Friday, January 30, 2026

Steering the Craft, by Ursula le Guin

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Dr Una McCormack recommended me this brilliant book on the craft of writing. The title is a pun, the idea being that a piece of writing — a ...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

DWM The Yearbook 2026

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The latest Doctor Who Magazine special edition is out today, The Yearbook 2026 . Among its wonders is something by me: How You Watch Who (p...
Monday, January 26, 2026

Box of Delights, by Richard Marson

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I’ve greatly enjoyed this enormous, 540-page oral history of children’s television on the BBC between 1967 and 1997, published by Ten Acre B...
Friday, January 23, 2026

LokI: A Bad God's Guide 5, by Louie Stowell

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The latest instalment in Louie Stowell's Loki series, A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos , is great fun, though the nine year-old L...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Blake's 7 in the Telegraph

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I've written a piece for the Telegraph about Blake's 7 (£), in response to yesterday's story in Deadline  about a new reboot  w...
Sunday, January 11, 2026

The Doctor Who Dinosaur Book, by Terrance Dicks and George Underwood

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For the time being, this will be the last of my long posts on the 236 books written by Terrance Dicks . I need to focus on some other projec...
Thursday, January 08, 2026

Vortex #203 — The Heartless Sea

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The new issue of Big Finish’s free magazine Vortex includes a feature on an audio Doctor Who story I’ve worked on, out next month. The Hear...