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What follows is dedicated to the memory of my friend John J Johnston who died yesterday morning. The EES has an obituary . You can also see ...

Just sixty days after the publication of novelisations of the Third Doctor’s first two screen adventures — Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion...

This is a novelisation of the first series of the TV drama of the same name, created by Mark Gatiss and co-written by Matthew Sweet (both of...

The Writers' Guild of Great Britain has produced a new, free guide to working with factual material.  I've been involved in helping ...

“In this, the first adventure of his third ‘incarnation’, DOCTOR WHO, Liz Shaw, and the Brigadier grapple with the nightmarish invasion of t...

The new issue of the official Doctor Who Magazine is out today and includes After Image by me, in which I look again at recent TV episodes ...

In the summer of 1993, me and my friend O. trekked up to London to work our way round various galleries, ticking off a longish list of paint...

This is the tenth full-length novel in the Rivers of London series about a London copper who is also a wizard, and it is a delight. I bough...

Until recently, I knew little about Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950), the best-selling author of swashbuckling, romantic adventures set in the pa...

I had a lovely time at Target Books Day on Saturday (19 July), organised by James Goss. He assembled a really fun, engaging series of talks ...

I'm the guest on the latest episode of books podcast Backlisted . Keen to choose a book that was a formative influence and by an author ...

As expected, Alexander Baron’s autobiography confirms that various elements of his novel The Lowlife (1963) are based on real life: his ow...

I first read this an age ago, before I had children or that much knowledge of autism. It's been a strange thing to revisit now I have mo...

Harryboy Boas is a working-class gambler in Hackney. While his sister has married well and moved to Finchley, Harryboy still haunts the stre...

The Dr has made available online the full text of her memoir, My Baby Box , which deals with her (our) experience of infertility, the death ...

I’ve been blown away by this extraordinary, powerfully moving book, having met the author briefly at an event earlier this year. The subtitl...