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The blog of writer and producer Simon Guerrier, new book Written by Terrance Dicks out 30 November.

Friday, October 30, 2026

Written by Terrance Dicks - pre-orders open

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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...
Thursday, October 29, 2026

War With the Robots, by Harry Harrison

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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...
Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Target Book Club 2026

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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 ...
Monday, October 26, 2026

Hideous Kinky, by Esther Freud

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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...
Thursday, October 22, 2026

The School for Scandal and Other Plays, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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...
Wednesday, October 21, 2026

If We Tolerate This, by Daniel Trilling

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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 ...
Saturday, October 17, 2026

The Doctor Who Production Diary - 2. The Troughton Years, by David Brunt

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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...
Friday, October 16, 2026

Doctor Who Magazine #635

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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...
Thursday, October 08, 2026

Trailer for The Missing Hour

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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...
Sunday, October 04, 2026

The Moonlandings, by Reginald Turnill

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I greatly enjoyed this exhaustive memoir of the US space programme written by BBC aviation correspondent Reg Turnill — a familiar face from ...
Friday, September 25, 2026

The return of Play School

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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...
Thursday, September 24, 2026

Typhoon, by Qaisra Shahraz

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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...
Friday, September 18, 2026

The Coral Bones, by EJ Swift

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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...
Monday, September 14, 2026

Arise to Conquer, by Wing Commander Ian Gleed, DFC

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A friend recommended this extraordinary first-hand account of the Battle of Britain by one of the Hurricane pilots, written soon after the e...
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Sunday, September 13, 2026

Jean Steps Out, by Jean Kitson

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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...
Saturday, September 12, 2026

Written by Terrance Dicks book launch, 25 November

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The Portico Library in Manchester will host the launch of my new biography, Written by Terrance Dicks , on the evening of 25 November. I...
Friday, September 11, 2026

The Great Dictator, by Matthew Sweet

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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...
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