TELOS NEWS

Making of The Descent 4th April, 2024Absolutely delighted that Telos has signed contracts today to publish a new book looking at the making of the amazing horror film THE DESCENT … which celebrates its 20th Anniversary in 2025. Written by Janine Pipe and Neil Marshall, the book will be one of our full colour, large format,

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Memories of Firebird 25th November, 2023Coming in 2024 is a new book looking at the history and games produced by Firebird Software. In 1984, telecommunications giant British Telecom decided to enter the fray and become a computer games publisher, creating Firebird Software. Firebird produced almost 250 different titles, with classic games including Booty, Thrust, Elite,

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The Doctor Who Production Guide: Hartnell – Publication Delay 8th October, 2023IMPORTANT NOTICE: To customers who have been eagerly awaiting the release of The Doctor Who Production Diary: The Hartnell Years: We have been struggling on the pre-prod edit of the book hoping that we might be able to have it ready for November this year, but, sadly, despite all our

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News Update – 28/07/23 28th July, 2023A book update! Copies of Andrew-Mark Thompson’s THIS IS A FAKE! arrived early, and all the pre-orders have now been despatched. Despite many mentions and warnings online, people still didn’t pre-order and so we ended up running out of the free cardset and album early due to a heavy rush

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News Update – 18 May 2023 18th May, 2023A few things to announce … it’s been a busy time here at Telos Towers! Firstly, the new, expanded, revised and updated edition of STILL THE BEAST IS FEEDING, now celebrating FIFTY years of ROCKY HORROR should be arriving with us tomorrow (Friday 19 May), and we’ll be sending all

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TELOS HEADS INTO SPACE AND BACK IN TIME! 5th December, 20222023 is the sixtieth anniversary of DOCTOR WHO, the BBC’s flagship time-travel series, set to return with Russell T Davies at the helm, and David Tennant returning for a further stint as the Doctor! Telos Publishing, who have long been praised for their exemplary unofficial DOCTOR WHO books and guides,

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Christmas 2022 – Update 2nd December, 2022As usual we here at Telos Towers will be endeavouring to get books out to customers in time for Christmas, but we are at the mercy of: a) The Royal Mail Strikes b) Amazon’s expected delivery times for Print on Demand titles The Royal Mail strikes in the UK for

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Royal Mail Strikes 3rd October, 2022Folks in the UK might be aware that the Royal Mail are striking for better pay and job security at present and this is likely to affect books ordered directly from Telos. Details of the strike days can be found here: https://www.royalmail.com/latest-news Currently the following are planned: Friday 30 September

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Telos Break 11th September, 2022Everyone needs a holiday, and Telos is taking a couple of weeks off from 11th September to 25th September 2022 … No orders placed through the site will be actioned in this time … We’ll be back to catch up with everything at the end of September.

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DELAY ON JOHN NATHAN-TURNER PRODUCTION DIARY 27th April, 2022This is to advise that the publication date for THE JOHN NATHAN-TURNER PRODUCTION GUIDE has had to be put back from the 1 May to the 13 May due to a delay at the printers in getting copies to us. We had hoped to have copies for the anniversary of

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Shipping Update – 4 February 2022 4th February, 2022A quick note to advise that we have again found issues and delays when ordering new packing materials to send out titles ordered … a shipment ordered two weeks ago failed to arrive last week, and when chased this week we found that the supplier had ‘lost’ the order …

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TELOS HEADS INTO SPACE AND BACK IN TIME! 26th January, 2022Telos Publishing has announced four new titles for Spring 2022 which continue the publisher’s unrivalled coverage of all things Science Fiction, and which also delve into the often hilarious world of seventies martial arts film! 18 MARCH sees publication of two books which further discussion and exploration of the many

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Shipping Update – 16 January 2022 16th January, 2022Copies of Telos’ new book, THE WHO ADVENTURES went out just before Christmas, following a 4 week delay on shipping and a 2 week delay on then getting the books to us – we wanted to get them out end of November, but it ended up being literally the week

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SHIPPING UPDATE – 1 January 2022 1st January, 2022A quick note regarding the orders for THE WHO ADVENTURES. We are starting to get deluged with people querying where their copies are … Please note that the first batch of copies were sent on or around the 14th/15th Dec 2nd Class, and the second batch was sent on or

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Update and Happy Christmas! Tuesday 21 December 21st December, 2021We did it! With an amazing push by Sam and myself we have managed to get through all the orders of THE WHO ADVENTURES received up to this morning, and Sam is now off to the Post Office with 12 or so more sacks of packages for despatch. These are

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SHIPPING UPDATE – Monday 20 December 20th December, 2021So the awaited packaging arrived first thing this morning, so we have set to and so far have managed to get something like 22 sacks of packages down to the Post Office today … we’ll continue packing today and then take more tomorrow morning, continuing the packing tomorrow to see

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SHIPPING UPDATE – 15 December 16th December, 2021Update as of end of day Wednesday (15th Dec) … We have managed to get to order 11161 (which is the next to do) but unfortunately, we have run out of the card outers for the packing … which means that until the supplier delivers some more … we can’t

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FURTHER SHIPPING UPDATE – 12th December 13th December, 2021Shipping update: The POD system is now showing dates in January for delivery … so unless we have the books actually in stock, you are unlikely to receive copies before Christmas. We suggest trying Amazon where you live as they may be able to despatch next day (if you have

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SHIPPING UPDATE – 12th December 10th December, 2021Good news! We have finally received the stocks of the hardback books … Four pallets full of them! So David and Sam are now beavering away, in between other work and jobs, to get them packed and mailed out. Because there are a lot of orders for THE WHO ADVENTURES,

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SHIPPING FOR CHRISTMAS 2021 7th December, 2021Quick note on shipping of books to arrive prior to Christmas … While we have stocks of some titles available to send immediately, the titles we have on the Print on Demand systems are currently showing as a delivery date of around 20 December …So this means that this week

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UPDATE ON DECEMBER TITLES 2nd December, 2021THE WHO ADVENTURES THE ART OF LOUIS SHABNER HANK JANSON UNDER COVER As you know, we were expecting our three December hardbacks to arrive from the printers in India in time for December …BUT – the ship was delayed by a couple of weeks, and only arrived in port last

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MORE CLASSIC HARDBOILED CRIME FROM TELOS 23rd October, 2021By popular demand, Telos Publishing is reprinting two more of the classic pulp ‘hardboiled’ Hank Janson detective novels from the 50s. Written by and starring the Chicago Chronicle reporter Hank Janson, the books sold in their millions back in the day, and were also subject to various ‘obscenity’ trials and

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Telos Despatch 6th June, 2021Due to personal reasons, Telos won’t be able to despatch any orders from now (6/6/2021) until the end of June 2021. We will do our best to catch up and sort whatever is outstanding as soon as we can … Apologies to anyone who orders during this period.

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Overseas Shipping 30th March, 2021As we are now able to get back to the Post Office for shipping, and as the various challenges posed by Brexit and the Covid 19 Pandemic seem to be easing, we have reactivated overseas shipping on the site … Postal Rates are also now back to the published Post

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IMPORTANT NOTE RE SHIPPING 11th February, 2021As I’m sure it has not passed customers by, that the enactment of Brexit, combined with changes in 2020 to USA internal and international shipping arrangements, has meant that we have seen shipping costs for titles being sent outside of the UK soar beyond anything which most people would consider

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More Despatch Delays 30th December, 2020With the news today that Lincolnshire is heading into Covid Tier 4 from midnight tonight, this will again impact on our ability to get books out to the Post Office for despatch.All we can do is apologise, and promise that orders will be sent as soon as we are able

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Increase in USA Shipping Costs 1st July, 2020We regret to inform customers in the USA that from today (1 July 2020), the Royal Mail has substantially increased prices for International Standard Shipping to the USA – which is what Telos tends to use.The prices have increased due to various factors which are discussed in the article here:https://www.theamerican.co.uk/pr/ne-US-Mailing-Price-Rises-July-1Unfortunately

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New Title Announcement 30th June, 2020Telos Publishing is delighted to announce that we have signed Dylan Rees to pen the first official book reviewing the Doctor Who and cult tv output of Reeltime Pictures Ltd. With the enthusiastic agreement and support of Keith Barnfather of Reeltime, the book will cover the extensive ‘Myth Makers’ interview

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Christmas 2019 19th December, 2019It’s Thursday 19th December 2019, and tomorrow is the last day of posting for items to stand any chance at all of arriving in time for Christmas! So if you have any Telosian needs, then please get your orders in today at the latest … anything that arrives tomorrow we

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Direct Sales to Australia 12th March, 2019Due to the Australian government implementing new rules around imports, we are currently unable to ship a large percentage of our titles to Australia. There is nothing we can do about this unfortunately, and so for the moment we have disabled ‘Australia’ from the list of countries we can supply

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