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Tomorrow, as part of Macfest, I'll be interviewing children's author Shirin Shamsi in a free online event .  Shirin will read her bo...

The Blu-ray set Doctor Who: The Collection Season 7 has been out for a few weeks. It includes the documentary I co-produced, Terror of the S...

Jackson Brodie, ex-soldier, ex-copper and stalwart private detective, is an unlikely participant in a murder-mystery evening put on by some ...

An archivist pal asked if I was any relation of Edith Guerrier (1870-1958), the subject of Tirzah Frank’s fascinating “The ‘Boston Marriage’...

This is an odd and very racist novel, first published in 1953 but largely set 30 years later. The reprint I read is from 1982, with cover ar...

This is a righteously angry account of the past 15 years of politics in the UK, under Conservative (mis)rule. O’Brien ends with the disastro...

I've just received my copy of the Blu-ray boxset  Doctor Who Season 7, comprising the 25 episodes first broadcast in 1970. This saw the ...

I’ve just received my copy of Doctor Who Chronicles — 1970 , from the makers of Doctor Who Magazine . It features, on pp. 28-31 “Cross purpo...

I'm quoted in  The Bookseller , in Heloise Wood's piece, 'Carelessness rife' in UK publishing fact-checking as concerns grow...

"There's always another way, even for you." The follow-up to Children of Time , first published in 2019,   is another epic, mi...

This is fantastic - the moving, funny, emotional tale of teenage Valentina negotiating loss and love. The Dr bought it for me as a Valentin...

On Thursday, 16 January, I received from a kind friend this enormous 500+ page book on the David Lynch version of Dune — a film we both fin...