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Ben Aaronovitch Biography & Facts

Ben Dylan Aaronovitch (born 22 February 1964) is an English author and screenwriter. He is the author of the series of novels Rivers of London. He also wrote two Doctor Who serials in the late 1980s and spin-off novels from Doctor Who and Blake's 7. Biography Family Born in Camden, Aaronovitch is the son of the economist Sam Aaronovitch who was a senior member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and the younger brother of actor Owen Aaronovitch and journalist David Aaronovitch. He attended Holloway School. Aaronovitch lives in Wimbledon. Doctor Who and television work Aaronovitch wrote two Doctor Who serials, Remembrance of the Daleks (1988) and Battlefield (1989), for BBC television, and also the novelization of the former. He wrote one episode for Casualty (1990) and was then a regular writer on the science fiction series Jupiter Moon. He subsequently wrote or co-wrote three Doctor Who spin-off novels in the Virgin Publishing New Adventures range; he created the character Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart who became a semi-regular in the New Adventures. He has also written a novel and several short stories published by Big Finish Productions featuring the character of Bernice Summerfield, who was originally developed in the New Adventures. He also co-wrote a Doctor Who audio drama for Big Finish, and has written a number of Blake's 7 spin-off audio dramas. Proposed serials of “Doctor Who” Knight Fall In May 1987, Aaronovitch submitted “Knight Fall” to the Doctor Who production office for Season 25. The story concerned privatization. Script editor Andrew Cartmel liked the story ideas, but felt that the script was inappropriate for the series and had too many supporting characters. Transit After failing to feature Aaronovitch's “Knight Fall” storyline to production, Aaronovitch submitted a story in June 1987, entitled Transit. The story would see the Doctor and Ace in the future, land in a metro station, and discover transportation portals that could lead any body throughout the Solar System, but one of the portals leads a gate way to hell. Even though it is unexplainable to how Aaronovitch's scripts of “Transit” never came to fruition, he would adapt the story as a book for Virgin New Adventures series in December 1992. Bad Destination During Summer of 1988, Aaronovitch submitted a three-part adventure story for Doctor Who’s 27th Season (which never came to fruition), and was called ”Bad Destination”. The story would feature The Doctor seeing Ace as a captain of a hospital spaceship which is being under attack by the Metatraxi. The story, however, was abandoned when, in September 1989, the BBC cancelled Doctor Who after its 26 Season, due to declining audiences. In July 2011, Big Finish Productions released the story as Earth Aid, by Aaronovitch and Cartmel. Television Doctor Who Remembrance of the Daleks (1988) Battlefield (1989) Casualty "Results" (1990) Jupiter Moon Episode 69 (1990) Episode 70 (1990) Episode 80 (1990) Episode 81 (1990) Episode 95 (1990) Episode 119 (1996) Episode 120 (1996) Episode 131 (1996) Episode 132 (1996) Episode 148 (1996) Dark Knight "Stonegod" (2001) Audio dramas Blake's 7 Rebel (2007) When Vila Met Gan (2008) Eye of the Machine (2008) Blood and Earth (2009) Doctor Who Earth Aid (with Andrew Cartmel; 2011) Novels Doctor Who Novelisations Remembrance of the Daleks Virgin New Adventures Transit The Also People So Vile a Sin (with Kate Orman) Rivers of London Rivers of London (published as Midnight Riot in the US) (2011) ISBN 9781782761877 Moon Over Soho (2011) ISBN 9780345524591 Whispers Under Ground (2012) ISBN 9780345524614 Broken Homes (2013) ISBN 9780575132467 Foxglove Summer (2014) ISBN 9780575132504 The Hanging Tree (3 November 2016) ISBN 9780575132559 The Furthest Station (28 September 2017) ISBN 9781473222427—novella, set between Foxglove Summer and The Hanging Tree Lies Sleeping (6 November 2018) ISBN 9781473207813 The October Man (31 May 2019) – novella, set after Lies Sleeping in Germany, with Tobias Winter as the main character False Value (20 February 2020) ISBN 9781473207851 (Hardback); ISBN 9781473207868 (Export Trade Paperback); ISBN 9781473207882 (eBook) What Abigail Did That Summer (18 March 2021) – novella ISBN 9781473224346 (Hardback); ISBN 9781473224360 (eBook) Amongst our Weapons (7 April 2022) ISBN 9781473226661 (Hardback) Winter's Gifts (novella) (8 June 2023) (Hardback / eBook / AudioBook) Others Genius Loci Comics Rivers of London – Body Work Body Work #1 – 16 July 2015 Body Work #2 – 19 August 2015 Body Work #3 – 16 September 2015 Body Work #4 – 21 October 2015 Body Work #5 – 20 November 2015 Body Work (collection/graphic novel) – 29 March 2016 ISBN 9781782761877 Rivers of London – Night Witch Night Witch #1 – 16 March 2016 Night Witch #2 – 13 April 2016 Night Witch #3 – 18 May 2016 Night Witch (collection/graphic novel) – 1 November 2016 ISBN 9781785852930 Rivers of London – Black Mould Black Mould #1 – 12 October 2016 Black Mould #2 – 16 November 2016 Black Mould #3 – 21 December 2016 Black Mould #4 – 1 February 2017 Black Mould #5 – 8 March 2017 Black Mould (collection/graphic novel) – 25 July 2017 ISBN 9781785855108 Rivers of London – Detective Stories Detective Stories #1 – 7 June 2017 Detective Stories #2 – 12 July 2017 Detective Stories #3 – 9 August 2017 Detective Stories #4 – 13 September 2017 Detective Stories (collection/graphic novel) – 29 December 2017 ISBN 9781785861710 Rivers of London – Cry Fox Cry Fox #1 - 8 November 2017 Cry Fox #2 - 13 December 2017 Cry Fox #3 - 17 January 2018 Cry Fox #4 - 25 April 2018 Cry Fox (collection/graphic novel) – 26 June 2018 ISBN 9781785861727 Rivers of London – Water Weed Water Weed #1 - 20 June 2018 Water Weed #2 - 18 July 2018 Water Weed #3 - 15 August 2018 Water Weed #4 - 19 September 2018 Water Weed (collection/graphic novel) – 30 November 2018 ISBN 9781785865459 Rivers of London – Action at a Distance Action at a Distance #1 - 17 October 2018 Action at a Distance #2 - 21 November 2018 Action at a Distance #3 - 19 December 2018 Action at a Distance #4 - 20 January 2019 Action at a Distance (collection/graphic novel) – 1 November 2019 ISBN 9781785865466 Rivers of London – The Fey & The Furious The Fey & The Furious #1 - 6 November 2019 The Fey & The Furious #2 - 11 December 2019 The Fey & The Furious #3 - 8 January 2020 The Fey & The Furious #4 - 5 February 2020 The Fey & The Furious (collection/graphic novel) – 1 November 2020 ISBN 9781785865862 Rivers of London – Monday, Monday Monday, Monday #1 - 7 July 2021 Monday, Monday #2 - 18 August 2021 Monday, Monday #3 - 1 September 2021 Monday, Monday #4 - 6 October 2021 Monday, Monday (collection/graphic novel) – 5 January 2021 ISBN 9781787736269 Rivers of London – Deadly Ever After Deadly Ever After #1 - 18 May 2022 Deadly Ever After #2 - 22 June 2022 Deadly Ever After #3 - 10 August 2022 Deadly Ever After #4 - 21 September 2022 Deadly Ever After (collection/graphic novel) – 25 Janu.... 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  • Little Donkey synopsis, comments

    Little Donkey

    Jodi Taylor

    A Frogmorton Farm short story. Catch up with the characters from Jodi Taylor's bestselling novel, The Nothing Girl, as they navigate the complexities of the local nativity play in ...

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    Strange Magic

    Syd Moore

    Rosie Strange doesn't believe in ghosts or witches or magic. No, not at all. It’s no surprise therefore when she inherits the ramshackle Essex Witch Museum, her first thought is to...

  • The Hanging Tree synopsis, comments

    The Hanging Tree

    Ben Aaronovitch

    Ben Aaronovitch's bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series “The perfect blend of CSI and Harry Potter.” io9Suspicious deaths are not usually the concern of Police Constab...

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    A Perfect Storm

    Jodi Taylor

    A Chronicles of St Mary's short story that is sure to entertain. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor. You don't have to travel thr...

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    The Prose Edda

    Jesse Byock

    The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythology. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the V...

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    Santa Grint

    Jodi Taylor

    The brand new TIME POLICE short story from millioncopy bestselling author of THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S.It all begins when the Time Police hold their first Children's Christmas Pa...

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    When a Child is Born

    Jodi Taylor

    A Chronicles of St Mary's short story that is sure to entertain. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor. It's Christmas Day 1066 and ...

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    The Ungrateful Dead

    Adam Simcox

    The gripping third instalment in Adam Simcox's supernatural crime DYING SQUAD series.A MISSING DETECTIVEDetective Joe Lazarus is missing. The Dying Squad are on the case, but follo...

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    Broken Homes

    Ben Aaronovitch

    Ben Aaronovitch's bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series  “The perfect blend of CSI and Harry Potter.” io9A mutilated body in Crawley. A killer on the loo...

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    The War in the Dark

    Nick Setchfield

    A genredefying page turner that fuses thriller and speculative fiction with dark fantasy in a hidden world in the heart of Cold War Europe.Europe. 1963. And the true Cold War&...

  • The Dying Squad synopsis, comments

    The Dying Squad

    Adam Simcox

    'Darkly entertaining police procedural with a difference' CRIME REVIEW'Fizzes with life' STUART TURTON, Costa First Novel Award winner'A thrilling ride with dark humour, action an...

  • Joy to the World synopsis, comments

    Joy to the World

    Jodi Taylor

    A Frogmorton Farm short story from the bestselling author of the Chronicles of St Mary's. Perfect for fans of Sarah Addison Allen, Kristen Ashley and Genevieve Cogman.It's Christma...

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    The Sagas of the Icelanders

    Jane Smiley

    In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world’s great literary treasures – as epic as Homer,...

  • The Vinyl Detective - Flip Back synopsis, comments

    The Vinyl Detective - Flip Back

    Andrew Cartmel

    The fourth book in the hilarious and enthralling Vinyl Detective mystery series. "Like an old 45rpm record, this book crackles with brilliance." David Quantick on Written in Dead W...

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    Christmas Past

    Jodi Taylor

    A Chronicles of St Mary's short story that is sure to entertain. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor. The First Farrell Family Chr...

  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight synopsis, comments

    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    Bernard O'Donoghue

    'Tomorrow I must set off to receive that blow, to seek out that creature in green, God help me!'J.R.R. Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating and teaching the great e...

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    Lies Sleeping

    Ben Aaronovitch

    The seventh book of the bestselling Rivers of London series returns to the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes in the city of Lo...

  • The Saga of the Volsungs synopsis, comments

    The Saga of the Volsungs

    Jesse Byock

    The epic Viking Age stories that inspired J. R. R. Tolkien and Wagner's Ring cycleWritten in thirteenthcentury Iceland but based on ancient Norse poetry cycles, The Saga of the Vol...

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    This Charming Man

    C. K. McDonnell

    STOP PRESS! The Stranger Times wins the 2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Audio Work!Vampires do not exist. Everyone knows this. So it's particularly annoying when they start pop...

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    Plan for the Worst

    Jodi Taylor

    'A great mix of British properness and humour with a large dollop of historical fun' BOOK 11 IN THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S SERIESFor fans of Richard O...

  • The Toast of Time synopsis, comments

    The Toast of Time

    Jodi Taylor

    A Christmas short story from the 'Queen of Time', internationally bestselling author of The Chronicles of St Mary's, Jodi Taylor.'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time. Her...

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    Amongst Our Weapons

    Ben Aaronovitch

    The ninth novel of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns to the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes in t...

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    Dark Light

    Jodi Taylor

    The second novel in the gripping supernatural thriller series from international bestselling author Jodi Taylor.Betrayed, terrified and alone, Elizabeth Cage has fled her home. Wit...

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    Beowulf

    Michael Alexander

    Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, Beowulf is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings'So the company of men le...

  • The Vinyl Detective - Victory Disc synopsis, comments

    The Vinyl Detective - Victory Disc

    Andrew Cartmel

    The third book in the hilarious and enthralling Vinyl Detective mystery series. "Like an old 45rpm record, this book crackles with brilliance." David Quantick on Written in Dead Wa...

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    Christmas Present

    Jodi Taylor

    A Chronicles of St Mary's short story that is sure to entertain. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor. It's Christmas Eve at St Mar...

  • The Saga of the Volsungs synopsis, comments

    The Saga of the Volsungs

    Jesse Byock

    Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, Beowulf is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings'So the company of men le...

  • The Very First Damned Thing synopsis, comments

    The Very First Damned Thing

    Jodi Taylor

    A Chronicles of St Mary's short story that is sure to entertain. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor. Ever wondered how it all beg...

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    Roman Holiday

    Jodi Taylor

    A Chronicles of St Mary's short story that is sure to entertain. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor. Question: What sort of idiot...

  • And Now for Something Completely Different synopsis, comments

    And Now for Something Completely Different

    Jodi Taylor

    A Chronicles of St Mary's short story that is sure to entertain. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor. Here's a question for you. W...

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    Long Shadows

    Jodi Taylor

    BOOK 3 IN THE GRIPPING SUPERNATURAL SERIES BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'SI don't know who I am. I don't know what I am. The identity of Elizabeth Cage has...

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    The Ordeal of the Haunted Room

    Jodi Taylor

    A Christmas ghost story Chronicles of St Mary's style! For fans of Doctor Who and Jasper Fforde... and A Christmas Carol. Where better for the annual festive jump than the chance ...

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    False Value

    Ben Aaronovitch

    Now in paperback, the eighth book of the bestselling Rivers of London series returns to the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes ...

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    Foxglove Summer

    Ben Aaronovitch

    Ben Aaronovitch's bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series  “The perfect blend of CSI and Harry Potter.” io9  2015 Locus Recommended Rea...

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    Ships and Stings and Wedding Rings

    Jodi Taylor

    A Chronicles of St Mary's short story that is sure to entertain. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor. It's Christmas at St Mary's ...

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    The Battersea Barricades

    Jodi Taylor

    A Chronicles of St Mary's short story that is sure to entertain. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor. It's not easy being a rebel....

  • White Silence synopsis, comments

    White Silence

    Jodi Taylor

    The first instalment in the gripping supernatural thriller series from international bestselling author, Jodi Taylor.'I don't know who I am. I don't know what I am.'Elizabeth Cage ...

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    The Steam-Pump Jump

    Jodi Taylor

    A Chronicles of St Mary's short story that is sure to entertain. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor. Not one to let being banged ...

  • Relight My Fire synopsis, comments

    Relight My Fire

    C. K. McDonnell

    The Stranger Times winner of the 2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Audio Work!Some comebacks can be murder . . .Stella is enjoying life as an almost student, or at least she is ...

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    Momenticon

    Andrew Caldecott

    A hugely compelling, dark, offbeat adventure from the bestselling author of ROTHERWEIRD.'A deeply strange but also deeply compelling world' Blue Book BalloonThe world has become a ...