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This novel won the Clarke Award last week, and well deservedly. It's the tale of two women, Lucy and Hester, between 2020 and 2070, from...

I greatly enjoyed this shrewd, wide-ranging exploration of the seven-part Doctor Who serial variously known as Serial B, The Mutants or Th...

It took some time to read this long, densely written “new history of humanity”, as it is subtitled, but this is a volume to savour not to ru...

Rekindling the spirits of lost television An absorbing new history of the interwar period, gleaned from the echoes left by early, experiment...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine is out today, and features another Who Connections piece by me, this time on Star Trek (pp. 44-49), ex...

You can now watch my talk, "The David McKee Sketchbook - The Origins of Mr Benn and Elmer", on YouTube: The talk was given on Frid...

The new Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition is out now, devoted to Patrick Troughton and 60 years of the Second Doctor . I've contribute...

In the Before Times, pre-Covid, when I lived in London, I would pop along to bookish events — launches, talks and readings — that caught my ...

“Something grabs the back of her shirt and Cora can’t scream, all her words extinguished in her chest. This is when she dies. The weak link,...

I've written a piece on Mr Benn and the work of my hero David McKee (1935-2022) for the Telegraph : "Where the strange, secret worl...

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...