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This is great fun - a Rivers of London novella set in New York in the Jazz Age, narrated by the woosterish Augustus Berrycloth-Young. Gussi...

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

The new issue of the official Doctor Who Magazine is out today. Having hogged loads of the last issue , this time I've contributed one ...

I really enjoyed this wide-ranging ramble through Bond, the Beatles and the British psyche. It charts the interweaving histories of the Fabs...

This remarkable, detailed and insightful biography is a great joy, and in the audiobook version you get the author's impressions of vari...

I've once again been a guest on Cinema Limbo , the podcast that picks over odd, old films. In this case, it's Give My Regards to Bro...

There is quite a lot of me in the new issue of Doctor Who Magazine : FIRST BASE sees clever Gav Rymill recreate the studio sets of another m...

In the midst of yesterday's deluge, a brave postman swam our street to deliver Life Drawing: A Life Under Lights , the autobiography ...

Doctor Who Magazine #530 is now available in shops and online. It includes my interview with musician Christian Erickson about how 1984 ...

Oops. I'd meant to post some things - about books I've been reading and nonsense in my head - but have been Busy. And now another...

The t'rific Tom Saunders has made this tremendous opening title sequence for my science-fiction series, Graceless . As the video ...

Here, hear the amazing trailer for Graceless IV which is out later this month. The writing is by me but the extraordinary song is the work...

In shops today is a splendid new special edition of Doctor Who Magazine , devoted to the music of Doctor Who . It boasts comprehensive ...

Last month in Manchester, the Dr and I stumbled across what might be the most 80s piece of vinyl ever pressed. Duran Duran. Bauhaus and Rene...

Three podcasts on which I witter: Bad Wilf Me and Joseph Lidster on writing, recorded 5 March 2011. Radio Free Skaro Me and brother/boss Tom...

Eddie Robson kindly bought me Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald , a history of the Beatles song by song. This was after he'd seen ...

To the NFT last night for the annual Missing Believed Wiped – an evening of odd bits of old telly that have found their way back to the arc...

Went to see Mother Courage and her Children at the National last night, which is not – as I'd hoped – a nursery rhyme with a happy endi...

I don't usually write about music. The whole point of music is that it's different from writing. Like a joke, the moment you start e...

To the Roundhouse last night for a gig by the Radiophonic Workshop , formerly of the BBC. The tone of the night was set by the A5 flyer: “To...