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In the year 3392, an automated grading machine decides that seven year-old Grame is fit to be no more than a "mechanical repetitive wor...

“In the early spring of nineteen sixty-three, there was a rumour — unconfirmed and a little scandalous — that George Smiley might almost be ...

George Markstein (1926  —  but perhaps 1929  —  to 1987) was a journalist and writer, probably best known as script editor of the first 13 e...

“Informed public opinion is infectious, even to governments.” (p. 149) Thursday, 30 July 1964 saw publication of two paperback “Penguin Spec...

LXXI The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all they ...

This handsome little hardback is an arresting read. The strange, tactile quality of Aliya Whiteley's fiction has long entranced me (see ...

I've been listening to this, the fourth of Mick Herron's Slow Horses books, a little behind the run of the TV version and it's b...

First published in 1998, this is an oral history of repertory theatre - which is where the same group of actors star in play after play, usu...

The latest issue of the official  Doctor Who Magazine is out now, and very excitingly comes with an exclusive Target novelisation of the 19...

This is the third of the, to date, eight Slough House novels (following Slow Horses and Dead Lions ). Again, the TV version - which I saw f...

This is a review of a comic science-fiction novel from 1968, sort of John Wyndham done as sitcom. Yet in poking fun at the mores and anxieti...

It seems like only a week since my last book was out. But today sees publication of Doctor Who - The Time-Travelling Almanac , billed as the...

Out today, The Story of the Solar System - A Visual Journey , is a sumptuous big book of space infographics written by Dr Maggie Aderin-Poco...