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This strange, beguiling novel tells many stories. Natalia is a doctor working in the Balkans in the aftermath of years of war. She learns...

Marianne Brocklehurst's diary Victorian Queens of Ancient Egypt , my fourth documentary for Radio 3's Sunday Feature will be b...

Here's an interview with me and Christel Dee about our book, Doctor Who - The Women Who Lived , conducted at Forbidden Planet in London...

Here's another video entry from our book, Doctor Who - The Women Who Lived , this time telling the story of the Doctor's friend Ros...

Edward Lear - Egyptian Sketches by Jenny Gaschke Having finished the biography of Lear , I had another look at this collection publish...

“Lear’s great poems and songs are not about his life – they float free. But their gaiety and sadness feel even keener when set against the...

That splendid lot at BBC Studios have produced this lovely video telling the story of Doctor Who's granddaughter, Susan Foreman. Th...

A few weeks ago, I was being old and nostalgic about the days of Doctor Who fanzines, especially the ones handed round in the pub I used to...

This is brilliant. In 1950, Juliet Armstrong is a BBC radio producer working in Schools (the department always has a capital S). But ten ...

A chum tweeted about Foundation this summer, prompting me finally to read it. It's a short, breezy book covering events over a hun...

The super new issue of Doctor Who Magazine is out tomorrow - but reaching subscribers already. Among the treats inside, I've intervi...

BBC Books (who, I should declare, publish stuff by me) sent me this fun new volume from TV's Dr Maggie, which she herself describes as,...

I will be a guest at Worthing Wormhole this Saturday, signing copies of Doctor Who: The Women Who Lived with co-author Christel Dee. C...

I first met Egyptologist Chris Naunton around the time he was working on his BBC Four documentary, The Man Who Discovered Egypt , which i...

Radio Times  spoke to me and science writer Giles Sparrow about antimatter and its potential use in powering spaceships as seen in last n...

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, ...