Biography
Aaronovitch is the son of the late economist and Communist Sam Aaronovitch, and the younger brother of actor Owen Aaronovitch and British journalist David Aaronovitch.
As well as writing the Doctor Who serials Remembrance of the Daleks and Battlefield, he has also written three spin-off novels in the Virgin Publishing New Adventures range, a new Bernice Summerfield novel and several short stories for Big Finish Productions. He created the ongoing Doctor Who character Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart, who has never appeared in the television series, but has appeared in various spin-offs.
He currently lives in Wimbledon and is working on a series of urban fantasy police procedurals the first of which, Rivers of London, has achieved considerable success.
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