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The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine marks my debut as compiler of the "Time Team" - the regular feature in which a group of 2...

Seurat and the Science of Painting by William Innes Homer (1964) At the turn of the 20th century, work by Max Planck on the odd pro...

The June 2019 issue of medical journal the Lancet Psychiatry includes my review of the film Out of Blue . "Detective Mike Hoolihan...

A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since my holiday in Salonica in January 2011  where I read my friend Ben Aaronovitch's Riv...

I'm reviewing this new book elsewhere so can't go into too much detail here, but this has been a fascinating read. Storr uses lot...

Robert Allsopp's first work on Doctor Who was to make the question mark handle for Sylvester McCoy's umbrella in 1987. He's w...

I learned about this book in December when the author was a guest on the (brilliant) 1800 Seconds on Autism podcast , and was particular...

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)...