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Fellow December novelists Trevor Baxendale, Jim Swallow and I will be signing our Doctor Who books at Forbidden Planet in London on Saturday...

"Oh yes, you're a Banks groupie," said my former tutor when we bumped into each other last night - the first time I've see...

The sacking of the voice of the Underground made front-pages last night, and was even picked up on telly’s Ten O’clock News. London Undergr...

Space-archaeologists and historians of the future may be excited by the following. Everyone else can just talk amongst themselves. This week...

One way not to write is to spend lots of time deciding on names for your characters. Is he a George? Is he an Alan? Does that fit on the sho...

Pottered round to Nimbos 's last night for the final episode of Sarah-Jane . Won't spoil it for those watching on sorry old terrestr...

The last few days I have been a Simon Head-in-Air. If I remember rightly, this means I’m due to fall into a canal and drown. And the reason ...

You know what? I wouldn’t object to Angelina Jolie giving me the horn. Last night, Codename Moose fulfilled his blood-oath and took me and ...

Much excitement round at Nimbos ’s last night as we ate pizza and watched Doctors Who . Delighted by the wealth of gags and continuity and i...

As followers of this blog might have noticed, I read – and probably write – a lot of trashy, melodramatic hokum. Adventures where the barest...

For your delight and entertainment, here are a few recent search terms that suffer people unto this blog. Beowulf kit off Regretably, there ...

A sizeable chunk of the stalagmite of wanna-read books are those by my colleagues and playmates. The loyal and supportive thing is to buy th...

In lieu of rent, Codename Moose is due to take the Dr and I to see Beowulf in 3D at the Imax . I am a little excited about this and may have...

On Saturday, I went to see Paul Cornell in Faringdon , about 17 miles out of Oxford. There was quite a lot of lager and a furious game of Sp...

As I noted in last year’s post about Casino Royale (the novel) , Commander James Bond of MI6 earned his licence in the Second World War. He ...

As a special treat, the Dr took me to Brixton last night to see “Elizabeth II” , also known as “The Golden Age”. We had to wait nearly 40 mi...

I’ve spoken before about my concerns with writers’ biographies – that they tend to place too much emphasis on the Real Events and Real Peopl...

Despite the slings and arrows of outrage loosed by the Dr and Codename Moose, last night I watched Imagine. Many and various designers spoke...

I am currently writing a sticker-book. This is a first for me, and can be added to the great and peculiar range of things wrought that are n...

I have the signature of Nimbos to corroborate that what follows is my joke, and not at all that of Señor Will Howells . Polly from Doctor ...