This is not the book I intended to review. Over the Christmas holidays, I started reading The Knight, the Fool and the Dead by Steve Cole, the first book in the multi-platform, multi-Doctor Time Lord Victorious extravaganza, but the chill … Continue reading ‘Doctor Who – The Christmas Invasion’ by Jenny T. Colgan
The Triple Knife is one of two Doctor Who paperbacks released under the new brand. They’re not featuring the forthcoming new Doctor, of course – that would be giving too much away ahead of the new series – but they are both by prominent female writers in promotion of Doctor Who’s Year of the Woman. Written by Jenny T. Colgan, The Triple Knife is a collection of short stories either starring or told from the perspective of a significant female character from the recent years of Doctor Who. There are five stories of varying lengths in this collection: the story after which the book is named The Triple … Continue reading ‘The Triple Knife and Other Doctor Who Stories’ by Jenny T. Colgan
To tie in with its 2005 revival of Doctor Who, the BBC launched not one but two lines of spin-off novels to accompany the series. There was a standard range of workmanlike adventures by reliable but lesser-known authors and a ‘premium’ range of big impressive hardbacks by big impressive authors with names you might recognise from the best sellers list. It hasn’t always been a successful arrangement; Alistair Reynolds and Stephen Baxter turned in wonderful Doctor Who novels, whereas fantasy legend Michael Moorcock wrote a great Michael Moorcock novel that seemed to bear little relation to Doctor Who. Jenny T. Colgan wouldn’t have … Continue reading ‘In the Blood’ by Jenny T. Colgan
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