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Shirley Jackson's 1954 novel The Bird's Nest is extraordinary. Elizabeth Richmond works in a museum, the wall beside her desk remov...

I was interviewed by Mackenzie Flohr about The Women Who Lived and other Doctor Who things I have written . I'll also be a guest at W...

The nice people at Doctor Who Magazine have published The Story of Doctor Who , a shiny, comprehensive guide to the 55-year history of t...

Straight on from her Dark Tales , I've ploughed through Shirley Jackson's final (and greatest, says the back cover) novel, We Hav...

I've read loads since completing Space Odyssey - chapters of various mates' works in progress and all sorts of material for work, ...

Out today, issue 1326 of the Big Issue features an exclusive interview with Jodie Whittaker about being the new Doctor Who . Lurking alon...

Doctor Who Magazine #530 is now available in shops and online. It includes my interview with musician Christian Erickson about how 1984 ...

At 9.15 pm tonight, Radio 3 are repeating a documentary presented by Samira Ahmed and which I produced, John Ruskin's Eurythmic Girl...

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...