The Twilight Streets (novel)

The Twilight Streets
Main character(s):	Jack, Gwen, Tosh, Owen, Ianto
Featuring:	Idris Hopper, Rhys Williams
Main enemy:	Pwccm; The Dark; Cafard Manger
Main setting:	Cardiff, August 2008
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Books
Writer:	Gary Russell
Release details
Release number:	6
Release date:	6 March 2008
Format:	Hardcover Book, 256 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 1-84607-439-8
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The Twilight Streets was the sixth release in the BBC Torchwood Novels series.

Publisher's summary

It's the start of a Cardiff autumn - the days are getting shorter, the dark evenings settling in. There's a part of Cardiff that no one goes to much. No crime, no murders, just they stay away. A collection of old rundown houses and gloomy streets. Something's not quite right there, something is off-kilter. Except now, the Council are renovating the area. And a new company have been employed to do this. And look: they're going to organise street parties to show off the gentrified area. Clown and face-painters for the kids, street magicians for the adults. None of this is Torchwood's problem. Except that Tosh recognises the man sponsoring the street parties when she's passing one day: Bilis Manger!

Plot

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Characters

• Captain Jack Harkness
• Gwen Cooper
• Toshiko Sato
• Owen Harper
• Ianto Jones
• Bilis Manger
• Idris Hopper
• Rhys Williams
• Dr Tilda Brennan
• Llinos King
• Greg Bishop
• Rhydian
• Eric Lawson
• Cafard Manger
• Gideon Tarry

Alternate timeline

• Geraint Cooper
• Prime Minister

Worldbuilding

• Alan Turing made a Rift Predictor for Torchwood Three called The Bronze Goddess.
• Jack reflects that an ancestor of his must be walking about on Earth right now - then realises he's not actually sure if he's descended from humans.
• Jack once met a Hoix in the Sidings.
• Charlie Gaskell's team is stated to have first discovered and used Torchwood's alien cryo-tech in 1906.
• Silas Morgan died during the Tretarri fire.

Notes

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

Continuity

• The main story takes place between TV: Meat and TV: Reset (Rhys is aware of Torchwood and Owen is alive), although the featured alternate timeline takes place after TV: Reset as Owen is dead and Gwen and Rhys are married.
• The alternate future Rhys and Gwen make reference to his saving her life with the singularity scalpel. (TV: Something Borrowed)
• In the alternate timeline, Gwen and Rhys have a son whom they name Jack Ianto Geraint Williams, after Jack Harkness, Ianto Jones, and Gwen's father Geraint. In the real timeline, they will have a daughter, Anwen. (TV: The New World)
• Idris Hopper, Margaret Blaine's secretary in TV: Boom Town is a major character in this novel.
• The main story takes place circa August 2008. Idris and Jack's conversation establishes that it has been 22 months since they last met, and that their last meeting was a month after TV: Boom Town. Boom Town took place circa September 2006, being six months after TV: World War Three.
• Toshiko Sato was responsible for The Toaster Incident, (TV: Exit Wounds) plus Tosh and UNIT "...are not mates". (TV: Fragments)
• An explanation is given that during the events of TV: Boom Town, Captain Jack confined the team to the Hub to stop them meeting his past self and contaminating his timeline.
• Rhys Williams and Gwen Cooper are making the final plans for their wedding. (TV: Something Borrowed)
• The phrase Turn Left (TV: Turn Left) is used frequently to describe the events leading to an alternate future.
• Bilis Manger predicts Owen's death on a couple of occasions, accompanied by a spectral image of the gun that kills him. (TV: Reset)
• Bilis Manger also appears to predict Ianto's death (TV: Children of Earth: Day Four) while also hinting something about him by asking has anyone ever known who and what he really was.
• Bilis Manger states that Jack's evil is Abaddon's good. This is similar to a statement made by Sutekh in TV: Pyramids of Mars.
• Ianto mentions the last time Jack disappeared. Jack counters this by saying the team got a nice trip to Tibet out of it. (TV: The Sound of Drums)

External links

• Official The Twilight Streets page at Penguin Books
• The Twilight Streets at the Doctor Who Reference Guide