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The new issue of the official  Doctor Who Magazine is out in shops now, with lots of information about the TV series starting next month. I...

"My gnomic utterances," said Fen severely, "reduce themselves to three: that I do not believe in the crime passionnel ; that ...

Sisters Laleh and Myung live deep inside the Whale of Babel, but can pass from this extraordinary, vast creature into other worlds. But Myun...

A week ago I took the Lord of Chaos to see Dune Part Two at the cinema, him having caught up on the first part just the night before. It...

As with Craig Miller , I chatted to David Gerrold at the GallifreyOne convention last month and bought his book when I got home. The Trouble...

I've met Craig Miller briefly a couple of times at the GallifreyOne convention in Los Angeles but this is the first year I got to speak ...

“The museum is a powerful and extraordinarily malleable cultural sorting house. [Museums] are places for demonstrating that the West is best...

The Drifter was created for STW-9 in Perth, Western Australia, by David Whitaker, a British writer probably best known as the first story e...

Asha Akindele ensures life in the Lower Quarter of planet Gahraan in the year 6066, just about managing not to speak out against the Emperor...

The new issue of  Doctor Who Magazine has arrived, with a handful of things by me in it. pp. 14-20 Script to Screen: The Goblin Crew In a d...

I'm a guest on the latest edition of the Doctor Who Literature Podcast , this time discussing the novelisation Timelash by Glen McCoy, f...

I had an amazing time at the Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles this weekend. What a buzz! But also I didn't sleep at all on the jo...

Out now, two new documentaries tell the story of the original  Doctor Who novels published 1991-2005. A load of editors and authors (includi...

I'm on the latest episode of the Cinema Limbo podcast all about neglected movies. This time, host Jeremy Philips and I analyse the 1977 ...

The 600th issue of Doctor Who Magazine is out now! Last night I was in London to celebrate this audacious landmark at a swanky knees-up. Re...

This is a novelisation of the second Garry Halliday serial, about the adventures of an airline pilot (see my post about the first one, Garry...

I'm featured briefly in the new 2024 Yearbook from that lot at Doctor Who Magazine. For his piece on last year's Doctor Who books, ...

Next month, I'll be at the enormous Doctor Who convention Gallifrey One in Los Angeles, where the headline guests include Sir Derek Jac...

My book  David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television is one of 24 titles longlisted for best non-fiction (long) in this year...

I really enjoyed this wide-ranging ramble through Bond, the Beatles and the British psyche. It charts the interweaving histories of the Fabs...