Four novels I read recently based in the Doctor Who universe but not all of them feature The Doctor
The Face of the Enemy By David A. McIntee (featuring The Brigadier & The Master)
Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
The Forgotten Son by Andy Frankham-Allen (featuring Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart)
Rating: ❤️❤️❤❤❤
The Day She Saved The Doctor (short stories) by Jenny Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Dorothy Koomson & Susan Calman (featuring Rose, Sarah-Jane, Clara and Bill)
Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤
The Legends of River Song (anthology) by Jenny T. Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams & Andy Lane (featuring River Song & The Doctor)
"Dally didn't die a hero. He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday. Just like Tim Shepard and Curly Shepard and the Brumly boys and the other guys we knew would die someday. But Johnny was right. He died gallant."
– The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton
Quote 103 :
"She didn’t like to check on people’s futures, because once she knew where and when that gravestone was, it made it real. You couldn’t live, knowing all that. And so every one of the billion people she’d ever met slept in the back of her mind, and when, every now and then, one woke up in her imagination, she was able to think of them as she’d last seen them – happy, hopefully, and with their life ahead of them."
– Doctor Who: The Wonderful Doctor of Oz, Jacqueline Rayner
saw the new wicked trailer and i hate ar*ana gr*nde and the blandness of it all + haven’t thought about wicked the musical since i saw it live at age thirteen, but i just got blasted with thoschei rays of a magnitude of 10 on the richter scale. childhood friends polar opposites with an inextricable bond studying at some morally questionable Magical Academy one of them is perpetually misunderstood and goes crazyinsane because evil is what is Expected of them. and emerald city in the new movie looks like the gallifrey citadel. do you get me
then i remembered there’s literally a canon doctor who novel (that i’ll get around to reading someday) in which thirteen somehow finds herself stranded in the land of oz and missy is quite literally the wicked witch of the west. and they actually interact. complete with toxic yuri subtext and everything. so i guess i’m not the only one !!
Just an audio clip/appreciation post for the wonderful book (AKA canon fanfiction) known as ‘The Stone Rose’ by Jacqueline Rayner. This is near the end of the story, where the Doctor has Rose cross into his timeline to assist his past self [who’s desperately searching for her after he learns she’s been turned to stone].
The audiobook is narrated by David Tennant, because of course it is:
Rose had just settled down and adjusted the metal box thing over her mouth, when the door to the shrine opened. She peered through Fortuna’s legs and saw that, yes, it was the Doctor. He saw the statue. She shrank back as he hurried forward. . . and then he realised that it wasn’t her.
Rose was taken aback. She hadn’t known - how could she know? - what her disappearance had done to him. This Doctor had a look of such despair in his eyes that her heart almost stopped in pity. She wanted more than anything else in the world to jump up, go to him, tell him that everything was going to be all right.
But, what with possibly ripping time and space apart, that was probably a bad idea.
‘Rose is prettier than you,’ the Doctor suddenly said.
When young Mel’s business partner, Sabalom Glitz embarks on yet another “get rich quick” scheme, it marks the start of an epic, death-defyin
Coming soon - a Doctor Who murder mystery with Bonnie Langford
When young Mel’s business partner, Sabalom Glitz embarks on yet another “get rich quick” scheme, it marks the start of an epic, death-defyin
BBC Books to publish Doctor Who murder mystery with national treasure Bonnie Langford
A band of killers. Survivors with a secret. A death-defying murder mystery in space.
Pre-order DOCTOR WHO: DEATH IN THE STARS ahead of its release on hardback and audiobook on 22nd August 2024 here.
When young Mel’s business partner, Sabalom Glitz embarks on yet another “get rich quick” scheme, it marks the start of an epic, death-defying murder-mystery in space.
After barely escaping the snares of a murderous galactic cult, Mel searches for fellow survivors in a nearby spaceship graveyard – while Glitz looks to fill his pockets. But the discovery of a spaceship with its crew in suspended animation and incredible secrets on board leaves the duo stranded with no way off.
Mel revives the crew – and then the murders start. Murders that cannot possibly have been committed by any of the crewmembers. In fact, there are only two realistic suspects – Glitz and Mel themselves…
Bonnie Langford is a beloved British actor, and well-known for her role playing Melanie Bush in Doctor Who, companion to the Sixth and Seventh Doctors. Bonnie returned to Doctor Who as Melanie during 2023’s 60th anniversary specials and will return for Season 1 which hits screens in 2024. She also starred in numerous West End productions, and played Carmel Kazemi in EASTENDERS. This is her first novel.
DOCTOR WHO: DEATH IN THE STARS is written by Bonnie Langford with Jacqueline Rayner, and will be release on hardback and audiobook on 22nd August 2024.
