1.1 – Oh No It Isn’t (Audio)

Professor Bernice Summerfield: 26th century archaeology professor, and tutor at St Oscar's University on the planet Dellah. Prone to getting involved in adventures, scrapes and general derring-do armed only with her wits, cunning and a flask of brandy! Aged about 35ish, but frequently says she's younger. Odd that...  Wolsey: Bernice's pet tabby cat. Her constant companion, shoulder to cry on and convenient excuse, as in: 'Oh sorry. I need to be somewhere else because a certain someone requires feeding.' Has not possessed the ability to speak English before. But then again, he's never grown taller than fourteen inches before.  Pantomime: A theatrical humourous event, usually based about myths and fairy tales. Its origins lie in British harlequinades, although the word derives from the Roman pantomimus, where one actor mimed several different historically-based characters. More familiarly associated with children's Christmas entertainment of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.  The Grel: Seekers of information. Somewhat literal in their thinking and lacking much imagination they do, however, usually get what they want.

1.2 – Beyond the Sun (Audio)

Professor Bernice Summerfield: 26th century archaeology professor, and tutor at St Oscar's University on the planet Dellah. Prone to getting involved in adventures, scrapes and general derring-do armed only with her wits, cunning and a flask of brandy! Aged about 35ish, but frequently says she's younger. Odd that...  Jason Kane: 20th century guy, kidnapped by aliens and taken to the future where he met and married Bernice. Then they got divorced. Spends most of his time these days in bars, getting involved with very dodgy deals, criminal low-lifes and other undesirables. Far more intelligent and resourceful than he gives himself credit for.

1.3 – The Time Ring Trilogy 1: Walking to Babylon (Audio)

Professor Bernice Summerfield: 26th century archaeology professor, and tutor at St Oscar's University on the planet Dellah. Prone to getting involved in adventures, scrapes and general derring-do armed only with her wits, cunning and a flask of brandy! Aged about 35ish, but frequently says she's younger. Odd that...  Jason Kane: 20th century guy, kidnapped by aliens and taken to the future where he met and married Bernice. Then they got divorced. Spends most of his time these days in bars, getting involved with very dodgy deals, criminal low-lifes and other undesirables. Far more intelligent and resourceful than he gives himself credit for.  The Time-Rings: Given to Benny and Jason as wedding rings, they are two extraordinary poewrful devices which, used together, can take them anywhere in time and space. Some people would go to any length to get hold of them...  The People: Now established as the most powerful beings in the cosmos, the People are spoken of in hushed whispers simply because they are, well, the People. Just won a very protracted war with another, similalry powerful race. Not entirely to be trusted.

1.4 – The Time Ring Trilogy 2: Birthright (Audio)

1.5 – The Time Ring Trilogy 3: Just War (Audio)

Professor Bernice Summerfield: 26th century archaeology professor, and tutor at St Oscar's University on the planet Dellah. Prone to getting involved in adventures, scrapes and general derring-do armed only with her wits, cunning and a flask of brandy! Aged about 35ish, but frequently says she's younger. Odd that...  Jason Kane: 20th century guy, kidnapped by aliens and taken to the future where he met and married Bernice. Then they got divorced. Spends most of his time these days in bars, getting involved with very dodgy deals, criminal low-lifes and other undesirables. Far more intelligent and resourceful than he gives himself credit for.  The Time-Rings: Given to Benny and Jason as wedding rings, they are two extraordinary poewrful devices which, used together, can take them anywhere in time and space. Recently they took Benny and Jason to 570BC and then to 1909. Now they've moved them on a bit further- Jason initially to 1936, Bernice straight to 1941!  The Occupation: At the height of their campaigning during World War II, the Nazi's successfully occupied Guernsey and held it for some time, despite the attempts by various resistance factions and the Allied forces to reclaim the island...

1.5a – Buried Treasures (Audio)

Professor Bernice Summerfield: 26th century archaeology professor, and tutor at St Oscar's University on the planet Dellah. Prone to getting involved in adventures, scrapes and general derring-do armed only with her wits, cunning and a flask of brandy! Aged about 35ish, but frequently says she's younger. Odd that...  The Time-Rings: Given to Benny and her ex-husband Jason as wedding rings, they are two extraordinarily powerful devices which, used together, can take them anywhere in time and space. Bernice has now found a reason to use them once again...  Keri the Pakhar: An investigative journalist famous for getting herself into the darkest, most dangerous corners of the galaxy to bring her storeis to her audience. Brave, dedicated and frequently putting her own life at risk, she found time to be Maid of Honor at Benny's wedding and how has her own radio show onto which she can invite whosoever she pleases...  A special subscriber-only giveaway, "Buried Treasures" features the dramatisation of two stories, "Making Myths" by Jac Rayner and "Closure" by Paul Cornell. Also included are interviews and a suite of music. Sarah Mowat later went on to star in BF's "Dalek Empire" series.

1.6 – Dragon’s Wrath (Audio)

Professor Bernice Summerfield: 26th century archaeology professor, and tutor at St Oscar's University on the planet Dellah. Prone to getting involved in adventures, scrapes and general derring-do armed only with her wits, cunning and a flask of brandy! Aged about 35ish, but frequently says she's younger. Odd that...  Romolo Nusek: 26th century overlord of Thaan, claiming to be a direct descendant of the famous Imperator, Hugo Gamalial. He needs confirmation of Gamalial's power-base and so finances an archaeological expedition to Stranturus III. If it finds the proof he requires, Nusek's power-base throughout the galaxy will be assurred...  The Gamelian Dragon: 24th century jewel-encrusted statuette captured by Gamalial from the legendary Knights of Jeneve during a skirmish that has gone down in history as the Imperator's greatest victory - the battle of Bocaro. Possession of the Dragon would appear to be important. To lose it would be an accident. To loose two would be happenstance. Somehow Benny manages to lose three - and no one is terribly impressed by that...

2.1 – Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Dead Men Diaries (Short Story Collection)

Who but Professor Bernice Summerfield, interstellar archaeologist, raconteur, boozer and wit, would get other people to write her autobiography albeit under threat of death from two bounty hunters sent by a publisher far too concerned about little things like deadlines?  These stories are an ideal introduction to the life of Bernice Summerfield: falling off cliffs, getting sacrificed to orange pygmies, saving the universe and trying to buy a new frock. Cliffhanging escapes! Adventure on distant planets! Scones for tea!

My Review: An interesting, if brief, anthology collection.  None of the stories have any real depth apart from one and that's pretty boring anyway.  However as the first Benny book in a while it makes a refreshing change from all those boring old Doctor Who ones...

2.2 – Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Doomsday Manuscript (Novel)

2.3 – Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Secret of Cassandra (Audio) (68' 34")

A vicious war between two nations is coming to a head, and the final movements are centred on the sailing ship Cassandra. Along with a very strange cargo, Cassandra carries Captain Colley, a man with his own sad burden, and the paranoid General Brennan, a woman convinced that her actions will end the war once and for all. Their grim mission goes entirely to plan, until the Cassandra gains an extra passenger ­ a shipwrecked archaeology professor by the name of Bernice Summerfield.  Sensing something is very wrong aboard the ship, Bernice's snooping brings her close to a terrible truth. Soon, Bernice doesn't know who to trust, and she can no longer be sure if anyone is who they claim to be...

My Review: Predictable and dull

2.4 – Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Gods of the Underworld (Novel)

There's a whisper going round that the long-lost temple of the Argian Gods of the Underworld has finally been discovered on the planet Venedel. There's a still quieter whisper that deep inside it lies the Argian Oracle, an ancient artefact that can pinpoint the whereabouts of any soul in the universe. Benny Summerfield sets out to see if the whispers are true ­— and to see if it can tell her the whereabouts of her missing lover. She's got nothing to lose.  Reaching Venedel, Benny finds it under siege from an over-zealous Federation, alleging human rights atrocities and starving the planet out until its people capitulate to its terms. Despite this, a team of Nishtubi mercenaries are running the blockade to supply aid for the Venedelans. But why? They have nothing to gain.  Caught between jingoistic natives, Nishtubi heavies, a plague of ancient killers and the cold, undying secrets of the Gods of the Underworld, Benny and her allies have nowhere to run — and are left facing nothing but trouble.

My Review: Mildly interesting torture the main character story not quite in the same vein as Kate Orman though.  Some cool hight points but it tries too hard not to be Aliens that it ends up like a cheap Aliens clone, oh well...

2.5 – Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Squire's Crystal (Novel)

Legend tells of an evil sorceress who used the power of magical crystals to transfer her mind into the bodies of others. Her reign of terror was long and bloody, and her final defeat the cause of great rejoicing.  But that's just a legend. A story told to children. Isn't it? I mean, it's ridiculous. It couldn't have really happened — could it?  Finding the last resting place of the Crystal Sorceress is an archaeological dream on a par with discovering the Holy Grail. So it's hardly likely that someone will just offer the solution to Professor Bernice Summerfield on a plate.  But sometimes the unlikely actually happens. And one thing that's very, very unlikely is that Benny will suddenly find herself to be a member of the opposite gender!

My Review: This book wastes a lot of pages on padding and minituae, the actual plot is less than one chapter in length, a massive waste of potential...

2.6 – Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Stone's Lament (Audio) (67' 46")

Bratheen Traloor, reclusive billionaire, has lived alone for over twenty years on the planet Rhinvil. Now he has broken his isolation, inviting Bernice Summerfield to examine a mysterious artifact unearthed during building work at his sprawling mansion.  Accompanying Benny is Adrian Wall, the construction manager responsible for overseeing the work, but his construction crew has vanished, and soon Benny and Adrian discover that Traloor is not as alone as he might think.

My Review: An interesting story in that it features Adrian in much more detail than any of the previous books.  The idea of the insane computer being based on Benny is pure Face of Evil but it's given an interesting twist.

2.7 – Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Extinction Event (Audio) (60' 45")

An exclusive auction house is offering the only known object to have survived the destruction of the planet Halstad. Professor Bernice Summerfield goes with Irving Braxiatel to secure this unique object for the Braxiatel Collection. But this is not a straightforward sale ­ there is a murderer on the loose, on the trail of whoever owns the Halstad Harp.

My Review: Pretty good story, it's nice to finally hear Brax and he's not as plummy as I feared.  The morality of the story is dubious as Brax seems a one track magpie minded liberal when it suits him and a right wing hawk when he tries to justify sending someone to his death.  Benny is full of angst and seems to have forgotten everything she learned from the Doctor.

2.8 – Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Infernal Nexus (Novel)

Acting on an abstruse tip-off from the reknowned paraphysiologist Dr. Rupert Gilhooly (a man who, like, knows a lot of stuff) one Bernice Summerfield has found herself on a probe-ship heading deep into the Problematic Heart of the galaxy  - not knowing what, or quite who, she might find.  What she finds is Station Control. A place that exists, simultaniously, in four hundred and seventeen dimensions, a brawling,souk-like Nexus between every world that can, or has or ever will be. And one of those dimensions is Hell.  Bernice knows nothing of the rivalries and power-plays going on here.  So she blunders right into them and makes a complete hash of everything, natch. And one of the particular whoms she finds, quite frankly, what with one thing and another, she could quite well do without. In her current state.

2.9 – Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Skymines of Karthos (Audio) (64' 57")

When Bernice receives a message from her old friend Caitlin, saying that she's found evidence of a ruined civilisation on the mining colony of Karthos, the good professor is naturally intrigued. After all, the planet is meant to be barren, with no life other than the colonists.  Arriving on Karthos, Bernice finds that Caitlin is missing, and the colony is under attack from vicious creatures that seem to have come from nowhere. Bernice has no choice but to set out for the heart of the ruins to discover just why Karthos seems to have sprung to life once more...

2.10 – Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Glass Prison (Novel)

Don't ever annoy the Fifth Axis. They might throw you into the Glass Prison on Deirbhile­ and then throw away the key.  Once you're inside, there's nowhere to hide. They can see your every movement. They control you. You're going to be watched for the rest of your life, wherever you go, whoever you are. Even if you're a professor of archaeology. Even if you're a friend of the famous Irving Braxiatel, and you've written several popular coffee-table books.  Even if you're pregnant. Even if your baby's due any day now.  But, of course, they know all about your baby. And they're planning to take it away.  That is, unless the loony cultists you're locked up with don't get it first.

3.1 – Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Greatest Shop in the Galaxy (Audio) (61' 46")

Benny is not digging up the car park of the Gigamarket for nothing. Oh no. There's no way on Sirius One Bee that you could conclude that she was there for any other reason than to investigate the famed Latrines of Baladroon.  Shoes? She was there to buy shoes? Get outta town! Get off the planet bub! And don't come back until you've washed out your brain with new-biological-Cortexscour.  Monsters? Nah! Don't be silly! The Borvali are on their side on the force wall ­ they could never break through it. And anyway, what would a cross between a ten-foot Pepperami and a cockeyed autopsy want with the Greatest Shop in the Galaxy? I mean, come on ­ what would they want to buy?  And Time Anomalies? You need the science fiction section on the four hundred and twelfth floor of the book department if you want Time Anomalies, mate. Tch!  Everything here is under control. Honest.

3.2 – Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Green-Eyed Monsters (Audio) (56' 34")

It isn't all fun for a new mum.  Not only do you have to deal with the lack of sleep, the occasional embarrassing leak and the constant round of unexploded nappies – you have to deal with a couple of testeronically-charged idiots who won't get it through their skulls that you don't want either of them to be the Dad. Even though one of them technically is.  So when Benny gets the chance to skip off for a while, heading into a Goronos System packed with duplicity and peril to authenticate certain highly significant artifacts and totems, she doesn't have to think twice.  Only, sometimes, as she'll learn, when heading into duplicity and peril, it's not a good idea to leave a hostage to fortune behind ...

3.3 – Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Plague Herds of Excelis (Audio) (71' 45")

3.4 – Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Dance of the Dead (Audio) (64' 54")

Illegally smuggled aboard a spaceship, hung over to the nth degree, all Benny Summerfield wants is to curl up in a ball and die. And it looks like she's going to get her chance.  When disaster strikes the ship – human error, or deliberate sabotage?  – Benny barely survives. Banding together with a party of Ice Warriors and a laconic steward, a hazardous, arduous race is on to find a way out of the wreck before it breaks up all together. But are her fellow escapees all they seem? Benny finds that's hard to tell when your own mind's being hijacked by the memories and emotions of a dead alien – while a Martian Grand Marshall becomes your better half...

3.5 – Professor Bernice Summerfield “A Life of Surprises” (Short Story Collection)

Professor Bernice Summerfield, interstellar archaeologist, adventurer, romantic and drinker, has had either one very big life or a number of only slightly smaller ones.  This anthology contains stories from many times and places across her long career, ranging from the starkly dramatic, through the thrilling, to the hilarious.  It links Bernice to her roots, as well as sending her forward into new adventures. And it celebrates a decade of Bernice in print. Cheers!

3.6 – Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Mirror Effect (Audio) (71' 21")

Do you believe in the mirror or do you believe in yourself?  Under the ice on a cold world lie the derelict remains of the lost Grid 4 Mining Station. Inside the station is a mirror, an ancient alien artefact, its existence known to few. Inside the mirror is one Professor Bernice Summerfield, and she can't get out. Trapped and alone in a place she cannot trust, with her friends distorted and turned against her, she is haunted by fears and reflections.  And inside Bernice Summerfield is a little baby creature that wants her to be mother.

4.1 – Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Bellotron Incident (Audio) (70' 22")

Two aggressive alien races.  A war that has raged for centuries.  A planet that orbits through no mans land.  The Rutan/Sontaran conflict has started to endanger the Terran trade routes, but when the Captain of the battle cruiser Rites of Passage finds an energy signature of artificial origin on the primitive planet of Bellotron he is duty bound to call in the assistance of a qualified academic.  Confronted by savage predators, fiendish traps and the unexpected involvement of an opportunist thief, an unwilling Benny finds herself caught up in a conflict where neither side plays by the rules ­ and no-one is quite what they seem...

4.2 – Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Draconian Rage (Audio) (77' 24")

On the fringes of the Draconian Empire, an entire planet has gone mad: twenty million Draconians lie dead ­ victims of an ancient, apocalyptic suicide ritual.  Now the Draconians need an archaeologist ­ and in particular they want Professor Bernice Summerfield.  Female and human, Benny is everything a Draconian distrusts. So why has she been invited to the very heart of the Imperial Homeworld?  As an age-old conspiracy deepens around her, and her own bad memories are disturbed, Benny wonders if she can really trust the Draconians And, even worse, if she can even trust herself?

4.3 – Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Poison Seas (Audio) (77' 24")

Professor Bernice Summerfield's life has never been what you could call simple. But, just as she really feels like things at the Braxiatel Collection might be settling down to some sort of normality, she is sent away from the comforts of home on a mission for the Earth Reptile Council.  Bernice has visited the planet Chosan before, so she seems the ideal candidate to intervene when a Sea Devil colony there comes under threat from a terrorist cell. Under cover of visiting an old friend, Bernice sets out to learn who is working in league with the terrorists to ensure the eradication of the colony.  But as she delves deeper under the oceans of Chosan, she discovers that something else ­ something much more ancient and powerful ­ wants rid of the Sea Devils. Soon, every living thing on the planet is in peril. And all because there's no place like home...

4.4 – Professor Bernice Summerfield “Life During Wartime” (Short Story Collection)

4.5 – Professor Bernice Summerfield “Death and the Daleks” (Audio) (109' 49")

The Braxiatel Collection has been occupied by the Fifth Axis, led by a figure from Bernice's past.  As Bernice's friends rise up to end the occupation, Bernice embarks on a desperate rescue mission, to somewhere she last went long ago.  Braxiatel confronts his destiny, Jason risks all for his love, and lives are shattered and lost, as the battle of the Braxiatel Collection reaches its epic conclusion.  Our heroes will live free or die...