Jacqueline Rayner is a British author, best known for her work with the licensed fiction based on the long-running British

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series '' Doctor Who''.

Biography

Her first professional writing credit came when she adapted

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New Adventure novel '' Oh No It Isn't!'' for the audio format, the first release by Big Finish. (The novel featured the character of

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and was part of a spin-off series from ''Doctor Who''.) She went on to do five of the six Bernice Summerfield audio adaptations and further work for Big Finish before going to work for

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on their ''Doctor Who'' lines. Her first novels came in 2001, with the

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novel '' EarthWorld'' for BBC Books and the Bernice Summerfield novel '' The Squire's Crystal'' for Big Finish. Rayner has written several other ''Doctor Who'' spin-offs and was also for a period the executive producer for the BBC on the Big Finish range of ''Doctor Who'' audio dramas. She has also contributed to the audio range as a writer. In all, her ''Doctor Who'' and related work (Bernice Summerfield stories), consists of five novels, a number of short stories and four original audio plays. Rayner has edited several anthologies of ''Doctor Who'' short stories, mainly for Big Finish, and done work for ''

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''. Beyond ''Doctor Who'', her work includes the children's television tie-in book ''Horses Like Blaze''. With the start of the new television series of ''Doctor Who'' in 2005 and a shift in the BBC's ''Doctor Who'' related book output, Rayner has become, along with

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and Stephen Cole, one of the regular authors of the BBC's

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. She has also abridged several of the books to be made into audiobooks. Rayner was a member of the original Time Team of ''Doctor Who Magazine''.

Selected works

* ''

: Oh No It Isn't!'' (1998) – audio play (based on the novel by

) * ''Bernice Summerfield: Walking to Babylon'' (1998) – audio play (based on the novel by

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) * ''Bernice Summerfield: Birthright'' (1999) – audio play (based on the novel by

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) * ''Bernice Summerfield:

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'' (1999) – audio play (based on the novel by

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) * ''Bernice Summerfield: Making Myths'' (1999) – audio play * ''Bernice Summerfield: Dragons' Wrath'' (2000) – audio play (based on the novel by

) * ''Doctor Who: The Marian Conspiracy'' (2000) – audio play * ''Doctor Who: EarthWorld'' (2001) * ''Pet Rescue: Horses Like Blaze'' (2001) * ''Bernice Summerfield: The Squire's Crystal'' (2001) * ''Doctor Who: Wolfsbane'' (2001) * ''Bernice Summerfield: The Glass Prison'' (2002) * ''Doctor Who: Doctor Who and the Pirates: Or the Lass That Lost a Sailor'' (2003) – audio play * '' Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Grel Escape'' (2004) – audio play * ''Doctor Who:

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'' (2005) * '' Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Kingdom of the Blind'' (2005) – audio play * ''Doctor Who:

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'' (2006) * ''Doctor Who:

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'' (2007) * ''Doctor Who:

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'' (2007) – audio play * ''Doctor Who: The Doomwood Curse'' (2008) – audio play * ''Doctor Who: The Pictures of Emptiness ( The Darksmith Legacy Book 8)'' (2009) * ''Doctor Who: The Transit of Venus'' (2009) – audio play * ''Doctor Who: The Suffering'' (2010) – audio play * ''Bernice Summerfield: The Temple of Questions'' (2011) – audio play * ''Doctor Who: Love and War'' (2012) – audio play (based on the novel by Paul Cornell) * ''Doctor Who: Magic of the Angels'' (2012) * '' Doctor Who: Step Back in Time'' (2012) – with Richard Dungworth * ''Bernice Summerfield: Many Happy Returns'' (2012) – audio play (with Xanna Eve Chown, Stephen Cole, Paul Cornell,

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, Scott Handcock,

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, Justin Richards,

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, Eddie Robson and Dave Stone) * ''Doctor Who:

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'' (2014) – audio play * ''Doctor Who: The Highest Science'' (2014) – audio play (based on the novel by Gareth Roberts)

References

External links

Interview with Jacqueline Rayner
at BBC * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rayner, Jacqueline Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century British novelists 21st-century British dramatists and playwrights 21st-century British women writers British book editors British science fiction writers British women dramatists and playwrights British women novelists Women science fiction and fantasy writers Writers of Doctor Who novels