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This account of the final year of the Trojan war is largely from the perspective of princess-turned-slave Briseis, although there are als...

Tom Webster's exhilarating cover to Doctor Who audio box-set  Susan's War has now been revealed, along with the blurb for my sto...

Will Parry runs away from home and then into another world, where he meets Lyra Silvertongue and seeks to help her. But soon they're ...

More than a decade ago, I was in the audience to see my clever friend Farah Mendlesohn interview Iain Banks . In preparation, Farah had r...

The third Jackson Brodie novel (after  Case Histories and One Good Turn ) is another compelling read, by turns warm and funny, then utte...

Issue 502 of Celestial Toyroom , the journal of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society , features a big interview with the authors of variou...

Subtitled, "Gossip, Power and How Politics Really Works", this is an insightful and often funny insider's account of the in...

In 1896, Holmes and Watson are called in to investigate the disappearance of Thomas Kellway from a locked room with a window in the door,...

"This Sherlock Homes story was published in 1890 so contains actions and attitudes reflective of the Victorian era in which it was ...

The middle chapter of The Book of Dust is thrilling, rich and downright weird. Since reading volume one - La Belle Sauvage - I've go...

Yesterday, the splendid lot at Big Finish announced Susan's War - a box-set of audio adventures in which we find out what Doctor Who&...

The February issue of the Lancet Psychiatry includes my  "Once bitten", my review of the book Dracula for Doctors by Fiona Sub...

Ten year-old Aniyah is a star hunter, an astronomer, thrilled by the discovery of a new star in the night sky. But she thinks the star is...

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...