Candy Jar Books is pleased to announce a special novel in its successful Lucy Wilson range, The Three Lucys – due out later this month!
The Lucy Wilson Mysteries features the granddaughter of Doctor Who legend, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, as she battles alien invaders alongside her best friend, Hobo. While The Three Lucys is the landmark thirtieth book in the popular series, it’s designed to welcome readers new and old alike.
And it’s perfect for Doctor Who fans, who will immediately recognise the title’s allusion to Who’s tenth anniversary special, The Three Doctors.
The book is released later this month (June 2026) to celebrate Candy Jar Books’ fifteenth anniversary.
In The Three Lucys, Lucy Wilson meets two other versions of herself: one, a middle-aged professor who is fleeing mysterious ‘chaos’ that’s unravelling time and space; and the other, a young girl held captive at a sinister military installation.
Beyond the title, there are plenty of Doctor Who Easter eggs inside, as author Philip Bates (Companions: More Than Sixty Years of Doctor Who Assistants) explains:
“Shaun [Russell, Head of Publishing] approached me to write a Lucy that pays homage to The Three Doctors – hugely exciting not just because it’s to celebrate a big anniversary but also as it’s my first full Lucy Wilson novel – so I mapped out my idea against the plot of that serial, taking inspiration from its villain and his antimatter world.
“I sprinkled references to Who throughout: most notably, the majority of the chapter titles come from the Target novelisation of The Three Doctors, albeit giving a few a uniquely ‘Lucy’ twist. I’m especially proud of refashioning ‘A Shock for the Brigadier’ – a character who doesn’t appear in The Three Lucys, but is certainly there in spirit.”
Philip has previously edited Lucy Wilson books and written short stories for the canon including ‘The Labours of Lucy Wilson’, published in Back in London (2025), and two recent ‘freebies’ that give fans a taste of what’s to come in The Three Lucys. He continues:
“Anyone who read ‘100 Things That Happened on Easter Island’ and ‘The Green Dog’ will already have met Professor Lucy Wilson; now, fans can find out more about Lucy-in-the-future and the ‘chaos’ she’s running from…”
The Three Lucys will be released at the same time as Paul Wines’ The Games Master, a book initially only available at the Barry Card and Collector Con 2026.
Blurb for The Three Lucys:
‘Me don’t know what’s happening.’
One day, Lucy Wilson wakes up and suddenly can’t say the word ‘I’. Its meaning begins to dissolve in her head, and soon, the effect spreads. She finds it difficult to remember what
day comes after Thursday. At school, she forgets what the lesson about numbers is called.
How long before she loses the names of her own parents? Or her best friend, Hobo? And she’s not the only one. Or maybe she is?
Someone is stealing the words from numerous Lucy Wilsons across time and space. The first is a middle-aged professor. The second is a rebellious teenager. And the third is our Lucy: pulled from her universe, running out of words, running out of hope!
Blurb for The Games Master:
It’s the only thing anyone’s been talking about – even Lucy and Hobo, and they see real aliens and monsters all the time!
But the Games Master has been plotting. The next level of the game is afoot… and he knows that every great detective needs a trusted companion.
For Sherlock Holmes, it’s Watson. For Lucy Wilson, it’s Hobo.
With everyone at the Comic Con in danger, can our favourite duo solve the mystery before things get out of hand?
ADDITIONAL INFO:
NEW RELEASES
We’re pleased to announce that the following titles are now available…
Hardback and paperback editions of…
- When I Say Run, Run!: The Patrick Troughton Years by Tom Dexter
- UNIT: The Vaughn Supremacyby Tim Gambrell
- Lethbridge-Stewart: The New Unusual by Adrian Sherlock and Andy Frankham-Allen
• Lethbridge-Stewart: A Very Private Haunting by Sharon Bidwell
• Lethbridge-Stewart: The Man from Yesterday by Nick Walters
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CANDY JAR ANNOUNCES SUMMER SALE
With the future of televised Doctor Who currently uncertain, there’s never been a better time to explore the wider universe of stories.
For years, Candy Jar Books has expanded the universe through the adventures of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Lucy Wilson and beyond. This Summer Sale is the perfect opportunity to catch up on stories you’ve missed and revisit old favourites.
The TARDIS may not be landing this Christmas, but the adventure certainly doesn’t stop here.
