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Obverse Books
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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 using any form of AI.
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It says it right there in the books:
No Form of AI has been used in the creation of this book.
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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With a cover by Cody Schell, using Blair Bidmead's splendid crystal icon!
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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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.
September 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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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.
September 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Well, Goldsboro Books seems pretty sure that these new US tariffs will not impact books, except by causing the current delays.

Fingers crossed!
August 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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In stock now, and don't they look lovely!

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With equally lovely writing by @purserhallard.com, @paulmagrs.bsky.social, @dalesmithonline.com, @stevecolewriter.bsky.social, @twilightstreets.bsky.social, @steffanalun.bsky.social and many others!
PARTY LIKE IT'S 1998 and OF THE CITY OF THE SAVED - the latest books from Obverse Books, now in stock.
August 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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You've spelled 'aping Reform' very oddly there.

This is you, isn't it?
August 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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So, Obverse will be at Whooverville at the end of the month - our first ever proper convention, our first ever panel and my first ever Obverse stall.

Do pop by and say hello if you can! I'll be the one swearing in Scottish & sweating in terror at having to speak in public.
August 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Samantha Jones…Faction Paradox…the Amnesiac Doctor…Sabbath…Iris Wildthyme…Compassion…President Romana…

Come with us to 1998, where there’s a party still going on… Meet old friends and new in a treasury of tales celebrating the most joyful of all the Doctors Who.

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The cover of PARTY LIKE IT'S 1998.
June 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Look what arrived while we were off in Morocco!

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A pile of Castrovalvas!
June 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Available to pre-order now - published 7 June - Black Archive 77 - Castrovalva by @andreworton.bsky.social!

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The cover to Black Archive 77 - Castrovalva, showing ionic style columns turned into an abstract image, maroon on black.
May 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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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!

#factionparadox #doctorwho

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The book cover, showing a man with a chameleon head, holding an elongated skull, with a futuristic city in the background. Original painting by Lawrence Burton. Cover design by Cody Schell.
April 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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New cover and title for the first ever Paradise Towers novel (written by @dalesmithonline.com, cover by Cody Schell).

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New cover to the Paradise Towers novel, now called AS A KANG SHOULD BE
March 31, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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New cover and title!
New cover to AS A KANG SHOULD BE!
March 31, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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The end has been prepared for and all that - but not for the @blackarchive.co.uk, which reaches volume 76 with alook at Baker's final story, Logopolis - the first part of a two-part Archive investigation of the Baker-Davison regeneration.

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The cover to Black Archive 76 - Logopolis - showing an abstract image made up of overlapping TARDISes on a purple background in the top 2/3rds, with the same image against a black background in the bottom third.
March 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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What's this then? A first ever Paradise Towers novel? By Dale Smith, of Doctor Who, Faction Paradox...really, all sorts of things...fame? With a sparkly new cover by Cody Schell?

How can you resist?

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The cover to PARADISE / TOWERS, the new novel from Obverse Books, showing stylised red and yellow shapes against a green background, with black and yellow dots running across the bottom. Intriguing, eh?
March 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Feel free to order books - we'd love it if you did! - but they won't be posted out now until after Christmas!
The cast of the TV series Ace of Wands enjoying a nice cup of tea.
December 20, 2024 at 10:20 AM
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The cover to Black Archive 74 - A Christmas Carol, showing a shark against a dark background with, above that, a Christmas tree with baubles, made up of manipulated versions of the gills and eyes of the shark.
December 19, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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The Cushingverse books (image courtesy of David X Brunt)

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14 books featuring the Peter Cushing Dr Who.
December 14, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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Looking for a Christmas present for that Doctor Who fan in your life?
What about this lovely double bill, in stock now!

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Two Doctor Who related books - Black Archive 74: A Christmas Carol by Jamie Beckwith and Leslie Grace McMurtry and Dr Who: The Six Doctors, ostensibly by Robin Bland. On a background of a brown kitchen bunker, which I wiped clean of cake crumbs specially.
December 6, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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Why wait for Big Finish? :)
The cover to THE SIX DOCTORS, as Cushing Dr Who charity book from Obverse books, showing the outline of a Cyberman against a back drop of six Tardises, one of which has an open door with a figure standing in it.
November 30, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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New Cushing for Christmas!

It's freezing outside in Scotland just now - even more than usual, no time for rough sleeping. All profits from this book will go to help the homeless in Edinburgh and Dundee.

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November 29, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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Every book we've done with the enormously talented and lovely @paulmagrs.bsky.social - more than I thought!
A collection of books published by Obverse Books and written or edited by Paul Magrs.
November 13, 2024 at 11:32 AM
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A second Classic series Black Archive bundle has just been released, with books by @cooraysmith.bsky.social, @unamccormack.bsky.social, @matthewkilburn.bsky.social, @ianzpotter.bsky.social and half a dozen others!

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November 10, 2024 at 10:53 AM
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From a Story By…

The first paperback fanzine of essays on tie-in fiction! Star Trek, the Monkees, Doctor Who, Man from Uncle, BSG, Carry On movies and much more...

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November 8, 2024 at 10:33 AM