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Art UK has posted a new piece by me, "Pretty ugly: Honoré Daumier drawing for print" . If that sort of thing is of interest, here ...

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...

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...

It's been fun to revisit this novel as part of my research into the BBC-1 Classic Serials of the 1980s worked on by Terrance Dicks. He w...

As expected, Alexander Baron’s autobiography confirms that various elements of his novel The Lowlife (1963) are based on real life: his ow...

Published in 1990, this short, 174-page book examines the process of adapting “classic” novels for the screen. “Intended for a general as we...

Over a series of long drives and shorter washings-up, I've worked my way through this 35+ hour reading of Our Mutual Friend , the novel ...

On Sunday, 23 July 1963, BBC staff director Waris Hussein met for the first time with Verity Lambert, the newly appointed producer of a seri...

It's taken some weeks to get through this 16-hour reading of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall , which I last read while at university a mille...

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

I'm currently in the midst of writing Sherlock Holmes - The Great War , an original novel for Titan Books. More details soon but here...

I'm a guest on a special episode of comedian Edy Hurst's podcast devoted to The War of the Worlds , nattering about the life of HG W...