Doctor Who: Alex Kingston Reads Excerpt From Her River Song Novel
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Alex Kingston has written a novel featuring River Song, the character from
Doctor Who. The Ruby s Curse is now out in print, ebook and audiobook, and BBC Books has shared an excerpt along with a video of Kingston reading it.
Doctor Who is the gift that keeps on giving. The best characters attract fans with their intrigue, mystique, charisma, and endless potential for story. River Song, created by showrunner
Stephen Moffat, is one such character with a huge fan following.
Doctor Who: The Ruby s Curse, BBC Books
Explaining that it was the fantastic fan community that inspired her to write the novel, Kingston said that she relished the challenge of bringing River to life again on paper and promised that fans will hear the character s distinctive voice in the book. The most important thing is that it s her voice, and keeping her naughtiness, her sort of desire to just get out and have an adventure, her irreverence – but also her connection, the actress explained. I don t want to give away too many spoilers, but she also thinks a lot about her parents. So about Amy and Rory. There s also a side of her which is a little bit more reflective.
Monday, 15th March 2021 at 11:10 am
In Doctor Who, River Song has done it all. Travelling through space and time with various Doctors, battling aliens, investigating crimes in the 1930s and even blowing up a very fetching fez, Alex Kingston’s time-travelling heroine is always a fan favourite – but now, Kingston has new plans for her.
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For now, she has more Big Finish adventures and a brand new River Song novel (written by Kingston herself) to work towards – but in the future, she’s setting her sights on a Doctor/River reunion co-starring Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor.
“It would be a great shame if it were not to happen. Let’s put it that way,” Kingston told
Doctor Who s Alex Kingston Wrote a River Song Novel
The Doctor s wife, River Song, investigates a mystery in a
The Ruby s Curse: A River Song/Melody Malone Mystery. The novel dives into the wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey history of River, the daughter of
Doctor Who companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams. The novel takes place in 1939 when River was a private eye going by the alias Melody Malone. When someone hires Melody to find an artifact stolen from Cleopatra s tomb, River soon finds herself under a mysterious curse.
At Childhood s End, teaming Ace with the Thirteenth Doctor. Here s the synopsis for
The Ruby s Curse, from the BBC:
Doctor Who’s River Song is returning in a sci-fi noir novel that casts her as an international and interdimensional woman of mystery. Even better: our patron saint of spoilers’ new novel, The Ruby’s Curse, will be penned by Alex Kingston herself.