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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...

Pedro, by Nimbos This morning, we took turns to say goodbye to Pedro, our grumpy, once-chonky cat, before the Dr escorted him away on one la...

A couple of long car journeys have been greatly aided by this pair of excellent books written by Louie Stowell and read by Ben Willbond. The...

This is another excellent, creepy novel by the author of Boy in the Tower . Ana feigns sickness to get out of going to school, where she'...

This largely autobiographical novel was first published in 1847, the same year that Anne's sisters published the better known  Jane Eyre...

My brother got me this as house-warming present. What feels an age ago but was really at New Year, he and I tramped bits of Alderley Edge de...

This is the third of 12 episodes of Star Trek: the Next Generation recommended to me. First there was 1.13 Datalore , then 2.9 The Measure...

Ten year-old Aniyah is a star hunter, an astronomer, thrilled by the discovery of a new star in the night sky. But she thinks the star is...

The new issue of Lancet Psychiatry (January 2020) features my review of the Wellcome Collection's current exhibition, "Play Well...

I've had a busy few weeks - as a guest at the Hastings Literary Festival, working through notes on various things and researching and...

This beautifully packaged anthology summarises 11 Christmas lectures from the Royal Institution covering aspects of natural history. The ...

The new issue of TV Years magazine , from the makers of TV Choice , is devoted to classic children's television. I've written a f...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine marks my debut as compiler of the "Time Team" - the regular feature in which a group of 2...

I learned about this book in December when the author was a guest on the (brilliant) 1800 Seconds on Autism podcast , and was particular...

This is brilliant. In 1950, Juliet Armstrong is a BBC radio producer working in Schools (the department always has a capital S). But ten ...

After its exclusive media launch at the  South London Comic & Zine Fair this afternoon, here is the new Bibbly-Bob the Seal comic ...

Recording here each book I finish reading, I've skipped the stuff read to my children because the Dr does shifts with bedtime books s...

Yesterday, the Lord of Chaos and I took a turn on the London Eye to help his cousin celebrate her birthday. I'd not been on the Eye si...

It has been an eventful week, with the Dr giving birth to a beautiful baby girl who, online, we'll call Lady Vader. Given our history...

To mark 10 glorious years of kids' magazine Doctor Who Adventures , my former boss Paul Lang has written a magnificent celebration of i...