For the next four days, Good Friday through to Easter Monday, you can download for FREE the first chapter of the forthcoming novel, Lethbridge-Stewart: The New Unusual by Adrian Sherlock & Andy Frankham-Allen.
Eggs are at the centre of The New Unusual, and it was hoped advanced copies of the book would be available in time for Easter. Alas, it was not possible, so instead Candy Jar is offering up the first chapter as a special gift to their readers – a taste of what’s to come next Month!
Candy Jar Books is pleased to announce that the latest titles in its Lethbridge-Stewart range of novels are now available for pre-order!
Range Editor Andy Frankham-Allen says: “It’s quite an exciting series, with three very distinctively different stories. Each explores very different aspects of the Lethbridge-Stewart universe. A New-Age thriller taking the team to Australia, a ghost story set in and around a haunted manor, and an all-out adventure which pits varied branches of Lethbridge-Stewart’s family against each other.”
Artwork by Adrian Salmon
Series five opens with The New Unusual by first-time novelist, Adrian Sherlock, who wrote the short story, The Playing Dead, in 2016. Andy Frankham-Allen has come aboard as co-writer for this novel.
The New Unusual sees our heroes being drawn to Australia after investigating strange goings-on at dream-ins, mysterious new age gatherings in which people explore their deepest desires through eggs of alien origin. This book features the return of Lethbridge-Stewart’s nephew, Owain.
Cover art by Richard Young
It is followed by A Very Private Haunting by Sharon Bidwell, who is no stranger to writing novels, with quite a CV behind her, including the Lethbridge-Stewart short story, The Wishing Bazaar in 2016.
A Very Private Haunting sees Arthur Penrose finally take ownership of a Scottish manor house that’s been in his family for generations. There are many secrets in the house, but what connects them to the mysterious shadow creatures that Lethbridge-Stewart and his men are investigating?
Cover art by Colin Howard
The series is wrapped off with The Man from Yesterday, by popular novelist Nick Walters, who returns with his much-anticipated second novel in the Lethbridge-Stewart series, following 2015’s Mutually Assured Domination.
The Man from Yesterday sees Lethbridge-Stewart solve a mystery that has followed him his entire adult life: what happened to his father at the end of World War II? When aliens arrive on Earth from a mysterious region of space known only as the Realm, the answers come thick and fast. This book features the return of Lethbridge-Stewart’s brother from another reality, James Gore, and his father, Air Commander Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart!
Andy continues: “This series of books sees our lead characters, in particular Lethbridge-Stewart and Anne Travers, dealing with the fallout from the losses they suffered in series four. The series ends on something of a cliffhanger, which will have repercussions for the series as a whole for a long time.”
Head of Publishing Shaun Russell says: “Series five is the last in the ongoing series for a while, as next year we’re stepping out of the usual narrative to present a special series of novels celebrating fifty years of Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart and Anne Travers.”
The New Unusual, A Very Private Haunting and The Man from Yesterday are all available for individual pre-order now, for £8.99 (+ p&p). Or you can pre-order them as part of the discounted UK bundle for only £26.25 (including postage), saving £9.72, or an international bundle for only £45.00 (including postage), saving £5.97. Or, you can buy it as part of our yearly subscription offer. Order early to avoid disappointment.
Happy Easter!
In other news, the latest novel, *The Man from Yesterday by Nick Walters, has started shipping! Keep those ears peeled for the sound of the postman!
