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Rekindling the spirits of lost television An absorbing new history of the interwar period, gleaned from the echoes left by early, experiment...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine is out today, and features another Who Connections piece by me, this time on Star Trek (pp. 44-49), ex...

You can now watch my talk, "The David McKee Sketchbook - The Origins of Mr Benn and Elmer", on YouTube: The talk was given on Frid...

In the Before Times, pre-Covid, when I lived in London, I would pop along to bookish events — launches, talks and readings — that caught my ...

“Something grabs the back of her shirt and Cora can’t scream, all her words extinguished in her chest. This is when she dies. The weak link,...

I've written a piece on Mr Benn and the work of my hero David McKee (1935-2022) for the Telegraph : "Where the strange, secret worl...

Having whizzed through The Lost Voices of Pompeii while on holiday in Naples, I found — horror of horrors — that I had nothing to read, so ...

For my recent 50th birthday, the Dr and the children took me to Pompeii — a trip I’ve wanted to make since studying the subject at school. T...

I've written a review for Social Care Today of the new book A British Childhood - How Our Children Live Now by the children's laurea...

Mawukana na-Vdnaze, the narrator of this novel, has been dead a few times. But being remembered or even thought of brings him back from the ...

My former editor Justin died last weekend. His great friend Peter Anghelides has written movingly about him .  I knew Justin, first, for his...

The talk I gave on Doctor Who writers David Whitaker and Terrance Dicks for the York Festival of Ideas earlier this month is now up in full ...

Last month, I interviewed children's author and illustrator Nadine Kaadan for an online event that was part of the annual Macfest intern...

This gripping thriller, first published in 1993, comprises diary entries written by American teenager Lauren Oya Olamina between 2024 and 20...

Fallen angels stalk the ruins of Paris. The newly fallen Isabelle is preyed upon by a street gang who sever two of her fingers, keen to stea...

I've had some late nights reading / poring over this beautiful new book collating the artwork that Adrian Salmon produced over more than...

This is the first of 10 novels to feature the “Baker Street Irregulars” — not the street gang who assisted Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of th...