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I bought this Penguin Classics edition second-hand an age ago because David Whitaker (about whom I wrote a book , which I never mention) had...

This engrossing, 774-page brick of a volume details the day-by-day production of Doctor Who in the late 1960s, when Patrick Troughton was t...

I greatly enjoyed this exhaustive memoir of the US space programme written by BBC aviation correspondent Reg Turnill — a familiar face from ...

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 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. What j...

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...

Big Finish have announced details of my new six-hour audio novel, Doctor Who - The Missing Hour , to be released in October. June 1940 and t...

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

It took some time to read this long, densely written “new history of humanity”, as it is subtitled, but this is a volume to savour not to ru...

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