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I love the various Unbound stories (except Exile and He Jests at Scars but they at least have hot takes to build a story from), but I've held off on getting the new First Doctor Unbound stories so far because I don't really understand what the gimmick is. Those of you who've listened to them, how are these different from any of the other Big Finish David Bradley audios? The only thing I can see in the promotional material is a claim of difference in tone, but that doesn't really see very apparent when you read the blurbs or listen to the trailers.

Do these feel like Unbound stories at all? And what is the difference in continuity that means they can't just be set in the main universe? Also, are they any good and worth picking up?

I read plenty of Target books as a child in the 2000s and I'm quite keen to give them another go. I've only read Moffat's Day of the Doctor novelisation as an adult (which I loved but is obviously an outlier), so I'm wondering which people would recommend as being either particularly good or adding a lot to the story seen on TV. I've heard that the McCoy era novels, The Witchfinders and the novelisations based on Douglas Adams' work are all good and expand on the originals, but what else is worth a look? Once someone mentioned certain of the Hartnells benefit from novelisation, but which? Any recommendations welcome.