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My friend Paul Spragg died on 8 May. His brother Nick and best friend Tom have written beautifully about what a lovely, funny, hard-wor...

The nice people at Sci-Fi London have announced the winners of this year's 48 hour challenges to make films and tell stories . For ea...

Unleashed on the world tomorrow is a new book I've written - Top Trumps: Space , published by Puffin . Follow the link for example pa...

Waaah! I have been a bit busy lately, scribbling lots of things all at once (and editing and producing and interviewing and advising and ju...

Another delightful murder mystery starring Lord Peter Wimsey. Like Clouds of Witness , the story is about getting someone off  a charge o...

Those splendid fellows at Big Finish are having a sale this weekend: buy all nine hours of my sci-fi series Graceless for just £25 . AMA...

"Please enjoy this book and, most important, enjoy the movie. I have no doubt that there will be more." Dino De Laurentiis, &...

“Agatha Christie remained inwardly detached from archaeology. She relished the archaeological life in remote country and made good use ...

"Foreigners nearly always wish to simplify the Middle East, Agnes. They cannot tolerate to feel ignorant long enough to understand ...

I really didn't like The Shining Girls   at first. It's a thriller about a psychopath in Chicago who hunts down a series of women...

Graceless - the science-fiction series I created and wrote - is back on BBC Radio 4 Extra this week . The first episode was broadcast ...

News from our masters at Big Finish : A big thank you to everyone who has bought Big Finish's debut short film Cleaning Up , starri...

While researching some daftness for  Horrible Histories Magazine , I read up on Franciscan monk and philosopher Roger Bacon (c. 1214-129...

The splendid fellows at Big Finish have put some new stuff on their website. You can listen to Simon Robinson's striking trailer for my...

It seems thoroughly unBritish to nominate myself for an award, or to impose myself upon you by asking for your help. But, if you happen to ...

I adored Clouds of Witness , my first meeting with Lord Peter Wimsey , the noble detective created by Dorothy L Sayers. It's brimming w...

The splendid new issue of Doctor Who Adventures  (#337, 15 January 2014) features a history of the Cybermen, an Ice Warrior poster and a co...

First a review of The House of Silk , and then some other items of Sherlockian interest... The  House of Silk  by Anthony Horowitz is a t...

Yesterday's Inside Science  on Radio 4 interviewed Professor Robert Nemiroff from Michigan Tech University about his much reported se...

Wizard , the short film I wrote, will be screened at the BFI on Saturday 25 January, as part of the LOCO London Comedy Film Festival 2014 ....