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The blog of writer and producer Simon Guerrier

Saturday, October 15, 2022

Doctor Who Magazine #583

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The new issue of  Doctor Who Magazine is largely devoted to forthcoming TV episode The Power of the Doctor , and features big interviews wi...
Sunday, September 18, 2022

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë

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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...
Saturday, September 17, 2022

Blake's 7: No Name cover and blurb

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Big Finish have released the cover and blurb for  Allies and Enemies , the trilogy of Blake's 7 audio plays out this December that incl...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

Doctor Who Magazine #582

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The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine features Sacha Dhawan on the cover as the Master, part of the 20-page preview of next month's epic...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Doctor Who Magazine #581

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Bit late on this as I've been away, but the new issue of Doctor Who Magazine boasts an extraordinary cover by Oliver Arkinstall-Jones, ...
Monday, August 22, 2022

LokI: A Bad God's Guide 1 and 2, by Louie Stowell

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A couple of long car journeys have been greatly aided by this pair of excellent books written by Louie Stowell and read by Ben Willbond. The...
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Here lies David Whitaker

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Today, Matthew Sweet and I journeyed out to Chiswick to find the grave of David Whitaker (1928-80), original story editor of Doctor Who and ...

Doctor Who: Season 2 Blu-ray

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Yesterday at 3 pm the masters announced that the next Doctor Who Blu-ray set will be Season 2, the 39 episodes originally broadcast between ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Doctor Who Magazine special edition - Guest Stars

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The new special edition of Doctor Who Magazine is devoted to the subject of guest stars in the series. I've written the entries on: Jea...
Saturday, July 30, 2022

The Day No One Woke Up, by Polly Ho-Yen

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This is another excellent, creepy novel by the author of Boy in the Tower . Ana feigns sickness to get out of going to school, where she...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

Penelope Fitzgerald - A Life, by Hermione Lee

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Last year, when I asked what books by Penelope Fitzgerald I should read, a few people suggested this very good biography by Hermione Lee. Le...
Thursday, July 21, 2022

Doctor Who Magazine #580

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The new issue of  Doctor Who Magazine boasts a cover by Anthony Lamb showing the Daleks as they blaze into action. There's lots of cove...
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Blake's 7: No Name

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Big Finish has announced Aliens and Enemies , a new trilogy of Blake's 7 audio plays  due for release in November, and including one wri...
Saturday, July 16, 2022

Drunk on All Your Strange New Words, by Eddie Robson

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Lydia is a translator for Fitz, an alien cultural attache, but translating his psychically spoken thoughts into English has an effect like d...
Friday, July 15, 2022

20 years as a freelance writer

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Dr and me, about 2002 Twenty years ago this evening I took the Dr - though she was not then a Dr - to the pub to pitch a modest proposal: I ...
Sunday, July 10, 2022

Once Upon a Galaxy: The Making of the Empire Strikes Back, by Alan Arnold

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This remarkable book has long been out of print and copies sell for silly money, but it's well were tracking down. Alan Arnold was the p...
Sunday, July 03, 2022

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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"In all his time in camps and prisons, Ivan Denisovich had lost the habit of concerning himself about the next day, or the next year, o...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Curse of the Chosen, by Alexis Deacon

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A little over four years ago, I posted about A Game Without Rules , the second volume in the Geis trilogy of graphic novels written and illu...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Head of Drama, by Sydney Newman (with Graeme Burk)

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Written in 1987 and published in 2017, this memoir is subtitled "The life and times of the creator of Doctor Who " - a claim Newma...
Monday, June 27, 2022

Still Life, by Sarah Winman

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Ulysses Temper is a British soldier in Italy during the Second World War. There he befriends art historian Evelyn Skinner, and helps her res...
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