SHIPPING TO AMERICA – Updated 3 September 2025 27th August, 2025 - 3 September 2025 Further to the note about USA shipping, the Royal Mail has now added a ‘Duty’ calculator to their website and this shows that it seems there is no additional duty to send books, just an ‘admin fee’ that the Royal Mail are adding to every shipment to the USA. So we have […]
BOOK UPDATE – 04/03/2025 4th March, 2025 - Sadly on the printing of EVOLUTION OF THE TOY DALEK there was an error which meant that the whole run had to be scrapped and re-done. We are now expecting copies to arrive with us around the 11 March. The same day is when copies of THE FANTASTIC ART OF RON TURNER are arriving … […]
Note re Credit Card Payments 21st November, 2024 - Telos has been hit this last week by a great many ‘failed’ orders, all originating from many gmail accounts. We believe these are all trying to verify credit/debit card details by some unknown third party. We temporarily blocked orders originating from gmail.com from the site but this made no difference … So we have had […]
CHRISTMAS 2024 2nd November, 2024 - As promised, a post about Christmas 2024 … Telos is entirely run by about 4 people – we’re not like Amazon and don’t have hundreds of little elves running around and packing books and then delivering them to your door in minutes … we need to work around people’s real lives … and so in […]
Note re Overseas Orders for the Cowboy Bebop book 15th September, 2024 - IMPORTANT NOTE: We have seen that most of the orders for the Cowboy Bebop book are coming from the USA, and standard shipping from the UK is very expensive. Therefore we have decided to change the distribution pattern for this title, so that the shipping costs are much less. The books will be supplied and […]
New Biography of Ron Turner announced 16th July, 2024 - Telos Publishing Ltd are delighted to announce that they have secured World English language rights to a new lavish coffee-table-style hardback biography of the artist Ron Turner, written by John Lawrence. The deal was struck by Stephen James Walker from Telos Publishing with Lawrence’s literary agent Philip Harbottle. Artist Ron Turner (1922-1998) was a British […]
Terror Tales of Chaos – coming in 2025 22nd April, 2024 - Paul Finch, editor of the Terror Tales series, has a big new blog today in which he explains why there’ll be no TERROR TALES anthology this year, but also how he and Telos Publishing intend to make up for it next year with a special bumper volume, which is going to go heavy – very […]
Making of The Descent 4th April, 2024 - Absolutely 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, coffee table hardbacks … More […]
Memories of Firebird 25th November, 2023 - Coming 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, The Sentinel and Virus to […]
The Doctor Who Production Guide: Hartnell – Publication Delay 8th October, 2023 - IMPORTANT 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 best efforts, it’s just not […]News Update – 28/07/23 28th July, 2023 - A 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 of orders from pretty much […]
News Update – 18 May 2023 18th May, 2023 - A 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 the pre-orders out as soon […]
TELOS HEADS INTO SPACE AND BACK IN TIME! 5th December, 2022 - 2023 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, has announced an impressive publishing […]
Christmas 2022 – Update 2nd December, 2022 - As 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 December 2022 are as follows: […]
Royal Mail Strikes 3rd October, 2022 - Folks 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 2022 and Saturday 1 October […]
Telos Break 11th September, 2022 - Everyone 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.
DELAY ON JOHN NATHAN-TURNER PRODUCTION DIARY 27th April, 2022 - This 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 John’s death on 1 May, […]
Shipping Update – 4 February 2022 4th February, 2022 - A 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 … so it is being replaced […]
TELOS HEADS INTO SPACE AND BACK IN TIME! 26th January, 2022 - Telos 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 worlds of Gerry and Sylvia […]
Shipping Update – 16 January 2022 16th January, 2022 - Copies 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 before Christmas! David and Sam […]
SHIPPING UPDATE – 1 January 2022 1st January, 2022 - A 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 around the 21st/22nd Dec 1st […]
Update and Happy Christmas! Tuesday 21 December 21st December, 2021 - We 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 the remaining UK orders. We […]
SHIPPING UPDATE – Monday 20 December 20th December, 2021 - So 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 how far we can get, […]
SHIPPING UPDATE – 15 December 16th December, 2021 - Update 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 mail any more copies out! […]
FURTHER SHIPPING UPDATE – 12th December 13th December, 2021 - Shipping 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 Prime) 🙂 The massive pack […]
SHIPPING UPDATE – 12th December 10th December, 2021 - Good 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, these are being packed and […]
SHIPPING FOR CHRISTMAS 2021 7th December, 2021 - Quick 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 is probably the last opportunity […]
UPDATE ON DECEMBER TITLES 2nd December, 2021 - THE 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 weekend … the books were […]
MORE CLASSIC HARDBOILED CRIME FROM TELOS 23rd October, 2021 - By 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 court cases for their content […]Telos Despatch 6th June, 2021 - Due 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.