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This is a novelisation of the second Garry Halliday serial, about the adventures of an airline pilot (see my post about the first one, Garry...

I'm featured briefly in the new 2024 Yearbook from that lot at Doctor Who Magazine. For his piece on last year's Doctor Who books, ...

Next month, I'll be at the enormous Doctor Who convention Gallifrey One in Los Angeles, where the headline guests include Sir Derek Jac...

My book  David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television is one of 24 titles longlisted for best non-fiction (long) in this year...

I really enjoyed this wide-ranging ramble through Bond, the Beatles and the British psyche. It charts the interweaving histories of the Fabs...

Atomic Theory is at work in a rural parish of Ireland. This, says Sergeant Pluck of the local police station, explains a spate of missing bi...

This is a beguiling mystery by Margot Bennett, first published in 1955 and recently republished in a nice new edition by the British Library...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine is out today, with a deep dive by Benjamin Cook into the shooting of the regenerations sequence seen i...

I've just received a copy of this collection of essays and insights on the cultural history and impact of Doctor Who , edited by Paul Bo...

This is a concise, 125-page novelisation of the first Garry Halliday serial. The children's TV series about the adventures of an airline...

The idea of mashing up detective fiction and sci-fi isn't new. Isaac Asimov did it in The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun in the 1950s ...

The latest issue of ginormous Doctor Who fanzine Vworp Vworp! is now available, with 180 glossy pages devoted to the very first episode, An...

I've really enjoyed this new six-part series on Curiosity Steam , with my hero James Burke returning to the subject of the unexpected hi...

Over a series of long drives and shorter washings-up, I've worked my way through this 35+ hour reading of Our Mutual Friend , the novel ...

On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov is called before the Emergency Committee of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affair...

To mark 60 years of  Doctor Who , Toby Hadoke has devoted a special five-part instalment of his Happy Times and Places podcast to the very f...

I chatted to Kenny Smith for the latest episode of the Power of 3 podcast. As well as asking me about my new book  David Whitaker in an Exci...

I've just received my copies of The Sky at Night: The Art of Stargazing , a new guide by Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock to the 88 constellatio...

Watching the glorious  The Daleks in Colour  last night, I was especially struck by the bleakness of the story and world, a tale of nuclear ...

The first episode of Doctor Who was broadcast 60 years ago today and there's a whole load of stuff on TV, radio and online to mark the o...