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A Life Worth Living

This book is a short story anthology set in Big Finish Productions' Professor Bernice Summerfield series. Bernice Summerfield appears in many original New Adventures of Doctor Who novels, as well as short stories and other fiction.

Fourteen brand-new short stories about Bernice Summerfield (some-time adventurer, even-less-time academic) and her extended "family". There's Jason Kane (ex-husband, ex-buccaneer, ex-author of xeno-porn) and Irving Braxiatel (employer, Renaissance Man, sneaky devil). There's Bev, Adrian, Ms Jones and Peter. There's Hass, the new gardener, just arrived from Mars. There's the invasion of new students. And, inevitably, there's the mysteries, murders, mayhem and major weirdness that happen whenever Benny gets out of bed.

The war is over. The Braxiatel Collection is back to normal. Better than that, people are all making more of an effort ­ to rebuild, to get on, to re-establish the Collection at the forefront of academic excellence. Benny and Jason are back together. Life is good.

It's not going to last, is it?

Soon Benny is up to her eyeballs in strange deaths, sinister cults, peculiar love affairs and a Collection full of people who haven't yet stopped fighting.

Spend a whole year with Benny!

The Stories

Misplaced Spring by Paul Cornell

Welcome to the Machine by Sin Deniz

Final Draft by Cameron Mason

Against Gardens Eddie Robson

A Summer Affair by Joseph Lidster

Denial by Ian Mond

Sex Secrets of the Robot Replicants by Philip Purser-Hallard

The Blame of the Nose by Ben Woodhams

Reparation by Gregg Smith

Nothing up my Sleeve by Richard Salter

Buried Alive by Kate Orman

There Never Need be Longing in your Eyes by Ian Farrington

Mentioning the War by Nick Walters

Fragments by Stewart Sheargold

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 176
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781844351091
  • Characters
  • Bernice Summerfield
  • Release date
  • 2005