Down (novel)

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Down
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Author Lawrence Miles
Cover artistMark Salwowski
Series Doctor Who book:
Virgin New Adventures
Release number
5
SubjectFeaturing:
Bernice Summerfield
Publisher Virgin Books
Publication date
September 1997
ISBN 0-426-20512-X
Preceded by Ship of Fools  
Followed by Deadfall  

Down is an original novel by Lawrence Miles featuring the fictional archaeologist Bernice Summerfield. The New Adventures were a spin-off from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who .

As with some other Bernice Summerfield fiction, the novel is written as if taken from Bernice's diaries and, as such, explores the implications of her being an unreliable narrator. The novel includes characters from the People, an alien civilisation introduced in The Also People .

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