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I first read this an age ago, before I had children or that much knowledge of autism. It's been a strange thing to revisit now I have mo...

Harryboy Boas is a working-class gambler in Hackney. While his sister has married well and moved to Finchley, Harryboy still haunts the stre...

The Dr has made available online the full text of her memoir, My Baby Box , which deals with her (our) experience of infertility, the death ...

Something a bit different for Easter: this Sunday at 2 pm, I'm interviewing author and artist Osman Yousefzada about his extraordinary m...

Tomorrow, as part of Macfest, I'll be interviewing children's author Shirin Shamsi in a free online event .  Shirin will read her bo...

It is 10 years today since the death of our eldest daughter, Emily Maud, aged just eight days' old. I blogged about what happened  that ...

View from our hotel Back from a nice week in hot, sunny Athens. As the Dr said, it's been fascinating to see what the kids made of the p...

Pedro, by Nimbos This morning, we took turns to say goodbye to Pedro, our grumpy, once-chonky cat, before the Dr escorted him away on one la...

A couple of long car journeys have been greatly aided by this pair of excellent books written by Louie Stowell and read by Ben Willbond. The...

This is another excellent, creepy novel by the author of Boy in the Tower . Ana feigns sickness to get out of going to school, where she...

This largely autobiographical novel was first published in 1847, the same year that Anne's sisters published the better known  Jane Eyre...

My brother got me this as house-warming present. What feels an age ago but was really at New Year, he and I tramped bits of Alderley Edge de...

This is the third of 12 episodes of Star Trek: the Next Generation recommended to me. First there was 1.13 Datalore , then 2.9 The Measure...

Ten year-old Aniyah is a star hunter, an astronomer, thrilled by the discovery of a new star in the night sky. But she thinks the star is...

The new issue of Lancet Psychiatry (January 2020) features my review of the Wellcome Collection's current exhibition, "Play Well...

I've had a busy few weeks - as a guest at the Hastings Literary Festival, working through notes on various things and researching and...

This beautifully packaged anthology summarises 11 Christmas lectures from the Royal Institution covering aspects of natural history. The ...

The new issue of TV Years magazine , from the makers of TV Choice , is devoted to classic children's television. I've written a f...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine marks my debut as compiler of the "Time Team" - the regular feature in which a group of 2...

I learned about this book in December when the author was a guest on the (brilliant) 1800 Seconds on Autism podcast , and was particular...