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The blog of writer and producer Simon Guerrier

Friday, August 29, 2025

Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen, by Terrance Dicks

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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 ...
Monday, August 25, 2025

Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks

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Just sixty days after the publication of novelisations of the Third Doctor’s first two screen adventures — Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

Bookish, by Matthew Sweet

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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...
Saturday, August 23, 2025

Writers' Guild guide to working with factual material

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The Writers' Guild of Great Britain has produced a new, free guide to working with factual material.  I've been involved in helping ...
Sunday, August 17, 2025

Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion by Terrance Dicks

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“In this, the first adventure of his third ‘incarnation’, DOCTOR WHO, Liz Shaw, and the Brigadier grapple with the nightmarish invasion of t...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

Doctor Who Magazine #620

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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 ...
Sunday, August 03, 2025

Daumier, by Sarah Symmons

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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...
Saturday, August 02, 2025

Stone & Sky, by Ben Aaronovitch

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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...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Bellarion, by Rafael Sabatini

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Until recently, I knew little about Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950), the best-selling author of swashbuckling, romantic adventures set in the pa...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Target Books Day audio recording

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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 ...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Backlisted #244: The Ballad of Halo Jones

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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 ...
Monday, July 21, 2025

Chapters of Accidents, by Alexander Baron

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As expected, Alexander Baron’s autobiography confirms that various elements of his novel The Lowlife (1963) are based on real life: his ow...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon

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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...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

The Lowlife, by Alexander Baron

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Harryboy Boas is a working-class gambler in Hackney. While his sister has married well and moved to Finchley, Harryboy still haunts the stre...
Wednesday, July 09, 2025

My Baby Box, by Dr Debbie Challis

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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 ...
Friday, July 04, 2025

Learning to Think, by Tracy King

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