Any way to find out if a book is going to be reprinted? (the book is Tim and Tobias if anyone has any great ideas)

[Fillyjonk]

Ds is starting to read, and I think he'd love these. It is exactly his sort of thing.

BUT BUT BUT apparently they are out of print and there are no plans to reprint.

I was wondering if it is possible to contact say the publisher and find out? Would a publisher respond to a question like this? Would I speak to a minion with no idea anyway?

Thoughts please. There was a reprint but they are all sold out (have tried various websites-a few are showing as in stock but then I get an email saying...sorry)

IIRC they are Harry Potter in reading book form. But they are on abe for £60

seriously, no one knows?

bump?

I remeber reading these, and loved them, much more interesting than Kipper and co. Sorry, no real help as I imagine you have already searched on amazon (out of stock but can order, thought that doesn't mean they will ever get any in!). Bumping for you, and thank you as it has been bugging me for ages what these books were called.

Cheapest I have found was... £46, still a little excessive perhaps? Also found a copy of Billy Blue Hat for £44.44, bargain!!

Could be worth contacting the publishers, you will never know if you don't try, and perhaps you could ask why they stopped printing such a great series and replaced it with such a rubbish one which my poor dd (and I) are having to suffer through!

Best of luck with your quest.

I have it! Yay!

it was at waterstones online, I ordered it just after this thread and it is now in my hands!

they had to order it but it was (obviously) very quick

yay, it is, as I remembered, very good

what series are you struggling with, lostgirl?

tim and tobias at waterstones

I don't have any, your message reminded me of them and how much I had enjoyed them as a child and I started searching through my usual sites/shops to see if I could find any. I'm confused though (not unusual for me ), the waterstones website says that the book is 128 pages long. The ones I am thinking of were about 32 pages I though, half a page picture, half a page text. Am I on completely the wrong track and searching for something totally different??!!

ah the waterstones one is a compendium i think.

will check and post back

Total bargain if it is for only £4.95. Is it the first series?

When will the site be working again, I still cannot access it?

hiya mrs woolf....i've tried signing up for the 'hidden people' website but it's not letting me in for some reason.
going back to what you's were on about earlier....i've noticed that the original 32 tim and the hidden people books (4 8 book series ABCD) have been reprinted as 'magic in the wind', 'on the night of the full moon', 'three fires on the dark tower' and 'wind witches and stone men' and these are all going for silly money on amazon and ebay.

i also noticed that there were 4 novella books for older readers (which i haven't read yet) called 'tim and the people of the moonlight', 'the wild witches and the talisman', 'burglars in the yard' & 'magic in the north'. the first of these seems very difficult to get hold of thus is going for silly money like the earlier 4 but the following 3 can be purchased for around £5 from the likes of waterstones or wh smith etc. it seems like them 3 are still in print but the others aren't for some strange reason.

i don't know if any of you's are interested but i also wouldn't have minded getting hold of 'the griffin pirate stories' also by sheila mccullagh for a similar nostalgic trip down memory lane. now i know that there was 20 books originally (2 10 book series) but i'm not sure if these have been reprinted into 2 larger books or not. if anybody as got any information on this or where i can get hold of any of the books i mentioned earlier it would be much appreciated.

Hi all,

I was just wondering that if anyone has the full set of the Tim and the Hidden People Collection whether they would consider making PDF books from the originals; as I personally have struggled very hard to be able to find the vast majority of them all.

(I lost them in a recent house move) and now am having to trawl the internet to try to find them, on eBay thay are selling for what can only be called rediculous prices.

I'm sure it would help many people out there if these books were available as PDF's.

Hi All

I have done an audit of the books I have. If any of you are interested in buying.

I got them from a school that was closing down so they do have school stamps and a sticker on the spine but they are in good or very good condition

Series A - C are all either 2nd or 3rd impressions and are dated between 1976 and 1979. So am looking for £25 each.
Series D are all 1st editions and are dated 1980 so am looking for £40 each.

If I find any of the MISSING ones, I will let you all know.

Series A
A1 Tim and Tobias - MISSING
A2 All the fun of the Fair
A3 Tim Meets Capt Jory
A4 Riding in to danger - MISSING
A5 Tim and the witches
A6 The Highway Man - MISSING
A7 Magic in the Yard
A8 The Key

Series B
B1 The return of the Key
B2 Capt Jory Lends a Hand
B3 The Stump People
B4 Watchers in the Yard
B5 Red for Danger
B6 At the House of the Safe Witch
B7 Tim in Hiding
B8 On the Night of the Full moon

Series C
C1 The pool by the Whispering Trees - MISSING
C2 Tim in Trouble
C3 On the Road to the North
C4 Riding into Danger
C5 Mandrakes Castle
C6 Escape by Night - MISSING
C7 Three Fires on the Dark Tower
C8 Tim Rides the ghost Bus

Series D
D1 News from the north
D2 The Cry in the Dark
D3 The Shield Stone
D4 The Storm over the Sea
D5 The Cave of the Wind Witches
D6 In Diaman's Cave - MISSING
D7 Danger on the Moor - MISSING
D8 At the Hill of the Stone Prison - MISSING

Hello,

I am very interested in getting hold of these books because I loved them as a child and would love to read them to my children. If anyone has any spares or is willing to sell them please let me know.

Thanks very much

hi there anyone who has any of the tim and tobias books for sale please could you contact me via e mail as im looking for the complete collection. unfortunatly im starting from scratch. e mail [email protected]

Just in case anyone is still looking for information on the tim and the Hidden People books I've started a website at timandthehiddenpeople.net . It's got as much information as I could find on the books all collected in one space. I have a few of the pages of some of the books available to view as well. If anyone can help me out filling in the blanks that would be great!

Hi you still got any books left

I have the whole four series' a b c and d, as well as the extended books, if anyone are still looking for these books and would be interested in purchasing them, I can put a buy it now on to eBay.

I would certainly be interested, if they haven't been snapped up already?

Kind regards

Dazlynne, I would certainly be interested, if they haven't been snapped up already?

Kind regards