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Various people recommended this captivating novel in which I’ve been completely immersed. That’s fitting, because it’s all about the solace ...

Responding to an alien distress call, the Doctor and Ruby arrive in Estonia a few days before the Battle of the Ice on 5 April 1242 .  "...

"The number of nude photos needed for the Guardroom set has increased from three to six." (p. 647) This massive, detailed day-by-d...

“The museum is a powerful and extraordinarily malleable cultural sorting house. [Museums] are places for demonstrating that the West is best...

My book  David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television is one of 24 titles longlisted for best non-fiction (long) in this year...

This gripping, near-future political thriller is published by Gold SF, the newish imprint of Goldsmiths Press that aims to discover and publ...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine is the last under the editorship of Marcus Hearn, who has been so supportive of my efforts over the ye...

BBC Books has announced Whotopia - The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse will be published on 16 November. It's written by Jonathan Morri...

The new special edition of Doctor Who Magazine is devoted to the subject of guest stars in the series. I've written the entries on: Jea...

Lydia is a translator for Fitz, an alien cultural attache, but translating his psychically spoken thoughts into English has an effect like d...

Written in 1987 and published in 2017, this memoir is subtitled "The life and times of the creator of Doctor Who " - a claim Newma...

Oh what joy, a Rivers of London adventure we could share with the ten year-old as we drove down to my mum's for the Easter weekend. We t...

My last night out in London before lockdown in 2020 was to attend a signing for my chum Una's book Picard: The Last Best Hope , which ab...

I've script edited one of the three Blake's 7 audio stories that make up The Terra Nostra , a new set out in January 2022 from Big F...

Loved this deep dive into how exactly Doctor Who came back to TV in 2005, talking to many of those involved including Julie Gardner, Jane Tr...

I raced through this enthralling, vivid account of the Second World War, part of a new series written by Dominic Sandbrook for his eight yea...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine includes two things by me. First, the ingenious Gavin Rymill and Rhys Williams have reconstructed in...

Excitingly (and surreally), I was mentioned on today's edition of TV quiz show Countdown . Some 15 minutes in, host Nick Hewer asks Sami...

"Somehow, Stan always managed to present himself as a modest egomaniac - an art in itself." (p. 168) These words, from ex-Marvel w...

About once a month from 1991 until I left home, my grandfather would treat my family to dinner at the Golden House, a Chinese restaurant a s...