The Doctor Who Appreciation Society has released its tenth Celestial Toyroom Annual.
Previous editions looked at a specific Doctor’s era, and so the 2026 Annual celebrates the Fifth Doctor, played by Peter Davison. The annual includes story critiques, features, an interview, and fiction, with contributions from Andrew Skilleter, Colin Howard, Andy Lambert, Paul Scoones, Doctor Who Monthly, and more.
There’s also an addendum to the main Annual: three stories featuring the Fifth Doctor for download only.
The Celestial Toyroom Annual 2026 is a full-colour, A4, 178-page print-on-demand publication, available through Lulu as both a hardback and paperback. The printing of orders that Lulu receives are carried out locally to where the order is made from and are then despatched from that printer.
Or you can simply get the free downloadable PDF!
To term it an “Annual” undersells this – it’s actually a hefty 175-page book! And having just received my hardback and paperback copies of this edition, I wanted to put my full support and praise for this launch by DWAS, as not only are their Annuals always a benchmark for quality publications and top drawer content, but this 2026 edition sees them return to actual physical publishing for the first time in a few years…
Previous physical copies of the Annual have been very expensive, small hardback format. For 2026, though, the Society has partnered with Lulu for print-on-demand, and the format and the reproduction quality of the finished product rivals anything that Telos Publishing or Candy Jar Publishing has released! I had no idea Lulu could publish to that high a standard, but this edition of Celestial Toyroom is printed on glossy paper, with pin-sharp full-colour image reproduction, and in a hardback or softback format that surely will redefine where small-press and fan publishing is headed in the years ahead.
Astonishingly, the hardback edition is just £17.05, which, for a book of this size, format, and quality, is an absolute gold-plated bargain today. The softback edition is every bit as good a quality as the hardback, however, and is priced just £10.42 — for an A4-sized 175-page image-heavy book, you simply won’t find anything close to being this cheap and fan-friendly! I don’t know how they are doing it. But I commend them fully for it.
A gift to Doctor Who fandom for Christmas, from the Doctor Who Appreciation Society.
The Celestial Toyroom Annual 2026 is edited by Bruce Nicholson and designed by Paul MC Smith of wonderfulbooks.co.uk, with front cover artwork by Carolyn Edwards.
[Note from editor: And don’t forget that the DWC will be giving away a free annual to download this Christmas too, as we have done for numerous years now.]
