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Friday, November 22, 2024

London Rules, by Mick Herron

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The fifth instalment in the Slow Horses series is another involving and fun thriller, the established characters joined by a host of new, we...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

Daleks: The Ultimate Guide

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Out today, this massive and comprehensive 224-page bookazine  from the makers of Doctor Who Magazine  is full of everything you could possib...
Monday, November 18, 2024

The Long Way Back, by Margot Bennett

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In the year 3392, an automated grading machine decides that seven year-old Grame is fit to be no more than a "mechanical repetitive wor...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Interviews for Air Quality News, Infotech, Macclesfield Now, Social Care Today

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I posted last year a bunch of interviews I conducted for technology news site Infotec . Since then, I've done a load more for Infotec an...
Tuesday, November 05, 2024

Karla’s Choice - a John le Carré novel, by Nick Harkaway

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“In the early spring of nineteen sixty-three, there was a rumour — unconfirmed and a little scandalous — that George Smiley might almost be ...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Something Who podcast #102 and #103

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The latest episodes of Doctor Who podcast Something Who compare 1975 story The Ark in Space with 2010 episode The Beast Below . I thought I ...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

George Markstein and the Prisoner, ed. Roger Goodman

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George Markstein (1926  —  but perhaps 1929  —  to 1987) was a journalist and writer, probably best known as script editor of the first 13 e...
Friday, October 25, 2024

The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Atomic Radiation, by Margot Bennett

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“Informed public opinion is infectious, even to governments.” (p. 149) Thursday, 30 July 1964 saw publication of two paperback “Penguin Spec...
Friday, October 18, 2024

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

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LXXI The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all they ...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2024

The Secret Life of Fungi, by Aliya Whiteley

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This handsome little hardback is an arresting read. The strange, tactile quality of Aliya Whiteley's fiction has long entranced me (see ...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Spook Street, by Mick Herron

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I've been listening to this, the fourth of Mick Herron's Slow Horses books, a little behind the run of the TV version and it's b...
Monday, October 14, 2024

Exit Through the Fireplace, by Kate Dunn

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First published in 1998, this is an oral history of repertory theatre - which is where the same group of actors star in play after play, usu...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

Doctor Who Magazine #609

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The latest issue of the official  Doctor Who Magazine is out now, and very excitingly comes with an exclusive Target novelisation of the 19...
Monday, October 07, 2024

Real Tigers, by Mick Herron

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This is the third of the, to date, eight Slough House novels (following Slow Horses and Dead Lions ). Again, the TV version - which I saw f...
Sunday, October 06, 2024

The Furious Masters, by Margot Bennett

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This is a review of a comic science-fiction novel from 1968, sort of John Wyndham done as sitcom. Yet in poking fun at the mores and anxieti...
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