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First published in 2011, this absorbing history of the Joint Services School for Linguists (JSSL) describes how, during the 1950s, some 5,00...

I've written a piece for the new issue of Writing Magazine , out now, on handling factual material. There are pointers on copyright, lib...

I said of Terrance’s previous book, Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders , that there was loads of Doctor Who in 1975, with 35 new epis...

This is a lovely, funny and often moving biography of the comedian Barry Cryer (1935-2022) written by his youngest son. Each chapter is prec...

I did some work on the new Social Care Today special report, People First With AI and Tech-Enabled Care , now available to download for free...

This is an impressively detailed, close analysis of compellingly nuts and unsettling TV film  Penda’s Fen , originally broadcast on BBC-1 on...

Big Finish have announced another new Doctor Who audio play I've written, to be released in February 2026. The Heartless Sea by Simon G...

Peter Brookes’s cover artwork for this Doctor Who novelisation has haunted me since I first saw it, aged four. It was one of 16 covers feat...

Big Finish have announced the details of Bret Vyons Lives! , the second volume of adventures for the Space Security Service . This time, as ...

In late 1971, 13 year-old Keith Miller from Edinburgh wrote to the BBC to ask about the status of the official Doctor Who fan club, run for...

First published on 13 March 1975, this book must have come as a surprise to the now well-established readership of these Doctor Who novelis...