Announcing Lethbridge-Stewart – The Audiobooks!

lethbridgestewart_01Candy Jar Books is very pleased to announce a new partnership with Fantom Films, to bring a new dimension to the Lethbridge-Stewart range of books – on audio.

Candy Jar Books launched the fully-licensed Lethbridge-Stewart series in February 2015, with Andy Frankham-Allen’s The Forgotten Son kicking off the venture in style. Almost immediately fans asked to see audiobooks of the titles released, and Candy Jar Books is happy to reveal that they have listened. Fantom Films, producer of various audiobook titles, including classics by Charles Dickens and Bram Stoker and Doctor Who related titles, have joined forces with Candy Jar Books to produce a new range of unabridged Lethbridge-Stewart audiobooks read by Terry Molloy.

The Forgotten Son by Andy Frankham-Allen is released in February 2016 (with a sample soon to appear on Fantom Films’ soundcloud page: https://soundcloud.com/fantompublishing), followed by The Schizoid Earth by David A McIntee in March. The remaining two titles from series one, Beast of Fang Rock by Andy Frankham-Allen and Mutually Assured Domination by Nick Walters, will be released in June and July respectively.

lethbridgestewart_02Shaun Russell, Head of Publishing at Candy Jar Books, says, “People have really been excited about the range, and have continually asked for audio versions of the titles. This was something we’ve always wanted to do, so when Fantom Films got in touch we jumped at the opportunity. It’s a great pleasure to finally be able to announce this new avenue for the series. I am very excited that Terry Molloy’s narration/performance really reflects the vision the writers had for the characters. We all couldn’t be happier with the result.”

Terry Molloy is no stranger to audio, having been a radio and voice actor for almost forty-three years. He has played the character of Mike Tucker in BBC Radio 4’s The Archers since 1973, and since 1984 he has played Davros, creator of the Daleks, in Doctor Who both on television and audio. Paul WT Ballard, director of the audio range, says, “Terry has done a brilliant job in bringing these stories to life, adding a whole new dimension to them with his skilful renditions.”

lethbridgestewart_03“The fans asked, and we listened,” says Andy Frankham-Allen, editor of the Lethbridge-Stewart range and author of The Forgotten Son. “It’s a real delight to hear Terry Molloy bring the book, and indeed the characters, to life. Even though I wrote the first book, I found myself listening and wondering what was going to happen next. Such is the power of Terry’s rich performance.”

All four audiobook titles are now available for pre-order directly from Fanton Films. £18.99 in the UK, and £22.99 overseas for the individual titles, with bundles at £60.00 for the UK and £75.00 for overseas. (Four titles for the price of three!) All prices include P&P. Order from:

http://www.fantomfilms.co.uk/audiobooks/fiction/lethbridge01.htm

lethbridgestewart_04The four titles are still available in paperback form directly from Candy Jar Books. Also available for pre-order are the series two titles; Moon Blink by Sadie Miller, The Showstoppers by Jonathan Cooper and The Grandfather Infestation by John Peel (released April, May and June 2016, respectively). The usual discounted pre-order bundles are on offer from Candy Jar, with a new subscription deal for those wishing to get series two and three together. Six titles in all, for the price of five:

http://www.candy-jar.co.uk/books/moonblink.html

Author: Andy Frankham-Allen

Stephen King, in the introduction to the 2005 re-issue of ‘Salem’s Lot wrote, ‘Writing controlled fiction is called “plotting”. Buckling your seatbelt and letting the story take over, however… that is called “storytelling”. Storytelling is as natural as breathing; plotting is the literary version of artificial respiration’, and that pretty much sums up Andy’s own brand of writing. His stories have plots, but they are plots that evolve from the characters, plots that develop as the characters do once a key idea is conceived. He has written several novels in the Space: 1889 & Beyond series, and short stories for Big Finish’s official Doctor Who anthologies, as well as many short stories published by Untreed Reads and was editor of Pantechnicon eZine which he co-founded with Trudi Topham in 2007. In 2013 he wrote the ultimate guide to the Companions of Doctor Who for Candy Jar Books, which won rave reviews from Doctor Who Magazine (“Frankham-Allen’s style is engaging and enthusiastic, maintaining a pacey discourse throughout when it would have been easy to just provide a droning list… As the role of the companion continues to grow and develop within Doctor Who, on screen and off, there’s a sense that this is just the beginning of a work that is ripe for updating in a few year’s time. Let’s hope that Andy Frankham-allen is already working on volume two.”) and other science fiction magazines. His magnum opus, The Garden, remains incomplete with only the first of four books released. However, until vampires become in vogue again and a mainstream publisher wishes to pick it up, he feels that Seeker will remain an orphan. His favourite contemporary authors are John Connolly, Karin Slaughter and John Ajvide Lindqvist, and his favourite genre authors are HG Wells, John Wyndham and Stephen King. His favourite television shows are Supernatural and Doctor Who (1963-1989) with various other shows vying for third place, including The 4400, Battlestar Galactica (remake), Dollhouse, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and countless others. His musical tastes vary a lot, and he enjoys everything from metal to classical. He’s a bit of a comic fan, or was when younger, and loves almost every single Marvel film made, and a few DC (but can’t stand the work of Christopher Nolan). But most of all he loves with a passion The Transformers (although he always stresses at this point that he’s referring to the original comics that began in 1984 and not the modern iterations thereof). When asked why he became a writer, he explains, ‘I was always going to become one of three things. Either a singer, a dancer or a writer. I can only sing well when in the shower, or drunk, a serious ankle injury in 1996 put paid to any serious dreams of dancing (although I can still move on a dance floor, don’t you worry), and so I was left with writing.’