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www.obversebooks.co.uk www.blackarchive.co.uk Only publisher ever to publish books on the Radiophonic Workshop, Edinburgh at night, Gurney Slade and that Typhoo Tea Doctor Who book. Never published a book in Arial or used any form of AI in one.

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Obverse Books@obversebooks· 4d

The three Midnight Folk novelisations of early New Who Xmas Specials. More than one reviewer was kind enough to call them the best novelisations of the stories, and I agree.

Three novels on a black background - THE CHRISTMAS BRIDE, THE CHRISTMAS VOYAGE and THE INVASION OF CHRISTMAS.

Obverse Books@obversebooks· 4d

The Sacrificial Pawn, the other side of the tete-beche book (it's TWO books in one, regardless of what fat fingered me posted in the last reply). George and Paul in one volume make for a formidable pairing!

Obverse Books@obversebooks· 4d

Part of a tete-beche book (one books in one, with each book upside down compared to the other), THE DREADFUL FLAP, this one got mentioned in the The Guardian no less!

An orange book cover, with a photgraph of Panda on it.

Obverse Books@obversebooks· 4d

The Newbury and Hobbes Annual 2013 - me and @georgemann.bsky.social messing about making an annual based on our memories of the ones we loved as kids, with cut-out figures, board games and stories.

Obverse Books@obversebooks· 4d

The Targets For... books. Really proud of everyone involved in creating these, even if the reason was incredibly sad. Tommy and Antoni were lovely, lovely people and are still hugely missed.

Four book covers, two Targets for Tommy and the two variant covers of A Target for Antoni.

Obverse Books@obversebooks· 4d

THE CURSE OF FANFIC - edited by Paul Castle, raising money for charity by crossing over various genre tv shows in new stories.

The cover to a book showing robots and alien face huggers.

Obverse Books@obversebooks· 4d

The original cover to Iris Wildthyme and the Polythene Terror by @paulmagrs.bsky.social - from the days before Cody decided we needed a better template for Iris' New Adventures.

A book with a yellow cover, with three circles cut out from a central area, showing Panda, the number 22 and three shambling polythene figures.

Obverse Books@obversebooks· 12d

A lovely closing summary from an excellent review of Ollie Wake's Black Archive on THE DALEKS in Celestial Toyroom #557. Available in paperback and ebook at obversebooks.co.uk/product/82-t...

I've watched this adventure more times than I can count, but Wake's book made me want to watch it all over again. When I do, I know that I will enjoy it all the more because I have now read this book.

Obverse Books@obversebooks· 14d

Oddly, in spite of having considerably fewer employees than Sony (we have one - me; Sony have more than one), if you bought an ebook from Obverse when we opened our doors 18 years ago, we guarantee you will still have a copy today (just drop me a line with your order number if you can't find it!)

A hell site exchange between some rightly complaining that he turned on his PS3 after ten years on non-use and Sony had deleted all the games he paid for back in the day, and an idiot replying, apparently under the impression that was fine and - presumably - that purchases from Sony are on a temporary ownership basis.

Obverse Books@obversebooks· 19d

Blakes 7 Silver Archives can go in all sorts of directions...quite a lot of them a wee bit on the bleak side...

A selection of books - Kafka's THE TRIAL, Foucault's DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH, Hobbes LEVIATHAN, Arendt's THE ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM and Bentham's PANTOPTICON.

Obverse Books@obversebooks· Jul 6

A Silver Archive on Robin of Sherwood, you say? Don't mind if I do...

The Silver Archive #12 - ROBIN OF SHERWOOD: Herne's Son.

Obverse Books@obversebooks· Jun 7

In paperback for the first time, a new, revised edition of Stewart Sheargold THE BLUE LANDSCAPE AND OTHER STORIES, first published by Manleigh Books as an ebook way back in 2012! obversebooks.co.uk/product/blue...

The cover of THE BLUE LANDSCAPE, showing a male torso coloured blue, with white waving lines across it as might be seen on an Ordnance Survey map. The title of the book is to the top right in white, capitalised, and the author's name to bottom right in sentence case.

Obverse Books@obversebooks· Jun 2

Available for pre-order now - Black Archive 83: THE WEB PLANET, in which Brigid Cherry considers what has been described as the strangest classic Doctor Who sotry - and certainly the one with the best credit. obversebooks.co.uk/product/83-t...

End credit reading 'Insect movement by ROSLYN DE WINTER'

Obverse Books@obversebooks· May 12

In stock now - and doesn't it look brilliant! AN ADVENTURE IN SPACE AND TIME by @rolinsond.bsky.social obversebooks.co.uk/product/an-a...

A stack of copies of the Black Archive Special - AN ADVENTURE IN SPACE AND TIME by David Rolinson

Obverse Books@obversebooks· Mar 12

That's us closed for our holidays - feel free to order books - please do, in fact! - but we won't be able to send them out until early April!

A screengrab from the titles to the pretty rubbish movie HOLIDAYS ON THE BUSES.

Our holiday will be better and feature fewer Olives.

Obverse Books@obversebooks· Feb 25

The latest Black Archives are now on Lulu! www.lulu.com/spotlight/ob...

Covers of the last four Black Archives - The Mysterious Planet, The Devil's Chord,n Mawdryn Udead.

Obverse Books@obversebooks· Feb 5

After a six year gap. we finally have a new Iris Wildthyme New Adventure novel out! NOBODY’S SWEETHEART NOW by Dale Smith is the Who/Goodnight Sweetheart crossover - sort of, not really! - that we're convinced the world has long been waiting for! obversebooks.co.uk/product/the-...

The cover to the book, showing a cartoon of Iris' bus against a blue background with a speech bubble saying 'Drink gin and carry on'

Obverse Books@obversebooks· Jan 29

Really lovely letter from Social Bite (annoyingly still on the child porn site but not on here) thanking us for our pre-Xmas donation. And thanks for us all too, to everyone who bought the last Cushing book!

A letter from Social Bite thanking Obverse for their donation to their Christmas funds (money for which donation was raised by selling copies of THE DEADLY SNOWS).

Obverse Books@obversebooks· Jan 19

My goodness, what could this be? #comingsoon #booksky

The frontispiece for a new book, reading 'Iris Wildthyme: Nobody's Sweetheart Now' with the name 'Dale Smith' underneath.

Obverse Books@obversebooks· Jan 8

STARDUST & SNOW, the book which inspired the wonderful new David Bowie play THE GOBLIN KING AND ME by Paul Magrs is available from Obverse. obversebooks.co.uk/product/star... (and you can listen to THE GOBLIN KING AND ME on Radio 4!)

The cover STARDUST & SNOW, a painting by David Bowie of the Goblin King against a starry blue background.

Obverse Books@obversebooks· Jan 2

Call for submissions! We'd like to expand the diversity of our Archive authors, and are looking for proposals for any available story from anyone meeting the criteria of being disabled or a person of colour obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive... Closing date for subs 30/06/26 Please share! #booksky

The Black Archive is a series of monographs about individual Doctor Who stories, published by Obverse Books. The editors recently ran a general call for open submissions, which we’re now following up with a specific call for book proposals from authors of colour and disabled authors.

We’re proud of the books we’ve published, and of the diversity of their authors in many respects, but we’re aware that our contributors to date have been skewed heavily, though not exclusively, towards being white and non-disabled. We’d like to change that if we can.

We want to expand the diversity of our authors in general, and will consider proposals for any available story, from anyone meeting the criteria of being disabled or a person of colour. We’ll give particular consideration to proposals from authors whose heritage or impairments might give them specific insight into a Doctor Who story – for instance, by a wheelchair-using author on Genesis of the Daleks, an author of Indian or Pakistani heritage on Demons of the Punjab, a Deaf author on The Well, a Nigerian author on The Story & the Engine, etc.

We have already published or commissioned Black Archives on many Doctor Who stories, and these are no longer available for submissions. A full list of available stories can be found here on the Obverse website.

Note: If we can do anything to make the following process more accessible for you, please contact us as soon as possible on blackarchivesubs@obversebooks.co.uk.

Obverse Books@obversebooks· Dec 30

An excellent review of Finn Clark's latest Times Mosaic book, covering the latter Tennant era (plus the 60s and 70s Dalek books!) 'I really can't recommend this book enough' Why not be like this reviewer and check the rest of the series out too! obversebooks.co.uk?s=times+mosa...

Obverse Books@obversebooks· Dec 30

Odd - I can only see a striped image too. How about this one?

Obverse Books@obversebooks· Dec 24

An image from Robins Nest, with David Kelly answering the phone and saying '"I'm terribly sorry, but Obverse are closed for Christmas and New Year. let them know you called though..."

Obverse Books@obversebooks· Nov 21

It says it right there in the books:

No Form of AI has been used in the creation of this book.

Obverse Books@obversebooks· Nov 20

With a cover by Cody Schell, using Blair Bidmead's splendid crystal icon!

Obverse Books@obversebooks· Sep 3

No tariff duties are ever due for books, even post Trump tariffs - but the Royal Mail is now charging 50p per parcel to ship to the States. And they wonder why their business is dying a death? No thanks. I'll go elsewhere.

Obverse Books@obversebooks· Sep 1

The first ever Obverse Books convention panel (photo courtesy of @signorfurioso.bsky.social)

Four people sitting on chairs on a stage with mics in front of them - Kara Dennison, Stuart Douglas, Paul Magrs and Nick Wallace.

Obverse Books@obversebooks· Aug 28

Well, Goldsboro Books seems pretty sure that these new US tariffs will not impact books, except by causing the current delays. Fingers crossed!

Obverse Books@obversebooks· Aug 20

In stock now, and don't they look lovely! obversebooks.co.uk With equally lovely writing by @purserhallard.com, @paulmagrs.bsky.social, @dalesmithonline.com, @stevecolewriter.bsky.social, @twilightstreets.bsky.social, @steffanalun.bsky.social and many others!