Obverse Books

23/06/2025

Contents for PARTY LIKE IT'S 1998:

I Took My Shoes From San Francisco - Steve Cole
Harmony Pines - Johnstone J. McGuckian
Trespassers Will Be Executed - John Peel
Whoops - Gary Russell
The Ghost - Steve Lyons
Knocky Nine Doors - Ian Hayles
Do I Have To Do This All Over Again - Jon Blum
The Besheshra Bash - Nick Walters
Doctor Who and the Clash of Cultures - Simon Bucher-Jones
The Hearts of Cherysa - Reecy Pontiff
Other Half - Philip Purser-Hallard
5 Pointed Star - Steffan Alun
Firebright - Mags L Halliday
The Memory Tide - Jamie Griffiths
Time and the Anji - Colin Brake
We Did the Mash, we did the Hamster Mash - Andrew Hunt
The Man Who Could Not Shiver - Rylan John Cavell
On Acceptance - Dale Smith
Middle Eight - Mark Griffiths
The Flame War - Jonathan Morris
Things Will Change - Paul Magrs

22/06/2025

Remember 1998? Remember The Wilderness Years? When BBC Books told the official continuing story of Doctor Who...Sam and Fitz, Compassion, Anji and Trix, Iris Wildthyme and Faction Paradox, the Council of Eight and President Romana...

Well, Stuart Douglas and Paul Magrs thought it might be nice to revisit those glorious days, so they've put together a 'little' (375 pages!) fundraiser with twenty new stories set in the EDA universe, by the likes of Jon Blum, John Peel, Colin Brake, Andrew Hunt, Mags Halliday, Gary Russell, Jonathan Morris and Philip Purser-Hallard (and many more!)

We'll be launching the book in paperback and ebook at the end of August, but in the meantime, why not pre-order a copy?

https://obversebooks.co.uk/product/party-like-its-1998/

19/06/2025

Party like it’s 1998!

30/05/2025

Available to pre-order now - published 7 June - Black Archive 77 - Castrovalva by Andrew Orton!

https://obversebooks.co.uk/product/77-castrovalva/

30/05/2025

Only one more day to go to get your pitches in for the latest Black Archive open subs window!

BLACK ARCHIVE SUBMISSIONS: MAY 2025 BLACK ARCHIVE SUBMISSIONS: May 2025 From 1 to 31 May, The Black Archive will be open to submissions from new writers for book-length studies of individual Doctor Who TV stories from 1972 to the beginning of 1980. Please email submissions to blackarchivesubs@obvers...

23/05/2025

What would you all say to a shiny reprint of Phil Purser-Hallard's genuinely seminal FP novel,' ...Of the City of the Saved'?

With a new layout, new illustrations by Nick Hallard and some new content?

We've done six City of the Saved anthologies - now it's time that the original, as you might say, joined Obverse!

22/05/2025

Now in stock - and selling out fast!

https://obversebooks.co.uk/product/worlds-of-the-spiral-politic-rose-coloured-crosshairs/

08/05/2025

SUBMISSIONS REQUESTED!

Ever fancied writing for Obverse?

We're looking for pitches for a specific episode of a specific show for the new set of Silver Archives - specifically, the first episode of Blake's 7: THE WAY BACK.

Closing date for pitches is the end of May, usual format please - a breakdown by chapter of what you'd be looking at in the book, plus - if you've not written for us before, a sample of at least 1000 words of your writing.

Email your pitches to [email protected] with the subject 'BLAKE'.

01/05/2025

It's Indie Press Day today (and International Workers Day), so here's a code for 10% off everything except pre-orders on the Obverse website.

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28/04/2025

Samhain is one of those little snow-covered villages that look as if they haven’t changed in the last thousand years. But Iris Wildthyme has been back to the village time and time again, and every visit brings its own unique adventures. Because there is a fancy dress shop in the heart of the villa...

28/04/2025

Out now in electronic format and for pre-order in limited edition hardback - and at a sale price too!

ROSE-COLOURED CROSSHAIRS by Blair Bidmead, the latest visit to the Worlds of the Spiral Politic!

A tube train arrived at a London Underground station. Except it was not a tube train and it had not arrived at a London Underground station.