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The new issue of medical journal the Lancet Psychiatry includes a review by me: " Astounding by Alec Nevala-Lee is the story of t...

Yesterday, I attended Conan Doyle and London , a one-day symposium organised by the Institute of English Studies and linked to the forthcom...

After Case Histories  comes One Good Turn , which brings former soldier, cop and private detective Jackson Brodie out of retirement, ruin...

Helen Lewis has written a very good overview in The Atlantic  of Samira Ahmed's case against the BBC over pay discrimination . It inclu...

Out tomorrow, the new issue of Doctor Who Magazine names the writers and directors of next year's TV series, and details the results...

Episode 86 of the Galactic Yo-Yo podcast features an interview with me talking about writing Doctor Who books and audios, and confessin...

A few months after reading The Tombs of Atuan , I'm back in Earthsea for a third instalment. It's been "seventeen years, or ...

Around the childcare, the Dr and I had turns this week to stand in solidarity with Samira Ahmed taking the BBC to tribunal over unequal p...

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 ...