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The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition focuses on costume design - an often neglected aspect of a series that has otherwi...

Rowland Hill, inventor of the postage stamp , uncovered a parliamentary scandal: “For several years, at his own expense, Hill investigate...

This, the first in a series of acclaimed young adult novels, is set in a segregated world very like our own but where white people are a...

Doctor Who Magazine #537 is in shops from tomorrow, and includes my interview with Samuel Oatley, the actor who played terrifying teeth ...

I've an essay in  The Moon - A celebration of our celestial neighbour , a new book   edited by Melanie Vandenbrouck .  In July it wi...

This extraordinary, sprawling retelling of the Arthurian legend (especially Malory's version) was written between 1936 and 1942, in t...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine reveals a lost Dalek story from 1966 - in my feature on how Eric Laithwaite, professor of heavy ele...

Today, Samira Ahmed and I took over the twitter feed of the Trowelblazers , which celebrates pioneering women in archaeology, palaentolog...

I dared to ask a writer whose work I admire for advice about something I'm working on, and they recommended this book by Stephanie Pal...

Out today, Doctor Who Magazine issue #535 includes my interview with Feifei Ruan , the illustrator and visual storyteller who created th...

I knocked through this delicious new  Doctor Who novel very quickly, revelling in its fun and invention. It's based on a movie script...

Astounding is extraordinary, a rich, incisive and constantly shocking history of the science-fiction magazine of the same name, and through...

Excitingly, listings magazine Radio Times has chosen our documentary, Victorian Queens of Ancient Egypt (this Sunday, 6.45pm, Radio 3)...

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...