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The blog of writer and producer Simon Guerrier

Monday, March 30, 2020

Van Gogh's paintings in Doctor Who

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Vincent Van Gogh was born on this day in 1853, and this evening my clever friend Emily Cook at Doctor Who Magazine has organised a special...
Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Picard: The Last Best Hope, by Una McCormack

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This extraordinary novel by my friend Una McCormack is something really special: the best tie-in novel I've read in an age, a great n...
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Thursday, March 12, 2020

At Childhood's End, by Sophie Aldred

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This melding of Doctor Who old and new is great fun and surprisingly moving. With help from Mike Tucker and Steve Cole, it's written ...
Wednesday, March 04, 2020

Doctor Who Magazine 549

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The new issue of the official  Doctor Who Magazine includes a feature I've co-written with Sophie Iles , a preview of the animated ver...
Monday, March 02, 2020

Vortex 133

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The new issue of free magazine  Vortex includes a feature on Doctor Who audio spin-off Susan's War , including an interview with me ...
Sunday, March 01, 2020

The Painted Banquet, by Jocelyn Rickards

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Subtitled "My Life and Loves", this gossipy autobiography by costume designer Jocelyn Rickards is great fun. From an early age, c...
Friday, February 28, 2020

The Silence of the Girls, by Pat Barker

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This account of the final year of the Trojan war is largely from the perspective of princess-turned-slave Briseis, although there are als...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Susan's War cover

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Tom Webster's exhilarating cover to Doctor Who audio box-set  Susan's War has now been revealed, along with the blurb for my sto...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

The Subtle Knife, by Philip Pullman

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Will Parry runs away from home and then into another world, where he meets Lyra Silvertongue and seeks to help her. But soon they're ...
Saturday, February 15, 2020

The Pleasant Profession of Robert A Heinlein, by Farah Mendlesohn

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More than a decade ago, I was in the audience to see my clever friend Farah Mendlesohn interview Iain Banks . In preparation, Farah had r...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

When Will There Be Good News?, by Kate Atkinson

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The third Jackson Brodie novel (after  Case Histories and One Good Turn ) is another compelling read, by turns warm and funny, then utte...
Thursday, February 06, 2020

Celestial Toyroom 502

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Issue 502 of Celestial Toyroom , the journal of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society , features a big interview with the authors of variou...
Tuesday, February 04, 2020

Haven't You Heard?, by Marie le Conte

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Subtitled, "Gossip, Power and How Politics Really Works", this is an insightful and often funny insider's account of the in...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Sherlock Holmes - The Vanishing Man, by Philip Purser-Hallard

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In 1896, Holmes and Watson are called in to investigate the disappearance of Thomas Kellway from a locked room with a window in the door,...
Sunday, January 26, 2020

The Sign of the Four, by Arthur Conan-Doyle

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"This Sherlock Homes story was published in 1890 so contains actions and attitudes reflective of the Victorian era in which it was ...
Saturday, January 25, 2020

The Secret Commonwealth, by Philip Pullman

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The middle chapter of The Book of Dust is thrilling, rich and downright weird. Since reading volume one - La Belle Sauvage - I've go...
Friday, January 24, 2020

Susan's War

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Yesterday, the splendid lot at Big Finish announced Susan's War - a box-set of audio adventures in which we find out what Doctor Who...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

Once bitten in the Lancet

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The February issue of the Lancet Psychiatry includes my  "Once bitten", my review of the book Dracula for Doctors by Fiona Sub...
Sunday, January 12, 2020

The Star Outside my Window, by Onjali Q Raúf

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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...
Monday, December 30, 2019

The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury

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This wasn't what I expected. As a classic of science-fiction, I thought it would be engineer-heroes conquering the frontier and debat...
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