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The death of maestro Terrance Dicks earlier this year prompted me to revisit this novelisation which I so loved as a kid. The TV story ...

The new issue of medical journal Lancet Psychiatry features my essay, "There's someone in my head but it's not me," on ...

Steven Schapansky of  Doctor Who podcast  Radio Free Skaro interviewed me for episode #712, "Stay on Target". I think that make...

Subtitled "The Octopus and the evolution of intelligent life," this is an absorbing mix of marine biology and philosophy, delvi...

Doctor Who Magazine 544 It's 40 years - and six days - since the first issue of Doctor Who Weekly , which is now Doctor Who Magazin...

Old Baggage , which I loved, is a prequel to this brilliant, comic novel about bad behaviour during the Second World War. We begin a li...

This smart, thrilling, brilliant new novel is about the women who are part of the astronaut programme in an alternate 1950s. History dive...

When Michelle Obama was supporting her husband's bid to be president of the USA, she used to tell her own story. Growing up in a &quo...

The new issue of medical journal The Lancet Psychiatry includes my review of The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr. You need to pay t...

My review of Christopher Eccleston's autobiography will be published in Doctor Who Magazine #544 in just under four weeks' time....

Doctor Who Magazine #543 is out in shops now, and features my interview with TV and radio presenter Stephen Cranford about his friendship ...

We begin with three distinct tragedies. First, in 1970, a three-year old disappears from her family home. Then, in 1994, a teenager with ...

My masters at BBC Books tweeted that they have received a first copy of Doctor Who - The Target Storybook : Artist Anthony Dry then p...

I've had a busy few weeks - as a guest at the Hastings Literary Festival, working through notes on various things and researching and...

Issue 28 of Post Öykü , published in May but I only just found out, includes my short story "The Artficial Bees" as "Yapa...

A month ago, while I was busy preparing a talk on utopia and dystopia for the Hastings Writers Group, Francis Wheen tweeted about  Agent ...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine is out in shops tomorrow. I've written the preview of the Season 23 Blu-ray box set, comprising...

Subtitled "A comedians' take on what makes us human", this is an intelligent ramble through the psychology of stand-up, and...

After the success of The Book of Dust , we tried Audible's version of Northern Lights for some long journeys - and were enraptured. ...

I have a story in Doctor Who: The Target Storybook , a new anthology to be published in October with an amazing cover by Anthony Dry. The...