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Lethbridge-Stewart The Overseers Part II!

Lethbridge-Stewart The Overseers Part II!

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Candy Jar Books is pleased to announce the third and final book in its Brendon Years trilogy of Lethbridge-Stewart novels. The Hiraeth Embrace is the second novel from James Middleditch, who previously wrote short stories for several HAVOC Files volumes, and had a story in the recent UNIT short story collection. In 2021 he had his first novel published, The Overseers, and The Hiraeth Embrace is a direct sequel to that novel. Range Editor Andy Frankham-Allen says: “This is, unusually,…

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Artwork and details revealed for Doctor Who Target novels

Artwork and details revealed for Doctor Who Target novels

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The Doctor Who Target range is expanding with four new titles publishing on 14th July 2022, each with newly commissioned cover artwork by Anthony Dry. These four new novelisations of Doctor Who stories are great adventures to lose your in space and time, expand or even start your very own Target novel collection. ‘Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood’ by David Fisher Available for pre-order here The Doctor is delighted when his quest for the Key to Time leads him to his favourite…

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Doctor Who luminaries contribute to new “Pets in Time” collection, in aid of the RSPCA

Doctor Who luminaries contribute to new “Pets in Time” collection, in aid of the RSPCA

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The Doctor Who Appreciation Society has just released Pets in Time, a new book supporting the RSPCA, full of both moving and hilarious stories by actors, writers and production crew from the world of Doctor Who, about their own very special pets. Introduced by Colin Baker, edited by Ian Wheeler, with a cover by Basil Waite (aka Foodoodles), along with the many contributions from actors such as Nicola Bryant, Janet Fielding, Louise Jameson, John Leeson, Katy Manning, Wendy Padbury and Sarah Sutton, the book also features art by Colin Howard, Paul Magrs, Nick Miller, Jey Parks and Raine Szramski. Doctor Who writers such as Andrew…

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Two New Books From Candy Jar!

Two New Books From Candy Jar!

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Candy Jar Books is pleased to announce The Analysis Bureau written by Tom Dexter with profits going to the Disasters Emergency Committee Ukraine Appeal. The book features appearances by Professor Travers (The Abominable Snowmen/The Web of Fear), Tobias Vaughn and Packer (The Invasion) and even a Quark from The Dominators. A team of new characters, operating anonymously for a high ranking government minister, investigate attempted alien incursions as a far greater, darker plot begins to unfurl around them. Told over three short stories, The Analysis…

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Get daily Time Lord meditations in new Doctor Who book

Get daily Time Lord meditations in new Doctor Who book

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How do we cope when life gets difficult? What does it mean to succeed, and to fail? The Doctor, after hundreds of adventures through scores of years, has all the answers. And at last they’re in the mood for sharing.   To celebrate Jodie Whittaker’s final episode as the Thirteenth Doctor this autumn, a page-a-day collection of The Doctor’s wisdom, musings and meditations, to keep you inspired and living your best Time Lord life. “How do we cope when life gets…

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Lethbridge-Stewart: THE END BEGINS

Lethbridge-Stewart: THE END BEGINS

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Candy Jar Books is pleased to announce the first book in its final series of Lethbridge-Stewart novels. The final year of Lethbridge-Stewart novels is split in two halves, with the first a trilogy of novels set during Lethbridge-Stewart’s time as a teacher at Brendon School. This first of these, A Most Haunted Man, sees the return of Sarah Groenewegen to the series, with her first novel since 2017’s The Daughters of Earth, although her most recent short story featured in…

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Dr. Who & The Daleks: The Official Story of the Films

Dr. Who & The Daleks: The Official Story of the Films

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From Titan Books this September 6th 2022 Dr. Who and the Daleks: The Official Story of the Films. Dr. Who and the Daleks: The Official Story of the Films is the definitive guide to the making of Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. The first and only big-screen adaptations of the long-running TV series, the films, starring Peter Cushing as the titular time-traveller, are beloved by fans – and the Daleks, in glorious Technicolor, have…

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WHO: A HISTORY IN ART

WHO: A HISTORY IN ART

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Who: A History in Art by Ken Tarling is published with the help and support of Candy Jar’s self-publishing partner imprint Jelly Bean Books. It is a personal artistic excursion into the history of Doctor Who. Ken has always been a fan of Doctor Who, and like most fans of the 1980s, he thoroughly enjoyed drawing characters from the series. One such favourite was the Terileptils from the Peter Davision story The Visitation. Over the years he has considered compiling…

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First draft for tactile Doctor Who book delivered to visually impaired fan

First draft for tactile Doctor Who book delivered to visually impaired fan

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Visually impaired fan Louis Moorhouse has received the first draft of the first book of Doctor Who Living Paintings for review. Blind since he was 18 months old, 20-year-old Moorhouse from Bradford, England spearheaded a fundraising campaign to help the publisher Living Paintings create Doctor Who Touch-to-See books which would help blind fans like him enjoy and engage with Doctor Who on a whole new level. The publisher agreed if Moorhouse could raise the funds for research and development. Doctor Who Touch to See books will be sent out across the…

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The Latest Titles From Candy Jar Books.

The Latest Titles From Candy Jar Books.

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UNIT: OPERATION WILDCAT Candy Jar is adding a further four stories to the line-up in the previously announced UNIT Files: Operation Wildcat and Other Stories. Range Editor, Tim Gambrell, has recruited some tried and tested hands, in John Peel and Chris Lynch, as well as two writers new to Candy Jar. Tim explains the thinking behind the changes: “I love situations like this, because they focus everyone’s creative energies. It started with a quick conversation with Shaun Russell just before…

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