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Over a series of long drives and shorter washings-up, I've worked my way through this 35+ hour reading of Our Mutual Friend , the novel ...

On Sunday, 23 July 1963, BBC staff director Waris Hussein met for the first time with Verity Lambert, the newly appointed producer of a seri...

It's taken some weeks to get through this 16-hour reading of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall , which I last read while at university a mille...

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

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'm a guest on a special episode of comedian Edy Hurst's podcast devoted to The War of the Worlds , nattering about the life of HG W...

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...

I've submitted a review of this for publication elsewhere, but Professor Roger Luckhurst (who I know) has produced a fascinating histor...

In 1896, Holmes and Watson are called in to investigate the disappearance of Thomas Kellway from a locked room with a window in the door,...

"This Sherlock Homes story was published in 1890 so contains actions and attitudes reflective of the Victorian era in which it was ...

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

This fascinating new book on the medical context of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula is by Fiona Subotsky - a retired professor of p...

Yesterday, I attended Conan Doyle and London , a one-day symposium organised by the Institute of English Studies and linked to the forthcom...

The superb new issue of Doctor Who Magazine is out tomorrow and devoted to Third Doctor actor Jon Pertwee, who was born 100 years ago. T...

Seurat and the Science of Painting by William Innes Homer (1964) At the turn of the 20th century, work by Max Planck on the odd pro...

Edward Lear - Egyptian Sketches by Jenny Gaschke Having finished the biography of Lear , I had another look at this collection publish...

“Lear’s great poems and songs are not about his life – they float free. But their gaiety and sadness feel even keener when set against the...