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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...

I'm ploughing on with my  episode guide to the BBC children's serial Garry Halliday (1959-62) , and ahead of an entry there on the f...

Bestselling author Athena Liu asks her friend June Hayward to look over a manuscript she has written using an old, manual typewriter - the o...

“The museum is a powerful and extraordinarily malleable cultural sorting house. [Museums] are places for demonstrating that the West is best...

"The frank, uncensored story of what really happens in the making of a super-film," promises the back-cover blurb on Roger Moore a...

Having read Michael Bartholomew's biography of HV Morton , I'm now on to Morton himself. HV Morton's London is a collection of t...

This is a very good biography of a very successful writer and pretty awful human being. Michael Bartholomew brilliantly teases out the real ...

The winner of the 2020 Clarke Award for best science-fiction novel of the year is a sprawling epic, charting the lives of multiple generati...

I’m struggling a bit with prose for grown-ups, so over the last month worked my way through The Adventures of Tintin , an eight-volume box-s...

This is the second of 12 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation recommended to me. The first one was 1.13 Datalore . We begin 2.9 ...

More than a decade ago, I was in the audience to see my clever friend Farah Mendlesohn interview Iain Banks . In preparation, Farah had r...

This, the first in a series of acclaimed young adult novels, is set in a segregated world very like our own but where white people are a...

Astounding is extraordinary, a rich, incisive and constantly shocking history of the science-fiction magazine of the same name, and through...

This book of 21 essays is, in the words of the editor's note, "a document of what it means to be a person of colour now." ...