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Julian Lawnsdsley has set up a bookshop in a small town, escaping from the evils of the City. One potential customer is a peculiar old man w...

Wartime Britain , which I read last month, referred to these diaries by Winifred Vere Hodgson (1901-79), who lived at 56 Ladbroke Road when ...

My last night out in London before lockdown in 2020 was to attend a signing for my chum Una's book Picard: The Last Best Hope , which ab...

This enormous volume - 591 pages before  the exhaustive acknowledgements, notes, bibliography and index - is a detailed history of the Secon...

I'm a guest on the Journeys into Genealogy podcast with host Emma Cox, talking about my efforts to research the history of my own surnam...

I made slow progress through this short, slight book, in part because of work and life and everything else at the minute. But its quiet, int...

The new issue of medical journal Lancet Psychiatry includes my essay, "Was it obvious to everyone else that I'd fallen for a lie?...

Having read Michael Bartholomew's biography of HV Morton , I'm now on to Morton himself. HV Morton's London is a collection of t...

My Mum recently asked how many books I've written, and I realised that I didn't know. That then led to a conversation with my boss J...

I've script edited one of the three Blake's 7 audio stories that make up The Terra Nostra , a new set out in January 2022 from Big F...

Loved this deep dive into how exactly Doctor Who came back to TV in 2005, talking to many of those involved including Julie Gardner, Jane Tr...

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

Centurion Marcus Flavius Aquila is stationed at Isca Dumnoniorum (modern-day Exeter) but longs to get back to his home - and the good weathe...

I'm a guest on the Gallifrey's Most Wanted podcast, chiefly chatting to hosts Jeff and Ross about the trilogy of Doctor Who stories ...

This is a very good biography of a very successful writer and pretty awful human being. Michael Bartholomew brilliantly teases out the real ...

The latest Doctor Who Magazine is, of course, devoted to the new TV series will lots of exclusive access to cast and crew. There's also...

Jeremy Phillips and I discuss the merits - if there are any - of the 2006 remake of The Wicker Man on the latest episode of the Cinema Limbo...

It's taken a while to get through this because it's both dense and pretty grim. The anonymous author makes a compelling case about ...

Published in the UK today by Titan Books (and in the US on the 16th) , Sherlock Holmes - The Great War is my first novel in a while. The bl...

With a bit of driving to do, I downloaded the audio version of The Bookshop read by Eve Karpf . It is, as Backlisted led me to expect, a q...