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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 ...

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...

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...

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...

It’s been illuminating to read this short book exploring what it is about the work of David Lynch that so affects us as viewers, having just...

This relatively short, breezy guide to writing better screenplays is full of good, practical advice. I was keen to see what it had to say ab...

The four-part Doctor Who story Pyramids of Mars was originally broadcast in October and November 1975. It was then repeated, in a one-hour...