Gareth

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Robert Redford, his nod of recognition.

I’ve got a postman who calls me “young man”. Hahahaha you can stay.

Have trans people tried being nicer to the people denying their right to exist?

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Gareth's review of Doctor Who 3/5: 3.5 Reread 05/10/2025 I don’t particularly disagree with my first review here. I’ve now read all the preceding Eighth Doctor books for context - and that is of course unnecessary, since the whol...

#61: The Burning by Justin Richards. A solid, spooky soft reboot of the Eighth Doctor range. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Gareth's review of Casino 4/5: It’s difficult not to think of Goodfellas (or rather, Wiseguy) when reading this, not just because most of the same movie people returned to make a film about it, but because you can see why they...

#60: Casino: The Rise and Fall of the Mob in Las Vegas by Nicholas Pileggi. Enthralling gangster legend from the Wiseguy/Goodfellas writer. It’s not quite as near the knuckle as Henry Hill’s life story, but you can see why it made a great movie. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I’m very fond of it. But still a bit confused by some of the dubbing.

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Gareth's review of Doctor Who 4/5: Mike Tucker’s first solo novel isn’t a huge diversion from his work with Robert Perry: again there are fannish touches, monsters, there’s plenty of post-watershed violence. Broadly it feels like...

#59: Prime Time by Mike Tucker. Decent, violent TV satire with some clever touches. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

In addition to A FISTUL OF DOLLARS, FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE and THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY... We have: THE DEVIL'S DOLLAR SIGN, A COFFIN FULL OF DOLLARS, BLOOD FOR A DIRTY DOLLAR, THE MILLION DOLLAR BLOODHUNT and A DOLLAR TO DIE FOR.

So today I learned that there were tie-in novels for THE DOLLARS TRILOGY that went beyond the movies and boy do they have some amazing titles.

I look forward to the Blu Ray extra about your quest to get it back. 🙂

Oh hooray!

Liked but not liked, obviously.

Oh I’ve no idea. But there was a sort of general hope around the election that they’d do something. Self-induced delusion, I know.

The Dems are going to unveil their brilliant plan any… minute…

Doctor Who: The BBC Books #68 – Campaign by Jim Mortimore Doctor Who Campaign By Jim Mortimore NB : This isn’t a BBC Book, but it might have been. Commissioned and then rejected as it wasn’t quite w...

Certifiable, cancelled and then published anyway, here’s Campaign: one of Jim Mortimore’s odder explorations of Doctor Who. (Psst: it’s really good.) neilisthebestdalek.blogspot.com/2025/09/doct...

Doctor Who: The BBC Books #67 – Verdigris by Paul Magrs Doctor Who: The Past Doctor Adventures #30 Verdigris By Paul Magrs Paul Magrs returns. Can a time-travelling double decker bus be far behind...

Paul Magrs is one of Doctor Who’s premier whimsy-merchants and Verdigris is very much a banquet of same. neilisthebestdalek.blogspot.com/2025/09/doct...

Doctor Who: The BBC Books #66 – Coldheart by Trevor Baxendale Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor Adventures #33 Coldheart By Trevor Baxendale The last time we saw Trevor Baxendale he was injecting some very ...

The EDAs love inhospitable worlds and Coldheart is definitely another one of those. neilisthebestdalek.blogspot.com/2025/09/doct...

Doctor Who: The BBC Books #65 – Short Trips And Sidesteps edited by Stephen Cole and Jacqueline Rayner Doctor Who: Short Trips Short Trips and Sidesteps Edited by Stephen Cole and Jacqueline Rayner It’s time for our third and final round of Sh...

The third and final Short Trips from BBC Books might be the best of the lot. It’s certainly the oddest. neilisthebestdalek.blogspot.com/2025/09/doct...

Doctor Who: The BBC Books #64 – The Fall Of Yquatine by Nick Walters Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor Adventures #32 The Fall of Yquatine By Nick Walters Once again the Eighth Doctor Adventures have changed. From...

You’ll find an interesting mix of the traditional and the slightly messed up in The Fall Of Yquatine, an improved effort from Nick Walters. neilisthebestdalek.blogspot.com/2025/09/doct...

Doctor Who: The BBC Books #63 – Tomb Of Valdemar by Simon Messingham Doctor Who: The Past Doctor Adventures #29 Tomb of Valdemar By Simon Messingham One thing I like about these daft old Doctor Who novels is ...

Narrative fun and games happen in (The?) Tomb Of Valdemar, my favourite Simon Messingham book yet. neilisthebestdalek.blogspot.com/2025/09/doct...

Doctor Who: The BBC Books #62 – The Shadows Of Avalon by Paul Cornell Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor Adventures #31 The Shadows of Avalon By Paul Cornell Paul Cornell is back! And he’s in a peculiar mood! The fo...

Paul Cornell saunters into the EDAs and up-turns the Compassion storyline in The Shadows Of Avalon. Jolly fantasy fare, but the ending’s the killer. neilisthebestdalek.blogspot.com/2025/09/doct...

Doctor Who: The BBC Books #61 – Last Of The Gaderene by Mark Gatiss Doctor Who: The Past Doctor Adventures #28 Last of the Gaderene By Mark Gatiss Mark Gatiss returns to Doctor Who with a trip down memory la...

Catching up on book blog posts. Mark Gatiss returns to the Pertwee era in Last Of The Gaderene, a spirited romp. neilisthebestdalek.blogspot.com/2025/08/doct...

Cover for my new book: INTO THE GROOVE: THE 1980s: THE ULTIMATE DECADE IN MUSIC HISTORY by Justin Lewis 'Forensic, forthright and downright unputdownable' IAN WADE

It's got everyone in it from Paul Young to Young Marble Giants, and from Salt-N-Pepa to Chas & Dave.

#IntoTheGroove, my new book, the month-by-month story of 1980s pop, out on Thurs 2 Oct from @eandtbooks.bsky.social. Pre-order from everywhere and anywhere, eg: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/into...

Gareth's review of The Man Who Died Seven Times 4/5: A murder mystery with time travel — I mean, I never stood a chance of not picking this one up. Apparently it’s 30 years old! I had no idea there was such a thing. The Man Who Died Seven Times is...

#58: The Man Who Died Seven Times by Yasuhiko Nishizawa. Clever and dry-witted time loop murder mystery. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I was powerless to resist that lovely hardback. Very excited to learn more about those shows.

Gareth's review of Doctor Who 2/5: 2.5 I can hazard a guess why Lawrence Miles didn’t come back to resolve his many plot threads from Alien Bodies and Interference. I doubt even he’d be able to do a good job of it, however, as th...

#57: The Ancestor Cell by Peter Anghelides & Stephen Cole. A readable but messy conclusion to too many story arcs. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Gareth's review of Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1) 4/5: Ready Player One meets The Hunger Games in this pacey, colourful, funny yet surprisingly dark adventure series. I admired the gusto with which Matt Dinniman throws the reader (and Carl) into dun...

#56: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman. Exciting first instalment in a funny Hunger Games-esque series featuring monsters and aliens. Colourful and epic. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...