgin Books following the loss of the license that allowed them to publish an original series of novels, the New Adventures series, which could legally use characters and concepts derived from Doctor Who. Though most featured Bernice herself, two, Deadfall and Dead Romance, centred on other characters.

The series began in in May 1997 and ended in October 1999. Big Finish Productions would later obtain the license to these characters for their own line of audios, novels and short fiction featuring Benny and her supporting cast.

The book series initially used the same cover designs as that for the later Doctor Who NA books, except with a newly commissioned New Adventures logo. A new cover design was introduced with Another Girl, Another Planet, which removed the NA identifier from the front cover and introduced a new title-lettering style.

During the publication of the New Adventures range, Decalog 5: Wonders which was fifth and final instalment in the Virgin Decalogs short story anthology series, which initially began as a compilation of Doctor Who-related stories. Since Virgin Books no longer had the rights to publish original Doctor Who fiction, nine of its ten stories were entirely original science fiction, with no connection to the Doctor Who universe.

However, it was important to the history of DWU fiction for the one story that did have some relevance to Doctor Who. The Judgement of Solomon by Lawrence Miles, which was the first short story to feature Bernice Summerfield. So it is possible that this story is a part of the New Adventures range.

Title Author Featuring Published
Oh No It Isn't!Paul Cornell Wolsey May 1997
Dragons' WrathJustin Richards Irving Braxiatel June 1997
Beyond the SunMatthew Jones Jason Kane, Emile Mars-Smith July 1997
Ship of FoolsDave Stone none August 1997
DownLawrence Miles !X September 1997
DeadfallGary Russell Chris Cwej October 1997
Ghost DevicesSimon Bucher-Jones God, Clarence November 1997
Mean StreetsTerrance Dicks Chris Cwej December 1997
TempestChristopher Bulis none January 1998
Walking to BabylonKate Orman none February 1998
OblivionDave Stone Jason Kane, Chris Cwej, Roz Forrester March 1998
The Medusa EffectJustin Richards Irving Braxiatel April 1998
Dry PilgrimagePaul Leonard & Nick Walters none May 1998
The Sword of ForeverJim Mortimore none June 1998
Another Girl, Another PlanetMartin Day & Len Beech none August 1998
Beige Planet MarsLance Parkin & Mark Clapham none October 1998
Where Angels FearRebecca Levene & Simon Winstone Irving Braxiatel December 1998
The Mary-Sue ExtrusionDave Stone Jason Kane February 1999
Dead RomanceLawrence Miles Christine Summerfield (introduction), Chris Cwej April 1999
Tears of the OracleJustin Richards Jason Kane, Irving Braxiatel June 1999
Return to the Fractured PlanetDave Stone Irving Braxiatel August 1999
The Joy DeviceJustin Richards none October 1999
Twilight of the GodsMark Clapham &
Jon de Burgh Miller
Jason Kane, Chris Cwej,
Clarence, Irving Braxiatel
December 1999

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