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Michael Pickwoad I was very sad to hear of the death of Michael Pickwoad,  Doctor Who 's brilliant production designer between 2010...

A couple of years ago, I praised a jaw-dropping exhibition of images of the Solar System which were on temporary display at the Natural H...

The online new issue of medical journal The Lancet Psychiatry (vol 5, iss 8, August 2018) features "Dickens and the dinosaurs" ...

I've been working for a while on the partwork  Doctor Who Figurine Collection , my job to write 1,200 words on the costumes of particu...

Last week, I visited the West Park Museum in Macclesfield as research for my forthcoming Radio 3 documentary, “Victorian Queens of Ancient...

In shops now, The World of Doctor Who is the latest - and 50th - special edition of Doctor Who Magazine , and examines the past, present...

The friend I borrowed this from got it for Christmas in 2016, and was 33 pages in when news arrived that Carrie Fisher had died. My frien...

This brilliant novel had me hooked from its first pages - in which a school is attacked by a huge spaceship. In the heart of the maelstro...

BBC Books have announced an exciting new volume,  Doctor Who: The Women Who Lived , to be published in September. Written by Christel D...

As well as handing out copies of our new Bibbly-Bob comic , I bought a bunch of things from the stalls at last weekend's South London C...

After its exclusive media launch at the  South London Comic & Zine Fair this afternoon, here is the new Bibbly-Bob the Seal comic ...

I really enjoyed this 90-page science-fiction novella about a girl who runs away from home to go to space university, when her ship is at...

Our next month is Doctor Who - The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles , with this tremendous cover by Tom Webster: I've written one of th...

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." ...

I was the guest / breakfast of Kahmeela and Marcella on episode 77 of the Revisiting Sunnydale podcast , for a lively natter about my bo...

This new graphic novel about the Apollo 11 Moon landing is illustrated by Mike Collins who a) shares his name with the Command Module pi...

On 18 July 2017, Lord Horam gave a speech in the House of Lords during a debate on the EUC report Brexit: Trade in Goods . At one point (...

Out now, the super splendid  Essential Doctor Who - Adventures in the Future (from the makers of Doctor Who Magazine ) has a couple of t...

Recording here each book I finish reading, I've skipped the stuff read to my children because the Dr does shifts with bedtime books s...