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Yesterday, the BBC announced the return of children’s TV series Play School after 38 years . The news prompted me to look out the piece I w...

Last night, I was at Chorlton Library to interview writer Qaisra Shahraz as part of Chorlton Book Festival. It was the first time we’d met i...

Three woman, separated by 250 years, are drawn to the same stretch of the Great Barrier Reef. In the present day, marine biologist Hana Ishi...

A friend recommended this extraordinary first-hand account of the Battle of Britain by one of the Hurricane pilots, written soon after the e...

Published this month, Jean Steps Out: The Memoirs of a Yorkshire Actress in Rep 1946-1959 is an account by Jean Kitson (1928-2020) of her y...

The Portico Library in Manchester will host the launch of my new biography, Written by Terrance Dicks , on the evening of 25 November. I...

The Dr and I had a lovely time this week in That London, at the launch for this new biography of Barbara Cartland by our pal Matthew. What j...

First published in 1951, this is the fourth of Snow’s “Strangers and Brothers” novels, which chart the life of lawyer and scholar Lewis Elio...

Star Trek is 60 years-old today, sort of. Over the weekend of 1-5 September 1966, its pilot episode The Menagerie was shown to attendees o...

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...

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

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...