To welcome in the New Year, Candy Jar Books is giving readers a special PDF featuring extracts from two Doctor Who non-fiction books — available to download, completely free!

The free PDF includes an extract from the Doctor Who Christmas Specials book, edited by Baz and Ben Greenland, focusing on the Thirteenth Doctor story, Revolution of the Daleks. The extract is written by Verity Russell. The new tome includes fascinating interviews with Christmas special directors — Farren Blackburn (The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe); Saul Metzstein (The Snowmen); Paul Wilmshurst (Last Christmas); and Douglas MacKinnon (The Husbands of River Song) — alongside guides to the festive episodes and analysis of each.

The download also includes a section from my book, Companions: More Than Sixty Years of Doctor Who Assistants, about Fifteenth Doctor companion, Ruby Sunday, played by Millie Gibson. The chapter ends with the events of Empire of Death, as Companions came out earlier last year, before Series 15 aired.

Companions: More Than Sixty Years of Doctor Who Assistants is a 700-page guide to everything from Ian and Barbara joining the First Doctor and Susan in the TARDIS, to Anita Benn spending a year with the Doctor in Joy to the World.

What’s more, Candy Jar Books now has a sale on, so you can get a load of fiction and non-fiction books at discounted prices.

You can download the extract by clicking here; it’ll open in a new tab in your browser, where you can also save it to your device if you wish.

And don’t forget that you can read further extracts from Candy Jar Books, and further read the Doctor Who Companion Annual — again, all completely free!

Happy New Year, folks.