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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...

I loved this latest entry in the Rivers of London series, with Detective Constable Peter Grant on the trail of a vengeful angel linked to th...

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...

The removals people said they'd be here between 8 and 8.30 this morning but arrived just after 7.30 while I was still drinking tea in be...

My review of Christopher Eccleston's autobiography will be published in Doctor Who Magazine #544 in just under four weeks' time....

Marianne Brocklehurst's diary Victorian Queens of Ancient Egypt , my fourth documentary for Radio 3's Sunday Feature will be b...

The Lord of Chaos and I had a brilliant short break in Liverpool, visiting relatives and seeing the sights. It helped that the weather was ...

Stalin Ate My Homework is a smart, funny and self-effacing autobiography by Alexei Sayle . It covers the years 1952 (when Sayle was born, o...

The Sagas of the Icelanders is a 780-page brick of a book, a selection of the best sagas from the newly translated and spangly complete col...

Mr and Mrs Brother-in-Law treated me to a trip to Jodrell Bank today, the whopping great radio-telescope which is a whole bucket of cool. I...

Busy writing up my talk for tomorrow evening in Greenwich on the use and abuse of science in Doctor Who . Meanwhile, m'colleague Mark Mo...

It has been a weekend of day-trips to far-flung places, when I should have been writing a script. After work on Friday we ventured north to ...

Took a stroll with the Dr and the Baldrick-in-law to enjoy Blackpool's unprecedented glimpse of Orb. The Dr and Baldrick-in-law. They ar...

Hello from grey, rainy Blackpool. I know, what a turn-up, I can hardly believe it myself. Last night, with the rain bashing the Velux window...

Having rattled through The Ghost , I’ve since rattled through The H-Bomb Girl by Stephen Baxter . I loved his The Time Ships (a sequel to T...

Who knew Liverpool has a spaceport ? It’s conveniently on the edge of the Mersey, looking out across to the Capital of Culture, nestling abo...

Last post on this subject, I promise. Went to Manchester yesterday to sign more copies of Dr Who and the Pirate Loop. It was more exclusive ...

Just back from a weekend in Sheffield with family to find plenty of actual and potential offers of that there scribbling in by inbox. Which ...

Up early Saturday to get the train to Manchester. Read the first quarter of Nobody’s Children (first draft), which is really rather good. ...