Doctor Who: The Ruby’s Curse

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The book sees Kingston’s onscreen alter-ego River Song teaming up with her own fictional alter-ego, the irrepressible private investigator Melody Malone. The ruby might hold the secret to the location of Cleopatra’s tomb – but everyone who comes into contact with it dies. River’s worlds are built on beautifully: we get references to what happened to Amy and Rory after The Angels Take Manhattan; we get immersed in historical events; we learn more about her not-quite-fictional alter ego, Melody Malone, private eye in 1930s New York; and we find out substantially more about Stormcage, the jail she spends her days in after possibly killing the Doctor. Elizabeth Corday in ER, made her first appearance in Doctor Who for 2008’s Silence in the Library and has continued to play River Song on TV and audio to this day. And together they must solve another mystery: Is fiction changing into fact - or is fact changing into fiction?

Reviewed: Doctor Who – The Ruby’s Curse by Alex Kingston

Part of that might be the way the novel emulates Doctor Who so excellently, successfully jumping between genres, ideas, and styles. The Ruby’s Curse hits the shelves on the 20th May 2021 and I’ll be posting my thoughts about it on release.We celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories, traditions and living cultures; and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. To tie into the Doctor Who episode The Angels Take Manhattan, BBC Books released an ebook of The Angel’s Kiss– the book featured in the episode where the titular Melody Malone (actually River in disguise) helps the Doctor, Amy and Rory defeat the Weeping Angels. The ruby might hold the secret to the location of Cleopatra's tomb - but everyone who comes into contact with it dies.

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River Song, author of the Melody Malone Mysteries, is forced to find a reality-altering weapon, the Eye of Horus - but everyone who comes into contact with it dies. It’s also not the first time River and Melody have appeared in books, with River headlining her own anthology book – The Legends of River Song– in 2016. River is a divisive character too, so anyone picking The Ruby’s Curse up is likely to be a fan of Professor Song anyway… and in that case, it’ll deliver exactly what those readers will be looking for.Disney+ Releases New Doctor Who Trailer for 60th Anniver– WAIT, IS THAT BONNIE LANGFORD AS MEL BUSH?