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Three woman, separated by 250 years, are drawn to the same stretch of the Great Barrier Reef. In the present day, marine biologist Hana Ishi...

A friend recommended this extraordinary first-hand account of the Battle of Britain by one of the Hurricane pilots, written soon after the e...

Published this month, Jean Steps Out: The Memoirs of a Yorkshire Actress in Rep 1946-1959 is an account by Jean Kitson (1928-2020) of her y...

The Portico Library in Manchester will host the launch of my new biography, Written by Terrance Dicks , on the evening of 25 November. I...

The Dr and I had a lovely time this week in That London, at the launch for this new biography of Barbara Cartland by our pal Matthew. It was...

First published in 1951, this is the fourth of Snow’s “Strangers and Brothers” novels, which chart the life of lawyer and scholar Lewis Elio...

Star Trek is 60 years-old today, sort of. Over the weekend of 1-5 September 1966, its pilot episode The Menagerie was shown to attendees o...

First published in July 1982, this 56-page novel began a trilogy that Terrance Dicks wrote for Pepper Press, whose children’s editor, Brenda...

This third volume of breezy adaptations in prose of Star Trek episodes was first published in the US in April 1969, by which point the TV s...

Harold Terence Sneed is found in his parlour in Borough, stabbed through the ribs. The irony is that he’d just conducted a seance; one of th...

She wakes to the sound of singing, and finds herself in the dark. To begin with, she doesn't have a name or any memory - but Mara has be...

This novel won the Clarke Award last week, and well deservedly. It's the tale of two women, Lucy and Hester, between 2020 and 2070, from...

I greatly enjoyed this shrewd, wide-ranging exploration of the seven-part Doctor Who serial variously known as Serial B, The Mutants or Th...