Doctor Who - Audio Details

The Pinehill Crest Hotel in Kent is host to three very different events: a cross-stitch convention, an experiment in time travel and... the summoning of the Scourge.

The Doctor, Bernice and Ace find themselves dealing with a dead body that has come back to life, a mystical symbol that possesses its host, and a threat from another universe that is ready for every trick the Doctor's got up his sleeve.

This time, has the Doctor gone too far?

My favourite era of Doctor Who is the run of Virgin Publishing's New Adventures novels edited by Rebecca Levene.  I'm very nostalgic about the feeling of shared adventure that Rebecca and publisher Perter Darvill-Evens created for the authors working under them.

During that era, Sylvester McCoy's Doctor was tested to breaking point, Ace grew up, changed, and finally settled down, and Bernice Summerfield arrived to comment wryly on the action.  I've thought of Lisa as the perfect Bernice since I first heard her starring as my favourite archaeologist in Big Finish's other range of audios, and to write for Sylvester and Sophie is a dream come true.

I never thought I'd get to write another New Adventure, but it seems that even in one's thirties, one sometimes does get the chance to go home again.

Paul Cornell, July 2000