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The idea of mashing up detective fiction and sci-fi isn't new. Isaac Asimov did it in The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun in the 1950s ...

There's a masterpiece in blurbage on the back of this Penguin edition: "It was Diana Brackley who put the milk out for the cat; who...

The new issue of medical journal Lancet Psychiatry includes my essay, "Was it obvious to everyone else that I'd fallen for a lie?&q...

I'm currently in the midst of writing Sherlock Holmes - The Great War , an original novel for Titan Books. More details soon but here...

I've written about the 100 year-old movie  Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari in the August 2020 issue of the Lancet Psychiatry . You need to ...

The June issue of medical journal the Lancet Psychiatry includes my essay on David Storey's play Home . You need to pay to read the w...

The February issue of the Lancet Psychiatry includes my  "Once bitten", my review of the book Dracula for Doctors by Fiona Sub...

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

"Me and my brain" is a piece I've written about 1983 comedy The Man with Two Brains , and the history of brain transplants...

According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , William Hartnell – later, the first Doctor Who – trained as an actor at the Ital...

The new issue of medical journal the Lancet Psychiatry boasts my review of the film Mr Holmes starring Ian McKellen as an aged and decay...

"The people interested in the history of comic books are not the same as the people interested in the history of the polygraph. (And ...

The Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons in London is a fascinating place full of dead things in jars. The surgeon John Hunte...

The nice people at Sci-Fi London have announced the winners of this year's 48 hour challenges to make films and tell stories . For ea...

First a review of The House of Silk , and then some other items of Sherlockian interest... The  House of Silk  by Anthony Horowitz is a t...

The Dr has been much absorbed by the second most festive of her Christmas presents, Inconvenient People - Lunacy, Liberty and Mad-Doctors i...

Something different for my 900th post. I don't normally blog personal stuff, but the Dr and I want it out in the open that we're doi...

Had an appointment at that hot-bed of terrorism University College London this afternoon. Got taken for lunch in the Senior Common Room - b...

"People are too often terrible advertisements for their own beliefs." Derren Brown, Tricks of the Mind , p. 357. The Dr took me to...

Blood and Guts – A History of Surgery is a fascinating, gruesome, layman-friendly book, packed with anecdotes and horror stories. Author Ri...