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This wasn't what I expected. As a classic of science-fiction, I thought it would be engineer-heroes conquering the frontier and debat...

Doctor Who Magazine 2020 Yearbook Doctor Who Magazine 's 2020 Yearbook is now out, with exclusive access to the cast and crew of th...

The new issue of Lancet Psychiatry (January 2020) features my review of the Wellcome Collection's current exhibition, "Play Well...

The new issue of  Doctor Who Magazine is out today, with plenty of exciting stuff about the forthcoming new series. I've also resea...

This fascinating new book on the medical context of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula is by Fiona Subotsky - a retired professor of p...

Reign of the Robots , the Dan Dare story by Frank Hampson for Eagle comic that I adapted for audio, will be broadcast on Radio 4 Extra late...

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...