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I've finally caught up with the amazing HBO/Sky mini-series Chernobyl , a gruelling experience because the horror is so perfectly exe...

This glorious, funny, wise and sad novel had me utterly enthralled. It's the tale of two former Suffragettes in the late 1920s, the p...

"Four Doctors... Forty-three episodes... One groundbreaking director". The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine boasts hidden trea...

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

The 1 August issue of medical journal the Lancet Psychiatry includes "Cryin', talkin', sleepin', walkin living dolls...

A huge, confused ape wrestles with King Kong. Reader, that ape is me... The Cinema Limbo podcast re-evaluates old films, and host Jerem...

In the chaos of war-torn Iraq, even claiming the body of dead loved one is difficult. Hadi, a junk dealer, collects scraps of different c...

Semiosis  is, like Aliya Whiteley's The Loosening Skin , one of six contenders for the 2019 Clarke Award, to be announced this Wednes...

This Saturday morning, Radio 4 Extra are repeating Floating in Space - a compendium of space-related programming presented by Samira Ahm...

My friend Jonny's book on 1964 Doctor Who  story The Dalek Invasion of Earth  is excellent - and not only because its reference to my...

My essay "Man on the Moon", about the psychology involved in landing the first people on the lunar surface 50 years ago this mo...

One benefit of the Arthur C Clarke Award for best science-fiction novel of the year moving from April to July is that when the Dr asked wh...

Portrait by Nimbos Last night, Nimbos took me on an extra-special birthday treat - to the top of the BT Tower. As part of the London...

The superb new issue of Doctor Who Magazine is out tomorrow and devoted to Third Doctor actor Jon Pertwee, who was born 100 years ago. T...

Exciting! I have signed with a new agent, Steven Russell of Collective Talent, who will represent me in stuff I write for radio, TV and fil...

The Moon - A Celebration of Our Celestial Neighbour is a new book published by Royal Observatory Greenwich to accompany the Moon exhibiti...

I was given this 2017 book after chatting with a friend about Andrew O'Hagan's 60,000 word essay on the Grenfell fire , which bri...

The outrageously named Tobias Winter and Vanessa Sommer are two cops teamed up to investigate a peculiar death - the victim consumed by t...

Here's Tom Webster's amazing cover for Doctor Who - The Home Guard , an audio adventure I wrote that's out in November.  ...

The prologue to The Tombs of Atuan (1971) is barely a page long and utterly devastating. In a valley of blossoming apple trees, a mother ...