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One benefit of the Arthur C Clarke Award for best science-fiction novel of the year moving from April to July is that when the Dr asked wh...

Portrait by Nimbos Last night, Nimbos took me on an extra-special birthday treat - to the top of the BT Tower. As part of the London...

The superb new issue of Doctor Who Magazine is out tomorrow and devoted to Third Doctor actor Jon Pertwee, who was born 100 years ago. T...

Exciting! I have signed with a new agent, Steven Russell of Collective Talent, who will represent me in stuff I write for radio, TV and fil...

The Moon - A Celebration of Our Celestial Neighbour is a new book published by Royal Observatory Greenwich to accompany the Moon exhibiti...

I was given this 2017 book after chatting with a friend about Andrew O'Hagan's 60,000 word essay on the Grenfell fire , which bri...

The outrageously named Tobias Winter and Vanessa Sommer are two cops teamed up to investigate a peculiar death - the victim consumed by t...

Here's Tom Webster's amazing cover for Doctor Who - The Home Guard , an audio adventure I wrote that's out in November.  &...

The prologue to The Tombs of Atuan (1971) is barely a page long and utterly devastating. In a valley of blossoming apple trees, a mother ...

In the midst of yesterday's deluge, a brave postman swam our street to deliver Life Drawing: A Life Under Lights , the autobiography ...

To the horror of many wise friends, I've started this famous book several times but never finished it until now. It charts the early ...

The new issue of TV Years magazine , from the makers of TV Choice , is devoted to classic children's television. I've written a f...

Last week, a long car journey through half-term traffic was made infinitely less taxing by Michael Sheen's reading of the first volum...

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...