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I've written a short piece for the online Telegraph about writer Malcolm Hulke, "The communist who turned Doctor Who into an eco-w...

This is the first of Terrance’s books to be published in my lifetime, on 12 July 1976. The indicia says it was published simultaneously in G...

I said a couple of years ago that the experience of reading A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles was a bit like a conversation with my lat...

The second novel in the Mounties trilogy was published simultaneously in hardback and paperback on 8 April 1976, a little more than two mon...

This book has been more of a challenge than previous entries in the list of 236 books by Terrance Dicks . It is not as well known as many of...

First published in 2011, this absorbing history of the Joint Services School for Linguists (JSSL) describes how, during the 1950s, some 5,00...

This is an impressively detailed, close analysis of compellingly nuts and unsettling TV film  Penda’s Fen , originally broadcast on BBC-1 on...