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Having whizzed through The Lost Voices of Pompeii while on holiday in Naples, I found — horror of horrors — that I had nothing to read, so ...

For my recent 50th birthday, the Dr and the children took me to Pompeii — a trip I’ve wanted to make since studying the subject at school. T...

I've written a review for Social Care Today of the new book A British Childhood - How Our Children Live Now by the children's laurea...

Mawukana na-Vdnaze, the narrator of this novel, has been dead a few times. But being remembered or even thought of brings him back from the ...

My former editor Justin died last weekend. His great friend Peter Anghelides has written movingly about him .  I knew Justin, first, for his...

The talk I gave on Doctor Who writers David Whitaker and Terrance Dicks for the York Festival of Ideas earlier this month is now up in full ...

Out now from the people what make Doctor Who Magazine , The Time Museum   is - it says here - a virtual exhibition of the whole of Doctor Wh...

I'm one of the contenders on the debut episode of Gav Rymill's Doctor Who quiz, battling Ellie Collins, Benjamin Cook and Tim Missin...

I am in the Telegraph again, this time with a piece about the photographs that recently came to light of the never-broadcast dry-run episod...

Last month, I interviewed children's author and illustrator Nadine Kaadan for an online event that was part of the annual Macfest intern...

This gripping thriller, first published in 1993, comprises diary entries written by American teenager Lauren Oya Olamina between 2024 and 20...

Fallen angels stalk the ruins of Paris. The newly fallen Isabelle is preyed upon by a street gang who sever two of her fingers, keen to stea...

I've had some late nights reading / poring over this beautiful new book collating the artwork that Adrian Salmon produced over more than...

This is the first of 10 novels to feature the “Baker Street Irregulars” — not the street gang who assisted Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of th...

First published in the US in 1992, and in the UK in 1994, Fools by Pat Cadigan won the Clark Award for best science-fiction novel in 1995. ...

I have a short story in the forthcoming anthology What The World Needs Now: Mystery Stories Inspired by the Music of Burt Bacharach , edited...

First published on 16 July 1992, this was the second of a series of illustrated, non-fiction comedy titles written by Terrance Dicks for Pic...

I really enjoyed this engaging insightful study of the first Beatles movie, filmed and released in 1964. It’s the first book written by my f...

This second volume of prose adaptations of TV episodes was first published a year after the first, in February 1968. So says the indicia of ...