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This is another excellent, creepy novel by the author of Boy in the Tower . Ana feigns sickness to get out of going to school, where she'...

Last year, when I asked what books by Penelope Fitzgerald I should read, a few people suggested this very good biography by Hermione Lee. Le...

The new issue of  Doctor Who Magazine boasts a cover by Anthony Lamb showing the Daleks as they blaze into action. There's lots of cove...

Big Finish has announced Aliens and Enemies , a new trilogy of Blake's 7 audio plays  due for release in November, and including one wri...

Lydia is a translator for Fitz, an alien cultural attache, but translating his psychically spoken thoughts into English has an effect like d...

Dr and me, about 2002 Twenty years ago this evening I took the Dr - though she was not then a Dr - to the pub to pitch a modest proposal: I ...

This remarkable book has long been out of print and copies sell for silly money, but it's well were tracking down. Alan Arnold was the p...

"In all his time in camps and prisons, Ivan Denisovich had lost the habit of concerning himself about the next day, or the next year, o...

A little over four years ago, I posted about A Game Without Rules , the second volume in the Geis trilogy of graphic novels written and illu...

Written in 1987 and published in 2017, this memoir is subtitled "The life and times of the creator of Doctor Who " - a claim Newma...

Ulysses Temper is a British soldier in Italy during the Second World War. There he befriends art historian Evelyn Skinner, and helps her res...

I've been enjoying the new Blu-ray release of the 1985 series of Doctor Who , adventures that made such an impression on me as kid. And ...

There's a lot going on in the world(s) of Doctor Who  at the minute. Production is under way on next year's 60th anniversary episode...

I've had the most amazing few days in Geneva as a guest of Ideas Square at CERN . It's the first time I've been out of the UK in...

The Wednesday Play was a prestigious anthology of (mostly) one-off plays, 182 of them broadcast by the BBC between 1964 and 1970. The serie...

I've a couple of features in the new Doctor Who Chronicles bookazine from the splendid lot that make Doctor Who Magazine . This one is d...

I bought this after the event in April to mark Nigel Kneale's centenary . Originally published in 2006 (when Kneale was still alive), th...

This mammoth, more-than-a-thousand-page account of broadcasting in the United Kingdom between 1955 and 1974 is the fifth and final volume in...