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novel name= Trace Memory |
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series=[[Torchwood]] - [[BBC Torchwood novels]]|
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number= 5 |
|series = [[BBC Torchwood novels]]
main character=Captain [[Jack Harkness]]|
|number= 5  
featuring= |
|main character=[[Jack Harkness|Jack]], [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]], [[Toshiko Sato|Tosh]], [[Owen Harper|Owen]], [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]]
enemy= |
|featuring= Michael Bellini
year= [[Earth]], [[Wales]], [[Cardiff]] |
|featuring2= Janet (Everything Changes){{!}}Janet
writer= [[David Llewellyn]]|
|enemy= [[Vondrax]], [[Kenneth Valentine]]
publisher= [[BBC Books]] |
|setting= [[Cardiff]], [[2008]]  
release date= March [[2008]] |
|writer= David Llewellyn
format= Hardcover Book, 251 Pages |
|publisher= BBC Books  
isbn= ISBN 978-1-846-07438-7 |
|release date= 6 March 2008
previous story= |
|format= Hardcover Book, 256 Pages  
next story= [[The Twilight Streets]]}}
|isbn= ISBN 978-1-84607-438-7  
|prev= Something in the Water (novel)
|next= The Twilight Streets (novel)
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'''''Trace Memory''''' was the fifth release in the [[BBC Torchwood novels|BBC ''Torchwood'' Novels]] series.


==Publisher's Summary==
== Publisher's summary ==
''to be added''
Tiger Bay, [[Cardiff]], [[1953]]. A mysterious crate is brought into the docks on a [[Scandinavia]]n cargo ship. Its destination: the [[Torchwood Institute]]. As the crate is offloaded by a group of local dockers, it explodes, killing all but one of them, a young Butetown lad called Michael Bellini.
 
Fifty-five years later, a radioactive source somewhere inside the Hub leads [[Torchwood 3|Torchwood]] to discover the same [[Michael Bellini]], still young and dressed in his [[1950s]] clothes, cowering in the vaults. They soon realise that each has encountered Michael before — as a child in Osaka, as a junior doctor, as a young police constable, as a new recruit to Torchwood One. But it's Jack who remembers him best of all.
 
Michael's involuntary time-travelling has something to do with a radiation-charged relic held inside the crate. And the Men in Bowler Hats are coming to get it back.
 
Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper, Owen Harper, Toshiko Sato and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles, Burn Gorman, Naoki Mori and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series created by Russell T Davies for BBC Television.


==Characters==
== Plot ==
''to be added''
''to be added''


==References==
== Characters ==
A reference is made to the ''[[Out_of_Time | Sky Gypsy]]
* [[Jack Harkness]]
* [[Gwen Cooper]]
* [[Owen Harper]]
* [[Toshiko Sato]]
* [[Ianto Jones]]
* [[Michael Bellini]]
* [[Maggie Jenkins]]
* [[Toshiko Sato's father]]
* [[Toshiko Sato's mother]]
* [[Toshiko Sato's grandmother]]
* [[Darren Lucas]]
* [[Rhodri (Trace Memory)|Rhodri]]
* [[Frank (Trace Memory)|Frank]]
* [[Wilf (Trace Memory)|Wilf]]
* [[Hassan (Trace Memory)|Hassan]]
* [[Andy Davidson]]
* Nurse [[Collins (Trace Memory)|Collins]]
* Nurse [[Margaret Gait]]
* Doctor [[Hutchins (Trace Memory)|Hutchins]]
* [[Pete (Trace Memory)|Pete]]
* Sergeant [[Rowlands (Trace Memory)|Rowlands]]
* [[Goth girl (Trace Memory)|Goth girl]]
* [[Lloyd (Trace Memory)|Lloyd]]
* [[Kirsty (Trace Memory)|Kirsty]]
* Doctor [[Bala (Trace Memory)|Bala]]
* [[Darren Lucas]]
* [[Lisa Hallett]]
* [[Bev Stanley]]
* [[Lucy (Trace Memory)|Lucy]]
* [[Charles Cromwell]]
* [[Kenneth Valentine]]
* [[Hugo Faulkner]]
* [[Linda Wells]]
* [[Josh Wells]]
* [[Martin (Trace Memory)|Martin]]
* [[Maria James]]
* [[Robert James]]
* [[Tatiana Rogozhin]]
* [[Yevgeny (Trace Memory)|Yevgeny]]
* [[Pavlov (Trace Memory)|Pavlov]]
* [[Mikhail (Trace Memory)|Mikhail]]
* [[Janet (Everything Changes)|Janet]]


In separate flashback chapters, [[Gwen Cooper]] meets [[Andy Davidson]] for the first time  and [[Ianto Jones]] is at [[One_Canada_Square | Torchwood One]] with [[Lisa Hallett]].
== Worldbuilding ==
* Jack steals a copy of the [[William Shakespeare]] play ''[[Cardenio]]''.
* Jack mentions [[Clarke's Law]] to Toshiko.
* Rhys eats [[Marmite]].
* Ianto has been watching [[James Bond]] films. He has currently watched up to ''[[Goldfinger (film)|Goldfinger]]''.
* [[Torchwood One]] know that there is such thing as [[Father Christmas]], and he does live in [[Lapland]]. Torchwood serve to deal with his existence.
* [[Graham Evesham]] works for [[UNIT]].
* In [[1953]], [[Edgar Nelson-Stanley|Nelson-Stanley]] found a [[Vondraxian orb]].
* Lucy and Cromwell mention a Captain [[Turner (Trace Memory)|Turner]] as working for Torchwood Three.
* The [[KVI]] use a [[Hamilton's Sugar]] warehouse as a base in Cardiff.


==Notes==
== Notes ==
''to be added''
* This book is also available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store.


==Continuity==
== Continuity ==
Three past members of ''Torchwood'' are introduced in this novel. ''Charles Cromwell'' who worked for Torchwood between 1945 - 1975 (and was still active the same time ''[[Ianto Jones]]'' worked at ''Torchwood One''), ''Kenneth Valentine'' who was with Torchwood in 1953 but by 1967 had defected to the Soviet Union. Because of this all records of him were wiped. Thirdly, ''Lucy''. No more information apart from her name was given.
* Owen compares Michael to the passengers aboard the ''[[Sky Gypsy]]''. ([[TV]]: ''[[Out of Time (TV story)|Out of Time]]'')
* Eyewitness testimonies of parnormal activities and extraterriestrial visitors debunked by the [[Torchwood Institute]] include those relating to [[Albion Hospital]] in [[1941]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'' / ''[[The Doctor Dances (TV story)|The Doctor Dances]]'') [[Maiden's Point]] in [[1943]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'') [[Torchwood House|The Torchwood Estate]] in [[1879]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'') [[St Teilo's Hospital]] in [[1918]], ([[TV]]: ''[[To the Last Man (TV story)|To the Last Man]]'') [[Cardiff]] in [[1869]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'') and the [[Fairy|fairies]] of [[Roundstone Woods]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Small Worlds (TV story)|Small Worlds]]'')
* The [[quantum transducer]] is mentioned. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Machine (TV story)|Ghost Machine]]'')
* [[Edgar Nelson-Stanley|Nelson-Stanley]] is mentioned. ([[TV]]: ''[[Eye of the Gorgon (TV story)|Eye of the Gorgon]]'')
* Jack and Michael hide out in [[Shangri-La]] hotel, formerly Shangri-La holiday camp. ([[TV]]: ''[[Delta and the Bannermen (TV story)|Delta and the Bannermen]]'')
* Ianto states that the air mattress Michael sleeps on is one of the few items not trashed from their camping trip. ([[TV]]: ''[[Countrycide (TV story)|Countrycide]]'')
* [[Yvonne Hartman]] is mentioned in Ianto's flashback. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'' / ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
* Gwen remembers Jack talking about the [[Civil Service]], who also wore [[bowler hat]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Slow Decay (novel)|Slow Decay]]'')


==External Links==
== External links ==
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* {{Penguin|1075356/torchwood-trace-memory/}}
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[[Category:Stories set in 1941]]

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Trace Memory was the fifth release in the BBC Torchwood Novels series.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Tiger Bay, Cardiff, 1953. A mysterious crate is brought into the docks on a Scandinavian cargo ship. Its destination: the Torchwood Institute. As the crate is offloaded by a group of local dockers, it explodes, killing all but one of them, a young Butetown lad called Michael Bellini.

Fifty-five years later, a radioactive source somewhere inside the Hub leads Torchwood to discover the same Michael Bellini, still young and dressed in his 1950s clothes, cowering in the vaults. They soon realise that each has encountered Michael before — as a child in Osaka, as a junior doctor, as a young police constable, as a new recruit to Torchwood One. But it's Jack who remembers him best of all.

Michael's involuntary time-travelling has something to do with a radiation-charged relic held inside the crate. And the Men in Bowler Hats are coming to get it back.

Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper, Owen Harper, Toshiko Sato and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles, Burn Gorman, Naoki Mori and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series created by Russell T Davies for BBC Television.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • This book is also available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

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