Andy Frankham-Allen Lethbridge-Stewart Book Signing

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Andy Frankham-Allen, author of The Forgotten Son and Companions: Fifty Years of Doctor Who Assistants, will host a signing of his work in Cardiff’s Forbidden Planet (Duke Street) at 3pm on the 8th August 2015, coinciding with the launch of The Candy Jar Book festival, also in the city.

An in-depth account of each Doctor Who companion, Companions is the definitive reference guide to the Doctor’s assistants, covering the TV series as well as other media. The Forgotten Son, meanwhile, is the first instalment in the official, fully-licensed further adventures of the Doctor’s favourite companion, Brigadier Sir Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart.

Lethbridge-Stewart has been an essential part of the Doctor Who universe since 1968. He was created by authors Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln for the six-part Doctor Who serial The Web of Fear. Originally intended as a one-off character, over a year later he was brought back to Doctor Who, promoted to Brigadier and made the head of UNIT. Forty-six years on and the Brigadier has become one of the show’s most iconic characters, having appeared with ten different Doctors in countless TV episodes, books, audio dramas and comic strips. Fully licensed by the Executor of the Haisman Literary Estate, Mervyn Haisman’s granddaughter Hannah Haisman, and endorsed by Henry Lincoln, Candy Jar’s Lethbridge-Stewart series is the official account of the Brigadier’s life and adventures in the periods between his encounters with the Doctor.

Given Cardiff’s status not only as the capital of all things Who, but as Andy’s hometown, the city was the obvious choice to host this signing. Andy has been a Doctor Who fan since his childhood and serves as line editor for the Lethbridge-Stewart series, as well as penning the opening novel. He is the former line editor of Untreed Reads Publishing’s series Space: 1889 & Beyond, and has penned several Doctor WhoShort Trip stories for Big Finish, as well as the two titles he will be signing at this event.

For further details, please visit the Candy Jar website: www.candyjarbooks.co.uk

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