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The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine features my interview with Devante Fleming, one of the floor runners currently working on Doctor Who ....

David Whitaker in Australia, early 1970s On 18 April 1928, 95 years ago today, David Arthur Whitaker was born in Knebworth. In 1963, David b...

This remarkable, detailed and insightful biography is a great joy, and in the audiobook version you get the author's impressions of vari...

Having found Juliet Gardiner's history of Wartime Britain hugely useful, I've been making my way through this even more enormous to...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine features interviews with the three directors of this year's forthcoming TV episodes, and has the r...

I said in reviewing Martin Edwards' The Life of Crime last month that Patricia Highsmith had been "smuggling her snails in her bra...

The new special edition of the official  Doctor Who Magazine is devoted to showrunners and producing the series from 1963 to now. I intervi...

You can now watch the video of my interview with Fatima Manji about her book Hidden Heritage , conducted yesterday as part of Macfest. It...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine boasts a 28-page retrospective on  The Sarah Jane Adventures  which are now back up on the BBC's i...

On Saturday 11 March, I'll be in conversation with award-winning author and broadcaster Fatima Manji about her book Hidden Heritage: Red...

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...