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I'm afraid that this odd but acclaimed novel about a grieving father (namely, Abraham Lincoln) left me a bit cold. All sorts of thi...

I’ve had this extraordinary book on the stack of books by my bed for a while. It won the Clarke Award last year, and the Pulitzer Prize f...

Later this year there will be a thrilling range of releases to mark two decades of Bernice Summerfield's audio adventures - includin...

My new infographics book, Slayer Stats , marks 21 years of the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer with all the graphics-based data a slave...

Last week, I ran a workshop for the Hastings Writers' Group on writing science fiction, my brief that this was a bunch of enthusiast...

It's British Science Week and tomorrow I'll be talking at the Bath Taps into Science festival on the scientific secrets of Doctor...

This is a novel of yearning. Judith Earle is an only child, a teenager living a lonely life in a nice house in the Thames Valley. She rec...

Out now,  The Court Jester is the latest volume of The Wife in Space series by Neil & Sue Perryman, in which they watch all of Doctor...

"I, who was taught from the cradle to deny, deny and deny again - taught by the very Service that is seeking to drag a confession out...

This is a timely publication of two lectures by Mary Beard, one on "The Public Voice of Women" and the efforts to silence them,...

This book is a delight, a breezy yet wide-ranging history of humanity's efforts to leave Earth, plus what the near future might hold....

Last summer, then big chief of Doctor Who , Steven Moffat, explained to me his inspiration for the most successful of his monsters, the We...

A Game Without Rules  (2017) continues the beguiling story begun in Geis - A Matter of Life and Death (2016), the extraordinary, beautiful ...

This life of SOE agent "Christine Granville" - born  Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek in Poland in 1908 - took a while to get in ...

This morning, the Dr and I took our poorly, frail cat Shaggy to the vet one last time, where he was quietly put to sleep. It was quick. I...

The Doctor Who Magazine Yearbook 2018 is out in shops now. Among its myriad delights are some things I did the typing on: WET LOOK A...

On Christmas Day, I was the guest of Jordan Zakarin and Emily Gaudette on Syfy Wire's podcast The Fandom Files , chatting about my Doct...

I was entranced by Moonglow , the novel by Michael Chabon in which he supposedly recounts his own grandfather's life. It's a gent...

"Me and my brain" is a piece I've written about 1983 comedy The Man with Two Brains , and the history of brain transplants...

Earlier this year, the Dr took me to stay at Grim's Dyke house – now a hotel – in Harrow Weald, which was used as a location in episod...