BBC Audiobooks Press Release
Wednesday, 14 June 2006 - Reported by Shaun Lyon
BBC Audiobooks has issued a full press release for the three audio CD readings of the recent Doctor Who novels The Feast of the Drowned, The Resurrection Casket and The Stone Rose due on 3 July. Details are below. (Thanks to Lucy Groom/BBC Audiobooks)
Time Lord David Tennant brings these three new Doctor Who novels to life with his peerless narration, due to be published exclusively by BBC Audiobooks on 3rd July. Taken from the BBC Books of the same names, each individual release also includes an interview with the author, conducted by David Darlington of Doctor Who Magazine.
This is the first time David has appeared as the Doctor outside of the television series and brilliantly brings the novels to life, providing the voices of all the characters including the Doctor's companion Rose as well as his deadly enemies. Justin Richards, author of The Resurrection Casket said: "It's doubly rewarding as an author, not just to write for such an exciting and imaginative series as Doctor Who, but to hear your words read by none other than the Doctor himself. It's a privilege and a pleasure to hear David Tennant as the Doctor on audio, and of course he brings the same enthusiasm and style to the role as he does for the television series."
The Feast of the Drowned by Stephen Cole
When a naval cruiser sinks in mysterious circumstances in the North Sea, all aboard are lost. Rose is saddened to learn that the brother of her friend, Keisha, was among the dead. And yet he appears to them as a ghostly apparition, begging to be saved from the coming feast... the feast of the drowned. As the dead crew haunt loved ones all over London, the Doctor and Rose are drawn into a chilling mystery. What sank the ship, and why? When the cruiser's wreckage was towed up the Thames, what sinister force came with it?
The river's dark waters are hiding an even darker secret, as preparations for the feast near their conclusion…
The Resurrection Casket by Justin Richards
Starfall – a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work. And that includes the TARDIS. The pioneers who used to be drawn by the hope of making a fortune from the mines can find easier picking elsewhere. But they still come – for the romance of it, or old-fashioned organic mining. Or in the hope of finding the lost treasure of Hamlek Glint – scourge of the spaceways, privateer, adventurer, bandit… Will the TARDIS ever work again? Is Glint's lost treasure waiting to be found? And does the fabled Resurrection Casket – the key to eternal life – really exist? With the help of new friends, and to the horror of new enemies, The Doctor and Rose aim to find out…
The Stone Rose by Jacqueline Rayner
Mickey is startled to find a statue of Rose in a museum – a statue that is 2,000 years old. The Doctor realises that this means the TARDIS will shortly take them to Ancient Rome, but when it does, he and Rose soon have more on their minds than sculpture.
While the Doctor searches for a missing boy, Rose befriends a girl who claims to know the future – a girl whose predictions are surprisingly accurate. But then the Doctor stumbles on the hideous truth behind the statue of Rose – and Rose herself learns that you have to be very careful what you wish for…
This is the first time David has appeared as the Doctor outside of the television series and brilliantly brings the novels to life, providing the voices of all the characters including the Doctor's companion Rose as well as his deadly enemies. Justin Richards, author of The Resurrection Casket said: "It's doubly rewarding as an author, not just to write for such an exciting and imaginative series as Doctor Who, but to hear your words read by none other than the Doctor himself. It's a privilege and a pleasure to hear David Tennant as the Doctor on audio, and of course he brings the same enthusiasm and style to the role as he does for the television series."
The Feast of the Drowned by Stephen Cole
When a naval cruiser sinks in mysterious circumstances in the North Sea, all aboard are lost. Rose is saddened to learn that the brother of her friend, Keisha, was among the dead. And yet he appears to them as a ghostly apparition, begging to be saved from the coming feast... the feast of the drowned. As the dead crew haunt loved ones all over London, the Doctor and Rose are drawn into a chilling mystery. What sank the ship, and why? When the cruiser's wreckage was towed up the Thames, what sinister force came with it?
The river's dark waters are hiding an even darker secret, as preparations for the feast near their conclusion…
The Resurrection Casket by Justin Richards
Starfall – a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work. And that includes the TARDIS. The pioneers who used to be drawn by the hope of making a fortune from the mines can find easier picking elsewhere. But they still come – for the romance of it, or old-fashioned organic mining. Or in the hope of finding the lost treasure of Hamlek Glint – scourge of the spaceways, privateer, adventurer, bandit… Will the TARDIS ever work again? Is Glint's lost treasure waiting to be found? And does the fabled Resurrection Casket – the key to eternal life – really exist? With the help of new friends, and to the horror of new enemies, The Doctor and Rose aim to find out…
The Stone Rose by Jacqueline Rayner
Mickey is startled to find a statue of Rose in a museum – a statue that is 2,000 years old. The Doctor realises that this means the TARDIS will shortly take them to Ancient Rome, but when it does, he and Rose soon have more on their minds than sculpture.
While the Doctor searches for a missing boy, Rose befriends a girl who claims to know the future – a girl whose predictions are surprisingly accurate. But then the Doctor stumbles on the hideous truth behind the statue of Rose – and Rose herself learns that you have to be very careful what you wish for…
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