Iris Wildthyme Books

Iris is an enigma... She's an enigma wrapped in a mystery. With a shapeless, tasteless hat clamped to her head. She's an enigma wrapped in a mystery, with a shapeless, tasteless hat clamped her head and she's puffing on a gold-tipped black Sobranie. And she drives a big red double-decker bus, ostensibly bound for Putney Common. Except it's not. She's been to Putney Common precisely once and that was by accident. That was when she picked up Tom, who is now her best friend. Together they journey through the multiverse: boozing and fighting; righting wrongs and buggering things up again. Here, in their first exciting anthology of ludicrous adventures they meet monsters, klllers, ambassadors, insect-things, detectives, weirdos, psychics, fiends and sundry perverts.

A message to you from Panda: 'Apparently, it has been ten years since Tom's adventures aboard Iris Wildthyme's transdimensional double-decker bus. Tom has now settled into a life of writing weird and wonderful novels (his description; I call them schlocky) about his erstwhile friend in order to support himself and, of course, his best real friend, me! One small, highly intelligent and terribly sophisticated Panda. Then, one night at a book launch, there was a ruckus in the signing queue. Suddenly, the loud-mouthed floozy of the multiverse was back in his life, no our lives! I ask you, how rude is that Anyway, she embarrassed him in front of his fans and caused a punch up. Before Tom even knew it, Iris had entrusted him with her most precious possession, ridden off into the night with Robin Hood, and revealed that she was being hunted by evil forces from a higher dimension. Of course, they both needed me to save the day.' CAST: Katy Manning (Iris Wildthyme); Ortis Deley (Tom); David Benson (Panda); Ann Bryson (Mida Slike); Stephen Chance (The Head); Duncan Wisbey (Robin Hood); Lucy Beresford (Lucretia); Lizzie Hopley (Fan); Simon Guerrier (Fan).

Iris is dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. She sacrificed herself to save her best friend, Panda, then exploded inside her time-travelling bus. On Earth in the year 2108, the North Bloc and the South Bloc teeter on the edge of terrible nuclear war. The fate of the whole world rests on a not-very-good disco in Spain. One run by the dastardly alien Naxians… Iris Wildthyme is as dead as a doornail. But her new incarnation is going to have to get stuck in. Poor bloke doesn't stand a chance.

With her red London bus on course for the future, Iris runs slap-bang into the past! Materialising aboard Radio Yesterday, a space station broadcasting golden oldies to Earth's colonies, Panda finds something sinister in the air-conditioning and Iris comes face to face with her long-lost husband… (no, really!) As Iris, Panda and the crew of Radio Yesterday experience the true power of music, the evil Naxian hordes are poised to transmit a groovy message of death… to the entire galaxy!

Exiled to Earth by her mysterious superiors, Iris has been amusing herself and Panda by working for MIAOW, the Ministry for Incursions and Other Wonders. When a certain Professor Ramsbottom and his lovely assistant Audrey unearth a weird vehicle under a London railway station, Ms Wildthyme and her art critic chum are on the scene pretty sharpish. Among anachronistic skulls and crockery they discover the still-living forms of utterly perplexing, alien creatures. And, before you can say ‘Jabberwocky’ Iris and her friends are on a mind-boggling voyage into a groovy Wonderland deep, deep beneath the Earth’s crust…

What is there left to say about Iris Wildthyme –- transtemporal adventuress extraordinaire, metafictional explorer of texts and subtexts, double-decker-dwelling interstellar bag-lady, amnesia-prone political and sexual revolutionary, writer of wrongs, wronger of rights (especially copyrights), all-round champion of freedom, occasional nightclub singer and frequent bar-room floozy? Well, there's always something. A collection of brand new stories, taking the transtemporal adventuress and her trusty companion Panda all the way from snowy Darlington to the literal end of the universe (and beyond!), visiting friends old and new on the way. With an introduction by Iris' alter-ego, Katy Manning, original artwork by legendary Doctor Who artist June Hudson and new stories from Paul Magrs, Philip Purser-Hallard and Steve Cole amongst many others. There really is always something new in the headlights of Iris' trusty number 22 bus to Putney Common! Contents: * Introduction by Katy Manning * A Gamble with Wildthyme by Steve Lyons * Sovereign by Mags L Halliday * The Unhappy Medium by Mark Wright and Cavan Scott * Living Legend by Stuart Douglas * Battleship Anathema by Phil Purser-Hallard * The Dreadful Flap by Paul Magrs * Not A Drop by Steven Wickham * Iris Wildthyme y Señor Cientocinco contra Los Monstruos del Fiesta by Cody Schell * Why? Because We Like You by Jonathan Dennis * The Scarlet Shadow by Stewart Sheargold * Only Living Girls by Steve Cole

It's going to be a blue Christmas for Iris Wildthyme. Her best friend, Panda, is lost in time and space and the only festive cheer she can find is at the bottom of a glass. If that wasn't enough, this year's number one toy is trying to kill her! From a futuristic planet-sized shopping mall to the frozen wastes of the North Pole, the search for Panda leads Iris to a fiendish plot that threatens to ruin Christmas for the entire multiverse. With only a jobsworth security droid to help, Iris turns to the one man who can save the season of goodwill — Saint Nick himself. There's just one snag; Santa Claus is a broken man... With psychotic elves, exploding shoplifters and more tinsel than you can shake a bottle of Babycham at, this is going to be the Mother of all Christmases — and you're all invited!

12 years after Paul Magrs' first collection, these 12 stories take their cues from glimpses of real life, but spin into tales that are fabular, funny, moving and sometimes unsettling.

Witness a slender neck being circled by rough hands... sharp metal violently stabbing and twisting... the emerging viscous dark red liquid being guzzled greedily, lingering on lips and teeth, followed by the laughter of madness. And that's just Iris and Panda at a wine tasting! "Pass me the bottle, woman! We might as well KILL it..." THE PANDA BOOK OF HORROR will make your fur stand on end. Your blood AND your G&T will run ice cold.

TIME AND SPACE. GOOD AND EVIL. GIN AND TONIC. A novel which takes us from a dusty secondhand bookshop in Darlington, clear across the galaxy aboard a celestial double decker bus... all the way to the outlandish world of Hyspero, and the throne room of the Scarlet Empress... and the very brink of the strange pocket dimension called The Obverse. This is a story about an object - a glass jar with mysterious contests - being the focus of a chase between Iris Wildthyme, Panda, and their new friend Simon, and a bunch of gentlemen pirates of the Dogworld, who are determined to retrieve the strange jar and its even stranger contents.

The Big Crunch by Jim Mortimore Frank Reade Jr’s Electric Time Canoe by Steve Mollmann Dance of the Voodoo Valkyries by David McIntee Iris in Dead Man's Gulch by Paul Ebbs Her and Allan by Simon Bucher-Jones Running With Caesars by Geoffrey Hammell Amser Gwyllt by Steffan Alun The Bronze Door by Dale Smith Flash Rogers Conquers the Universe! by Richard Salter The Web of Terror by Iain McLaughlin The Many Lives of Zorro by Richard Wright Fantomville by Nick Campbell The Devil Wears Panda by Cody Quijano-Schell

In this volume: Iris and her various friends are stranded on the perplexing and magical world of Hyspero. Ruled over by the all-knowing and all-powerful Scarlet Empress, this is a place where seemingly anything can happen. As Iris and her faithful companion, Panda, are drawn into a nightmarish subterranean adventure, their friends are captured by the guards of the Empress herself for nefarious reasons of her own. Iris descends into memories of her bizarre childhood in a universe far from here... a dreadful place that the despicable poet Anthony Marvelle is trying to unleash, convinced that great riches lie in that mythical region known only as the Obverse... Friends old and new are along for the ride — including Barbra the brave vending machine, Jenny the ex-traffic warden and Kelly, the Goth girl from the bookshop who discovers she has a strange destiny as the mystical key to unlocking the dimensions. Hyspero itself awakens memories inside her... of a magical book she once read as a child... or, perhaps a book in which she once had her own adventures... And meanwhile on Earth — two or three dimensions to the left, in the realm of fictionality — Iris's fans and fanfic writers are gathering and quibbling at the curious turn the lady's adventures are taking...

An anthology of steampunk and alternate timeline 'retellings' and 'reimaginings' of classic fiction tales from some of today's finest steampunk writers, including Alan Baker, Adam Roberts, Lavie Tidhar and Alison Littlewood.

From the streets of Edwardian London to the corridors of a near-infinite library in the distant future, a single book holds the key to the fate of life on Earth. Some believe it predicts our future - and the apocalypse - with unnerving accuracy. Others will stop at nothing to destroy it, and will chase it from one side of the universe to the other; from a country house in the Roaring Twenties to the casinos of Mars, and from 221B Baker street to the terrifying desert world of Sisyhpus IX...1. The Archive, 2. The Adventure of the Bloomsbury Bomber, 3. The Feast of Magog, 4. Kronos Vad's History of Earth (Vol. 36,379), 5. The Lady from Callisto Rhys, 6. The Phantom Wreck. A six story collection bringing together a number of Big Finish characters and ranges together in a crossover celebration! Nicholas Briggs recently starred in Big Finish's The Judgement of Sherlock Holmes, and the BBC Drama Award nominated Frankenstein. Chase Masterson (who plays Vienna Salvatori) is a fan favourite from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Alexander Vlahos plays Dorian Gray in Big Finish's range of stories, and has recently been performing in Macbeth on Broadway. Cast: Lisa Bowerman(Bernice Summerfield), Nicholas Briggs (Sherlock Holmes), Laura Doddington(Zara), Ciara Janson(Abby), Katy Manning(Iris Wildthyme), Chase Masterson (Vienna Salvatori), Alexander Vlahos (Dorian Gray).

Join transtemporal adventuress Iris Wildthyme (Katy Manning) for a series of eight brand-new half-hour episodes as she travels through time and space aboard her trusty double-decker bus, accompanied by her new friend, Captain Turner! 1. 'Comeback of the Scorchies' by James Goss. One-hit '80s wonder Brian Bonamy is back - and he's wowing the crowds of Margate! But when Iris and Captain Turner take in the show, they quickly realise something else is behind his success...and that Iris is still under contract! 2. 'Dark Side' by Nick Campbell. Needing a break from adventuring, Iris decides to return to her former home, Pink Gables, where she is more than a little surprised to discover that unearthly forces have subsequently taken up residence. 3. 'Oracle of the Supermarket' by Roy Gill. Cassie Burdock works on the till in the local branch of Fergusons. She thinks she's nothing special, that she's just like everyone else...until one day she finds that she can predict the future with unnerving accuracy. 4. 'Murder at the Abbey' by Mark B. Oliver. After witnessing the death of one of their friends, Iris and Captain Turner turn sleuth to get to the bottom of things. But just who would want to commit such a beastly crime...and why? Wildthyme is on the case! 5. 'The Slots of Giza' by Hamish Steele. The Giza is the Hawkhead Nebula's premier casino experience: Vegas on an intergalactic scale! But when one of Iris' fellow slotters dies at her machine, she and Captain Turner quickly learn that the Giza's guests are gambling with their lives. 6. 'High Spirits' by Cavan Scott. When Iris lands the bus on the infamous Garden in the Clouds, she and Captain Turner are expecting a world of peace and tranquility. Instead they arrive on a world plagued by hauntings, where the ghosts want to lay them to rest. 7. 'An Extraterrestrial Werewolf in Belgium' by Scott Handcock. After an unexpected incident with a transdimensional entity in the 1970s, Iris makes an emergency landing in Flanders, where legends of an ancient wolflike bogeyman soon prove to be frighteningly real. 8. 'Looking for a Friend' by Paul Magrs. In a bar in central London, a strangely dressed woman reappears night after night, drowning her sorrows and searching for a friend she left behind. Directed by Scott Handcock.