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“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 ...

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...

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...

Someone is meddling with time. That means that when an Aztec warrior ventures into a long abandoned Exxilon spaceship, he isn't instant...

Prompted by Richard Flanagan's Question 7 , I sought out this "science-fiction" anthology by the Hungarian physicist Leo Szila...

By fun coincidence, I received a copy of this book - recommended to me by various friends since publication last year - two days after happe...

Richard Flanagan won the Booker Prize in 2014 for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North , which was in part based on his father's ...