"The Artificial Bees"

"The Artificial Bees" is a short science-fiction story first published in Uncanny magazine issue #9 in March 2016.
- Read "The Artificial Bees" online for free
- Interview with me by Deborah Stanish about the story 
- Details of Uncanny magazine issue #9

The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who

Written with Dr Marek Kukula of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who is published by BBC Books on 4 June 2015. It contains 15 original short stories (which I edited) based on a scientific theme, each accompanied by an essay exploring that theme in more detail.
- The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who on the Ebury website

"An Experiment in the Formulae of Thought"

"An Experiment in the Formulae of Thought" is an original steampunk story I've written for the Irregularity anthology published by Jurassic London in July 2014.
- Irregularity on the Jurassic London website
- "Calling irregular authors" - the blog I responded to

Crossing the Line

"Crossing the Line" is a short, unsettling story I wrote in August 2013. It's based on AA Milne's rhyme for children, "Lines and Squares" from When We Were Very Young (1924).
- read "Crossing the Line" free online

"Last Rites"

"Last Rites" is a short ghost story in The Hammer Out Book of Ghosts 2012, published in January 2012 to raise money for brain tumour charities.
- Buy The Hammer Out Book of Ghosts 2012

Doctor Who: “Letting Go”

My short story “Letting Go”, read by India Fisher, was included on Short Trips Volume 2 in February 2011. It features the eighth Doctor.
- Buy Short Trips: Volume 2 from Big Finish

Bernice Summerfield: “Six Impossible Things”

I wrote "Six Impossible Things", a short story for the anthology Present Danger, edited by Eddie Robson and published in September 2010.
- Buy Present Danger from Big Finish

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

In 2010, I wrote 11 two-page comic strips and 12 one-page short stories for GE Fabbri's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles magazine, published in Russia.

"The Party in Room Four"

"The Party in Room Four" is a short story included in "The Panda Book of Horror" (November 2009) published by Obverse Books, and edited by Paul Magrs and Stuart Douglas.
- Buy "The Panda Book of Horror"

Doctor Who: "Re: Collections"

"Re:Collections" (May 2009) comprises the best Doctor Who short stories from 28 volumes of Big Finish's Short Trips range. I have chosen and written introductions for stories from each of the three volumes I edited ("The Lampblack Wars" by Matthew Sweet from The History of Christmas; "The Avant Guardian" by Eddie Robson from Time Signature; "Lares Domestici" by Anna Bratton from How The Doctor Changed My Life), and had a story of mine chosen, too ("How You Get There").
- Buy Re:Collections from the Big Finish website

In The Footsteps Of Gilgamesh

I've been commissioned to write a story for In The Footsteps of Gilgamesh (release date to be confirmed).

Doctor Who: "Pass It On"

"Pass It On" features in Doctor Who: Short Trips - Indefinable Magic (March 2009), edited by Neil Corry.

Doctor Who: "Do You Smell Carrots?"

"Do You Smell Carrots?" features in Doctor Who: Short Trips - Christmas Around the World (December 2008), edited by Xanna Eve Chown.

"Johtaja lähtee eläkkeelle"

"Johtaja lähtee eläkkeelle" is a short story by me, translated into Finnish by Johanna Ahonen and published in the 2007/4 issue of Spin magazine (April 2008). The (unpublished) English version of the story is called "The Case of the Retiring Magnate".

Doctor Who: "The Great Escapes"

"The Great Escapes" features in Doctor Who: Short Trips - Defining Patterns (March 2008), edited by Ian Farrington. It's got the eighth Doctor's friend Lucie Miller in it.

Doctor Who: "There's Something About Mary"

"There's Something About Mary" features in Doctor Who: Short Trips - Snapshots (June 2007), edited by Joseph Lidster.

"The Bounty Hunters"

"The Bounty Hunters" is an original science-fiction short story that features in the free-to-download Pantechnicon #3 (PDF 0.7Mb) (March 2007).

Doctor Who: "The Eighth Wonder Of The World"

"The Eighth Wonder of the World" - free to read online - is one of my two stories in Doctor Who: Short Trips - Dalek Empire (December 2006), which I co-edited with Nicholas Briggs. The other story was "The Best Joke I Ever Told".

Doctor Who: "The Best Joke I Ever Told"

"The Best Joke I Ever Told" is one of my two stories in Doctor Who: Short Trips - Dalek Empire (December 2006), which I co-edited with Nicholas Briggs. The other story was "The Eighth Wonder of the World".

Doctor Who: "DS al Fine"

"DS al Fine" is the story I wrote to wrap all the different stories in Doctor Who: Short Trips - Time Signature (October 2006), which I also edited.