Peter Darvill-Evans

Peter Darvill-Evans is a British writer and editor. During the 1980s he authored several Fighting Fantasy Game Books, and in 1989 became the Fiction Editor at Virgin Publishing, initially overseeing the recently-purchased Target Books imprint. Target's main output was novelisations of the popular science-fiction television series Doctor Who, and when Darvill-Evans arrived he immediately realised that there were very few Doctor Who stories left to novelise. This problem was exacerbated by the cancellation of the television series at the end of 1989, and Darvill-Evans persuaded the BBC to licence the company to produce full-length, original novels carrying on the story of the series from the point where the television programme had left off.

He was responsible for setting up and initially editing the hugely-successful line of novels, which were known as the New Adventures, writing one himself, Deceit. Other output from the Virgin fiction department during his time there included another series of Doctor Who novels (the Missing Adventures, featuring previous Doctors and companions); a series of novels following the character of Bernice Summerfield; the Virgin Worlds imprint of new mainstream science-fiction and fantasy novels; and various erotic fiction series.

Virgin closed its fiction department in 1999, with Darvill-Evans departing the company. He has since written several Doctor Who novels for BBC Books, amongst various other editing and writing work.