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This is the first of 10 novels to feature the “Baker Street Irregulars” — not the street gang who assisted Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of th...

First published on 16 July 1992, this was the second of a series of illustrated, non-fiction comedy titles written by Terrance Dicks for Pic...

A fortnight ago, I was again at the BBC’s Written Archives Centre to undertake more research for my forthcoming biography of Terrance Dicks....

“If we want to capture something of the essence of working-class life … we must say that it is the ‘dense and concrete life’, a life whose m...

A matter transporter in Star Trek works like a fax machine that destroys the original. That, effectively, is the case put by Dr Leonard McC...

From the makers of Doctor Who Magazine , Doctor Who Chronicles: 1984 is now on sale. My two pieces are: Frontios Row Seat (pp. 48-49) Today...

A Criminal Practice , a comic play by Terrance Dicks first broadcast on 5 July 1967, has been repeated on Radio 4 Extra today at 3pm and 9pm...

The Hamster Book Club podcast, devoted to  Doctor Who books, has posted a big long interview with me , covering my books The Time Travellers...

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...

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...