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First published in 2014, this is a collection of eight longish short stories — each comprising more than 50 pages. It’s the first Aickman I’...

View from our hotel Back from a nice week in hot, sunny Athens. As the Dr said, it's been fascinating to see what the kids made of the p...

Bit late on this as I've been away, but the new issue of Doctor Who Magazine boasts an extraordinary cover by Oliver Arkinstall-Jones, ...

"This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of all of them. A war does not ignore half the people whose lives it t...

This account of the final year of the Trojan war is largely from the perspective of princess-turned-slave Briseis, although there are als...

This is a timely publication of two lectures by Mary Beard, one on "The Public Voice of Women" and the efforts to silence them,...

"By classical times the Theseus legend ... had so fabulous a garnish that it has sometimes been dismissed as pure fairy-tale, or, aft...

On 10 January, 49 BC, Julius Caesar marched his army south over a small river called the Rubicon - and the world changed. It was not the si...

Thanks to lovely Abebooks , I'm now the proud owner of a battered paperback of Carl Sagan's Cosmos and a battered hardback (withou...

Here's the introduction I wrote to the book of academic papers, The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who (2010) - available as a paper...

Here, for your entertainment and delight, is my first outline for what became the Doctor Who book The Slitheen Excursion . Big boss Justin ...

“Archaeologist and Man of Action” says the back cover of Still Digging , the 1955 autobiography by archaeologist, soldier and “acclaimed Tel...

Had a nice couple of days' escape from London before our building work starts in earnest. Went to Ely for the afternoon, mooched round ...

Spent a long weekend in Thessaloniki (also known as Salonica) in northern Greece with the Dr and my parents. Traipsed through a fair few mus...