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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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Celebrate The Queen’s Jubilee with a FREE Candy Jar Book!

Celebrate The Queen’s Jubilee with a FREE Candy Jar Book!

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With the jubilee holiday fast now underway, Candy Jar thought a free Lucy Wilson story would be a nice way to start the festivities. Baz Greenland has written a fun, action-packed, timey-wimey story featuring the seventeen-year-old Defender of Earth, Lucy Wilson. Lucy finds herself in 1977 during the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, but how will she save the Queen without breaking time? Perhaps UNIT can help!

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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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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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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JEFF CUMMINS DOCTOR WHO… AND BEYOND

JEFF CUMMINS DOCTOR WHO… AND BEYOND

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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

TIMESLIDES: THE DOCTOR WHO ART OF COLIN HOWARD

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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!

Brand New Releases From Candy Jar Books!

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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!

LETHBRIDGE-STEWART SHORT STORY COLLECTION 3 WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

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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

Lethbridge-Stewart THE OVERSEERS

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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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