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Last week I hosted an event for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain with the last two winners of our Best First Novel Award - Aamina Ah...

The latest Sirens of Audio video podcast features me being grilled about my 2012  Doctor Who audio story The Anachronauts , which starred Je...

On Saturday, I spoke to Steven and Chris from Radio Free Skaro about my research into the life of David Whitaker . I'd just given my tal...

I've had a brilliant long weekend in Los Angeles as a guest at the Gallifrey One convention, catching up with lots of old pals, meeting ...

Subtitled "Britain and the Crisis of Civilisation, 1919-1939", this is a dense and detailed history of the interwar period focused...

This massive history of crime fiction and its creators, from William Godwin to PD James, is brilliant, rich and absorbing. It's especial...

The new issue of  Doctor Who Magazine features another "Sufficient Data" infographic from me and Ben Morris, this time with a Val...

Having so admired Hermione Lee's biography of Penelope Fitzgerald , I was keen to hear - and thieve from - her insights more generally o...

A young woman attacked and left for dead is found by four young students on their way home from a party. When she dies, suspicion falls on t...

On Monday night I attended the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Awards 2023 , having run the team behind the First Novel Award. Huge congratu...

The lovely lot at Ten Acre Films have officially announced my forthcoming biography of David Whitaker, the original story editor of Doctor ...

The new issue of the official Doctor Who Magazine boasts an interview with Millie Gibson, who'll be joining the series as companion Rub...

I first read Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983) and its sequel, Which Lie Did I Tell?  (2000), around the time I went freelance in 2002, ...

I've once again been a guest on Cinema Limbo , the podcast that picks over odd, old films. In this case, it's Give My Regards to Bro...

The latest edition of the free Big Finish podcast includes a fair bit on my forthcoming Blake's 7 audio story, No Name . At 39:25 ther...

Last night, Radio 3's Free Thinking was on the subject of landladies . The guests included magnificent Louise Jameson, and at 13.40 conv...

The Writers' Guild of Great Britain has announced its 2023 awards shortlist , the winners to be announced at a ceremony on 16 January. A...

Charles Hawtrey of the Carry On films had an alcoholic cat. It was, “pampered with port-soaked sugar lumps, its bread and butter sprinkled ...

It's been a busy few months running the First Novel Award for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain - the shortlist to be announced sh...

This afternoon, I had a long chat with Nathan Price on his Countdown to the Moon project , discussing Artemis, the TV coverage of Apollo and...