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The John Nathan Turner Production Diary 1979-1990

5 January 2022 admin Comments 0 Comment

BREAKING NEWS FROM TELOS PUBLISHING. If you thought everything was known about the production of DOCTOR WHO in the eighties?.. think again! The John Nathan Turner Production Diary 1979-1990 – Written by Richard Molesworth. This book draws on documentation from the late John Nathan-Turner’s personal archive to present virtually a day by day breakdown of what the Producer was doing, who he met, where he went and why and putting it all in the context of the show at the…

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TWO FREE BRAND NEW STORIES FROM CANDY JAR

1 January 2022 admin Comments 0 Comment

Candy Jar is pleased to announce two free-for-download short stories to kick off 2022. These are Sweaty Flow and The Gray Lady of Martyr’s House. Sweaty Flow is written by Iain Mclaughlin, who has recently contributed a story to the upcoming UNIT anthology Operation Wildcat (due to be released in the New Year). Combining comedy, hijinks and adventure, this short story finds Lethbridge-Stewart and Doris staying in a Brighton hotel run by Mr Sinclair, probably the worst hotelier in the…

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JEFF CUMMINS DOCTOR WHO… AND BEYOND

14 December 2021 admin Comments 0 Comment

Since 1976, Jeff Cummins has been a prolific artist on many book covers, album covers, and posters. He thinks of himself as the invisible artist due to the fact that much of his work is not-known – its out there, but most people are unaware that it was Jeff who did it. So, Candy Jar Books is pleased to present a book collecting Jeff’s art from the last five decades, The Invisible Artist! He is well-known for his work on…

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TIMESLIDES: THE DOCTOR WHO ART OF COLIN HOWARD

14 December 2021 admin Comments 0 Comment

Candy Jar Books is pleased to announce Timeslides: The Doctor Who Art of Colin Howard. While most fans will know Howard best for illustrating some thirty VHS covers in the 1990s, his Doctor Who portfolio further includes a vast amount of highly-detailed paintings for Doctor Who Magazine, the BBC Books ranges, private commissions, the Lethbridge-Stewart novels, calendars, posters, Doctor Who Classic Comics, and the recent DVD and Blu-ray range of animations for missing episodes like The Macra Terror, Shada, and…

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Brand New Releases From Candy Jar Books!

2 December 2021 admin Comments 0 Comment

MIND OF STONE SPECIAL EDITION – STRAIGHT AS AN ARROW Candy Jar Books is pleased to announce Mind of Stone: Special Edition by Iain McLaughlin, and sees Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart sent to prison for destroying a rural English village! It also brings back fan favourite, Captain Knight, from the 1968 Doctor Who serial The Web of Fear. Shaun Russell, head of publishing at Candy Jar, says: “In 2016 we released Mind of Stone and it was immediately obvious that book was something special. In my opinion the…

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LETHBRIDGE-STEWART SHORT STORY COLLECTION 3 WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

10 October 2021 admin Comments 0 Comment

Candy Jar Books is pleased to announce that the winner of the third Lethbridge-Stewart Short Story Competition is Peter Frankum. In 2017, 2019 and 2021 Candy Jar offered aspiring writers and fans of the Lethbridge-Stewart series the opportunity to pen their own story. Notable entrants included Jonathan Macho (who has since written several short stories and The Lucy Wilson Mysteries book, The Serpent’s Tongue), Richard Brewer (the author of the recent Lethbridge-Stewart anthology, The Ever-Running) and the 2019 winner Megan Fizzell (who…

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Lethbridge-Stewart THE OVERSEERS

10 October 2021 admin Comments 0 Comment

Candy Jar Books is pleased to announce the second book in it’s ninth series of Lethbridge-Stewart novels. The Overseers is the first novel from author James Middleditch after two previous short stories for the series. Range Editor Andy Frankham-Allen says: “From the first time I read James’ first short story, Piece of Mind, I knew I had found a very good author. And it was after his second short, Latent Image for The Laughing Gnome anthology, that I knew it…

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Travel through space and time with the Doctor Who Atlas.

10 September 2021 admin Comments 0 Comment

Travel through time and space like never before in this stunning guide to the worlds of Doctor Who. Journey from Gallifrey to Skaro to Mondas and everything in between in this new illustrated Atlas. With full colour maps, you can take in epic stories, the glorious history of the many faces of the Doctor, and magnificent views of the entire saga with this perfect collectable and gift for fans of advenutures in the Doctor’s blue box. The Doctor Who Atlas contains…

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DRAMA AND DELIGHT: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF VERITY LAMBERT

4 September 2021 admin Comments 0 Comment

Richard Marson’s acclaimed biography returns for a limited reprint. For five decades, the name Verity Lambert appeared on the end credits of many of Britain’s most celebrated and talked about television dramas, among them Adam Adamant Lives!, Budgie, The Naked Civil Servant, Minder, Edward and Mrs Simpson, Eldorado, G.B.H. and Jonathan Creek. She was the very first producer of Doctor Who, which she nurtured through its formative years at a time when there were few women in positions of power…

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THE CHILDREN OF JANUARY

25 August 2021 admin Comments 0 Comment

Candy Jar Books is pleased to announce that The Children of January, the latest instalment of The Lucy Wilson Mysteries, is now available for pre-order, exclusively from the Candy Jar and Lethbridge-Stewart websites. Lucy Wilson is the granddaughter of the iconic Doctor Who favourite Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, and the last four years have seen her contend with a succession of extra-terrestrial threats drawn to her home in the seaside village of Ogmore-by-Sea, Wales. This time, however, Lucy is packed off…

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