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Available
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Publication
Helsinki : WSOY, 2006
Description
Fiction. Science Fiction. HTML: In 1920s London the Doctor and Rose find themselves caught up in the hunt for a mysterious murderer. But not everyone or everything is what they seem. Secrets lie behind locked doors and inhuman killers roam the streets. Who is the Painted Lady and why is she so interested in the Doctor? How can a cat return from the dead? Can anyone be trusted to tell or even to know the truth? With the faceless killers closing in, the Doctor and Rose must solve the mystery of the Clockwise Man before London itself is destroyed... Read by Nicholas Briggs, 'The Clockwise Man' features the Doctor and Rose, as played by Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper in the hit series from BBC Television..
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LibraryThing member Shijuro
Enjoyable story, particularly good dialog between the Doctor and Rose.
LibraryThing member celticstar
Great story with lots of unexpected twists.
LibraryThing member draigwen
I don't normally read books based on TV series' or films, but seeing as this (along with nine others) was on offer I decided to buy it. It's not going to win any prizes for writing style, but I found the story exciting and engaging and it kept me reading more than any book has since the last Harry
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Potter. Like a good Whodunnit it kept me guessing at who the bad guy might be and what really was going on, slowly giving me snippet by snippet of information so that I would realise something shortly before Rose or the Doctor did. The pace was excellent and that's what matters in a book like this. I was going to read a completely different book next but this has entertained me so much I've now picked up the next one! Show Less
LibraryThing member JulesJones
The first of the tie-in novels issued for New Who, and as such featuring Nine (Chris Eccleston) and Rose, who have landed in 1920s London and promptly get tangled up with not one but two deposed heirs to a throne. One is a young boy with haemophilia; the other appears to be the prince of some small
It would be unfair to criticise this novel for giving me a slight sense of deja vu, because it was published during the first series of the Who revival, long before the tv episodes which revisit some of the same ground. (I can think of at least three at the time of writing this review, though naming them would be too spoilerish.) This is a competently written tie-in with some interesting themes and a nice sf mystery, and while I don't get a solid sense of a specific regeneration's personality, this is clearly the Doctor and his world. An enjoyable way to pass a couple of hours.
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east European country. And there are assassins on the loose -- assassins who are accompanied by the sound of clockwork. Add in a woman who always goes masked and who recognises the sonic screwdriver as inappropriate technology, and the Doctor and Rose have quite a task on their hands in sorting out friend from foe.It would be unfair to criticise this novel for giving me a slight sense of deja vu, because it was published during the first series of the Who revival, long before the tv episodes which revisit some of the same ground. (I can think of at least three at the time of writing this review, though naming them would be too spoilerish.) This is a competently written tie-in with some interesting themes and a nice sf mystery, and while I don't get a solid sense of a specific regeneration's personality, this is clearly the Doctor and his world. An enjoyable way to pass a couple of hours.
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LibraryThing member Othemts
My Doctor Who obsession continues in the printed word with this adventure taking the Ninth Doctor and Rose to Edwardian London. They are soon embroiled in a mystery that involves, yep, aliens. It’s a good story and one that probably works best as a novel that wouldn’t translate to the screen.
LibraryThing member hwlester
Shortly after the new Doctor Who series launched in 2005, BBC Books launched a series of original books featuring the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler as portrayed on television by Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper. These books have commonly come to be known as the New Series Adventures. These
In The Clockwise Man by Justin Richards, the Doctor and Rose land at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924, where they discover that people are being murdered. In the process of investigating, they meet, among other people, the deposed Czar of Russia. One character referenced simply as Anna in the novel is most likely supposed to be Anastasia.
I'm not going to go into a lengthy exposition on this book, but I certainly enjoyed it. It was nice to "see" Christopher Eccleston and Rose again. I really liked Eccleston as the Doctor and felt he didn't stay long enough. The novel also featured clockwork men which were not too dissimilar to those later featured in The Girl in the Fireplace. I'm not sure if there was any connection between them, but there doesn't appear to be. The novel also mentioned "Bad Wolf", which was part of the story arc for this season: a nice touch.
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books were launched 3 at a time with the first three being The Clockwise Man, The Monsters Inside , and Winner Takes All .In The Clockwise Man by Justin Richards, the Doctor and Rose land at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924, where they discover that people are being murdered. In the process of investigating, they meet, among other people, the deposed Czar of Russia. One character referenced simply as Anna in the novel is most likely supposed to be Anastasia.
I'm not going to go into a lengthy exposition on this book, but I certainly enjoyed it. It was nice to "see" Christopher Eccleston and Rose again. I really liked Eccleston as the Doctor and felt he didn't stay long enough. The novel also featured clockwork men which were not too dissimilar to those later featured in The Girl in the Fireplace. I'm not sure if there was any connection between them, but there doesn't appear to be. The novel also mentioned "Bad Wolf", which was part of the story arc for this season: a nice touch.
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LibraryThing member LouisVillains
Good solid story from Justin Richards - and it was great to have one more adventure with the 9th Doctor!
LibraryThing member iamjonlarson
It's a quick, fun read if you're a fan of the Doctor, but its not going to win any literary awards.
LibraryThing member melydia
The ninth Doctor and Rose land in 1920s London, where they meet a number of people with largely mysterious backgrounds. There are robots and exiled royals and cats and a sick child, and all in all it's a rather fun little tale. However, as much as I enjoyed this story, it didn't feel all that
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specific to Doctor Who. Heck, the Doctor had neither TARDIS nor sonic screwdriver for the majority of the book. Neither he nor Rose spoke like their television counterparts. He didn't even ever say, "Fantastic!" Show Less
LibraryThing member knotbox
Pure entertainment. The main characters felt a bit off, but the story made up for it with some very exciting, and Whovian, plot elements. Best bits include... a cat with emerald eyes, the real Anastasia, clockwork machines, a revolutionary, missing things, and a sad Doctor.
Don't mistake this for
Don't mistake this for
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high-quality, literary-fiction. This is a fun romp through 1920s London, and that is all it should be expected of delivering. Show Less
LibraryThing member ViragoReads
This was interesting. I enjoyed reading about the adventures that we didn't see. I had always imagined there were dozens of trips in between the television versions. I had read that some people were let down by the Doctor Who books, but I don't see why. This was as good as any of the sticky
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situations they found themselves in on TV only a bit more in-depth. If that's even possible; they seem to fit quite a bit into a single episode. All-in-all the book and story were good. I plan to continue reading the "New Adventures Series". Show Less
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2005-05-19
Physical description
261 p.; 18.5 cm
ISBN
9789510321966