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You can now pre-order my new biography, Written by Terrance Dicks , which will be published by Ten Acre Books on Monday, 30 November. We...

This anthology of eight science-fiction stories was first published in the US in 1962 by Pyramid Publications and the UK in 1967 by Dobson B...

Art by  Gürkan Özer On Saturday, I was in London to speak at Target Book Club, reading Chapter 4 of my forthcoming Doctor Who  novelisation ...

I can see why this strange, disturbing novel had such an impact when first published in 1992. It’s the semi-autobiographical account of a ch...

I bought this Penguin Classics edition second-hand an age ago because David Whitaker (about whom I wrote a book , which I never mention) had...

On Monday, the Dr and I had a day trip to Oxford. She went to the new Aphrodite exhibition at the Ashmoleon , and I spent an afternoon in a ...

This engrossing, 774-page brick of a volume details the day-by-day production of Doctor Who in the late 1960s, when Patrick Troughton was t...

The new issue of the official Doctor Who Magazine is out today, and comes with a free Target novel: Doctor Who - At Childhood's End by...

Big Finish have posted a three-minute excerpt from my forthcoming, six-hour  Doctor Who audio novella, The Missing Hour , which is due for r...

I greatly enjoyed this exhaustive memoir of the US space programme written by BBC aviation correspondent Reg Turnill — a familiar face from ...

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...