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It's taken some weeks to get through this 16-hour reading of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall , which I last read while at university a mille...

Big Finish have released the cover and blurb for  Allies and Enemies , the trilogy of Blake's 7 audio plays out this December that incl...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine features Sacha Dhawan on the cover as the Master, part of the 20-page preview of next month's epic...

Bit late on this as I've been away, but the new issue of Doctor Who Magazine boasts an extraordinary cover by Oliver Arkinstall-Jones, ...

A couple of long car journeys have been greatly aided by this pair of excellent books written by Louie Stowell and read by Ben Willbond. The...

Today, Matthew Sweet and I journeyed out to Chiswick to find the grave of David Whitaker (1928-80), original story editor of Doctor Who and ...

Yesterday at 3 pm the masters announced that the next Doctor Who Blu-ray set will be Season 2, the 39 episodes originally broadcast between ...

The new special edition of Doctor Who Magazine is devoted to the subject of guest stars in the series. I've written the entries on: Jea...

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 ...