Lee Binding’s amazing new Doctor Who novel art

By John Freeman on June 29, 2025 • ( 0 )

Here’s the full cover art and final covers by Lee Binding for the three new Doctor Who novels: “Fear Death By Water”, “Spectral Scream”, available now in hardcover; and “The Moon Cruise”, out in November, the Doctor and Belinda tangling with dangerous robots…

Lee Binding, whose impressive portfolio extends well beyond the Doctor Who work for which he is best known, is a graphic designer and digital painter whose career began at Visual Imagination, once the publisher of Starburst and TV Zone. His credits include work on properties that include Doctor Who, Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, and more for clients including the BBC, Sky, Random House, SFX Magazine and Big Finish Productions.

In “Fear Death By Water” by Emily Cook, out now (AmazonUK Affiliate Link): Northumberland, 1838. The TARDIS crash lands on board a sinking steamship. Stranded, the Doctor and the few survivors fight for their lives – while the local lighthouse keeper’s daughter, Grace Darling, risks her life to row to their rescue.

Lauded a heroine, Grace struggles to cope with her new-found fame. But the Doctor senses something else is troubling Grace. She’s been tormented by the terrifying vision she saw out at sea in the storm. There’s a monster in her mind, wrecking ships and stealing the souls of the drowned.

And it’s real.

In “Spectral Scream” by Hannah Ferguson, out now (AmazonUK Affiliate Link): When a psychic shriek for help nearly overwhelms the TARDIS, the Doctor and Belinda track the source to a distant planet. There they find a sentient, telepathic bioship named Adama and ragged colonists descended from the original crew. Adama is dying, and their spectral screams are growing strong enough to kill anyone in the vicinity.

When Adama crashed 100 years ago, it was with a great treasure on board, stolen from the ruthless Gangnax Imperium – technology that could either unite worlds or destroy them. If they are to save the bioship, the Doctor and Belinda must survive suspicious colonists, greedy bounty hunters and military forces determined to reclaim what’s theirs – before Adama’s final death throes destroy them all

In “The Moon Cruise” by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson, due for release on 13th November 2025 (AmazonUK Affiliate Link): Step right up for the most sensational cruise in the galaxy!

The TARDIS lands on board a luxury space liner owned by the interstellar shipping magnate, Marilyn Moon. The Moon Cruise offers its wealthy passengers up-close views of astounding cosmic wonders and the Doctor and Belinda are soon high rolling it on the top deck.

But there is a sinister side to life on board. What is the secret of the smiling, blonde-haired mannequins? What happens to the cruise ship workers when they go off shift? The Doctor soon learns that not all prisons come with bars on the windows, while Belinda faces one of the greatest cruelties in the universe – a zero-pay contract in retail and hospitality that can never be broken…

• Lee Binding is online at leebinding.myportfolio.com/projects | Linktree

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.