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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...

Have spent a lot of this last month researching bits and bobs, and have the following appeal to publishers and editors: All works of non-fic...

I am mostly spending this week interviewing people with connections to Doctor Who old and new, which is fun. I've also been interviewed ...

Those images you have been yearning to see... The cat has inspected every last detail but remains undecided on the whole business. But the n...

Since my last post , I've finished the first draft of the script and await notes from the Wise Folk. Of even less interest, I have paint...

Busy, busy, busy with a spec script that needs finishing, sorting out the flat to put it up for sale and scrabbling around for paid work. Bu...

Spent the weekend at the parents' and on Sunday morning my mum took me to Farley Mount . I've not been there since my early teens, b...

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me isn't exactly one of Roald Dahl's best, and confusingly the "Me" of the title is not the...

I've created a new companion for Doctor Who . Am also behind on a script, so must dash...

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...

As a belated birthday present, the Dr took me to Great Missenden today and the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre . It comprises three rooms...

Got all caught up in work and real life this past month, hence the lack of blogging. But I did get through some books. Mortal Engines by Phi...

Back from holiday and birthday shenanigans. Will write up our trip to Malta soon, and also some notes I made on The Gift by Lewis Hyde , whi...

Hello. Haven't died, at least not yet. But having been nail-bitingly desperate for work just a few weeks ago I'm now nail-bitingly b...

My two Blake's 7 plays are now available for free on the BBC's iPlayer - The Dust Run (6 days left to listen) and The Trial (7 day...

I've already blogged about Doctor No . I reread The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who - for which I wrote a foreword - in advance o...

Fun night at a leaving do last night, which included some earnest discussion of the work of Sean Connery. In 2003, I wrote a feature for Fil...

I'm reminded by the new issue of Doctor Who's Magazine that those who want a bit more Silurian action can get that fix for free with...

Word from the Masters that the Blake's 7 plays I wrote will be broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in a couple of weeks. "The Dust Run" ...

I've just received a copy of The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who , the book of 10 academic papers for which I scrawled an introduc...

I first read Doctor No when I was 11. I was all about James Bond at the time, thrilling at the new guy in the films and trying to work out...

Issue 15 of Vortex - the Big Finish magazine is now available online for free and includes me rabbiting on about how Graceless came about....

Having kept my head down a bit over the last few months, I am suddenly Mr Performing Seal. Had a fun day yesterday at Sci-Fi-London , trying...

I wrote about the two Roald Dahl books, The Magic Finger and Esio Trot , yesterday. Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun 1 has taken me...

Roald Dahl's The Magic Finger was one of my favourite books as a kid, mostly because I could read it in a single sitting. With illustra...