Dead of Winter (novel)

Dead of Winter
Doctor:	Eleventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Amy, Rory
Main enemy:	Prince Boris
Main setting:	Italy, 18th century
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Books
Writer:	James Goss
Read by:	Clare Corbett
Release details
Release number:	43
Release date:	28 April 2011 3 November 2011 (Audio)
Format:	Hardcover, 255 pages
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84990-238-0
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Dead of Winter was the forty-third novel in the BBC New Series Adventures series. It was written by James Goss and featured the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams.

Publisher's summary

2011 BBC Books Edition

"The Dead are not alone. There is something in the mist and it talks to them."

In Dr Bloom's clinic at a remote spot on the Italian coast, at the end of the 18th century, nothing is ever quite what it seems. Maria is a lonely little girl with no one to play with. She writes letters to her mother from the isolated resort where she is staying. She tells of the pale English aristocrats and the mysterious Russian nobles and their attentive servants.

She tells of intrigue and secrets, and she tells of strange faceless figures that rise from the sea. She writes about the enigmatic Mrs Pond who arrives with her husband and her physician, and who will change everything. What she doesn't tell her mother is the truth that everyone knows and no one says – that the only people who come here do so to die.

2015 BBC Books Edition

In a remote clinic in 18th century Italy, a lonely girl writes to her mother. She tells of pale English aristocrats and mysterious Russian nobles. She tells of intrigues and secrets, and strange faceless figures that rise up from the sea. And she tells about the enigmatic Mrs Pond, who arrives with her husband and her trusted physician.

What the girl doesn't tell her mother is the truth that everyone at the clinic knows and no one says – that the only people who come here do so to die.

An adventure set in 18th century Italy, featuring the Eleventh Doctor as played by Matt Smith and his companions Amy and Rory.

Plot

to be added

Characters

• Eleventh Doctor
• Amy Pond
• Rory Williams
• Maria
• Johann Bloom
• Henry Nevil
• Perdita Bloom
• Prince Boris
• Kosov
• Olivia Elquitine
• Helena Elquitine

References

The Doctor

• The Doctor comments that he hasn't had to learn English while talking about where the TARDIS was.

Foods and beverages

• Rory drinks wine while dining with Dr Bloom.
• The Doctor eats several ginger biscuits, before spitting half of one out and declaring that he hates them.

TARDIS

• The TARDIS uses its Hostile Action Displacement System to move itself through space and time.

Notes

• This story was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store.
• The novel was reprinted as part of The History Collection in February 2015, with a new cover and introduction by Goss.

Audio release

• The story was released as an audiobook on 6x CD read by Clare Corbett.

Continuity

• Amy brings up the Doctor's terrible dancing. (TV: The Big Bang)
• Amy recalls having travelled through universes with the Doctor. (TV: The Doctor's Wife, PROSE: The Coming of the Terraphiles)

Additional cover images

Audiobook cover

The History Collection cover

External links

• Official Dead of Winter page at Penguin Books
• Dead of Winter at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: Dead of Winter at The Whoniverse
• The Cloister Library: Dead of Winter