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The blog of writer and producer Simon Guerrier

Monday, September 07, 2026

Doctor Who and the Missing Hour

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Big Finish have announced details of my new six-hour audio novel, Doctor Who - The Missing Hour , to be released in October. June 1940 and t...
Saturday, September 05, 2026

The Mystery of the Missing Diamond, by Terrance Dicks

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First published in July 1982, this 56-page novel began a trilogy that Terrance Dicks wrote for Pepper Press, whose children’s editor, Brenda...
Friday, September 04, 2026

Star Trek 3, by James Blish

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This third volume of breezy adaptations in prose of Star Trek episodes was first published in the US in April 1969, by which point the TV s...
Tuesday, September 01, 2026

Bookish Volume II, by Matthew Sweet

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Harold Terence Sneed is found in his parlour in Borough, stabbed through the ribs. The irony is that he’d just conducted a seance; one of th...
Friday, August 28, 2026

The Burial Tide, by Neil Sharpson

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She wakes to the sound of singing, and finds herself in the dark. To begin with, she doesn't have a name or any memory - but Mara has be...
Thursday, August 20, 2026

Doctor Who Magazine #633

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The new issue of the official Doctor Who Magazine boasts some exciting news: my novelisation Doctor Who - The Six Doctors will be publishe...
Wednesday, August 19, 2026

When There Are Wolves Again, by EJ Swift

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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...
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Saturday, August 15, 2026

Black Archive: The Daleks, by Oliver Wake

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I greatly enjoyed this shrewd, wide-ranging exploration of the seven-part Doctor Who serial variously known as Serial B, The Mutants or Th...
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Thursday, August 13, 2026

The Dawn of Everything, by David Graeber and David Wengrow

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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...
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Saturday, August 01, 2026

Magic Rays of Light, by John Wyver

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Rekindling the spirits of lost television An absorbing new history of the interwar period, gleaned from the echoes left by early, experiment...
Thursday, July 23, 2026

Doctor Who Magazine #632

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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...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Talk on David McKee, Mr Benn and Elmer

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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...
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Doctor Who Legends - Patrick Troughton

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The new Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition is out now, devoted to Patrick Troughton and 60 years of the Second Doctor . I've contribute...
Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Hookland Fragments vol 1, by David Southwell

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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 ...
Monday, July 13, 2026

Bat Eater, by Kylie Lee Baker

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“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,...
Saturday, July 11, 2026

Mr Benn in the Telegraph

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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...
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