Iris Wildthyme (series)

The Iris Wildthyme series was a collection of audio and prose stories about the adventures of Iris Wildthyme, often accompanied by her companion Panda.
== Overview ==
Paul Magrs created the character of Iris Wildthyme for his Phoenix Court series of novels (predating this, an earlier version of the character appeared in his first published work, Patient Iris).
She was first introduced to the Doctor Who universe in his 1998 Fourth Doctor short story Old Flames before being more fully featured in several novels of BBC Books Eighth Doctor and Past Doctor ranges.
Iris later made her audio debut in Big Finish Productions' Excelis Dawns, where she was portrayed by Katy Manning. Manning would go on to play Iris in all future audio stories, and she would be the basis for illustrations of Iris on the cover of most Iris Wildthyme books.
In August 2005, Big Finish released the prose anthology Wildthyme on Top as part of their New Worlds label. This was followed a few months later by Wildthyme at Large, the first Iris Wildthyme audio story, which notably introduced her companion Panda. Further anthologies of short stories and novellas featuring Iris were published by Obverse Books, and Paul Magrs wrote further novels featuring Iris and Panda for Snowbooks Ltd.
== Stories ==
=== Prose ===
==== Anthologies ====
Title 	Editor 	Publisher 	Released
Wildthyme on Top 	Paul Magrs 	Big Finish Productions	August 2005
Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus 	Paul Magrs, Stuart Douglas 	Obverse Books 	May 2009
Twelve Stories 	Paul Magrs 	Salt Publishing 	November, 2009
The Panda Book of Horror 	Paul Magrs, Stuart Douglas 	Obverse Books 	December 2009
Ms Wildthyme & Friends Investigate 	Stuart Douglas 	Obverse Books 	May 2010
Iris: Abroad 	Stuart Douglas 	Obverse Books 	November 2010
Wildthyme in Purple 	Stuart Douglas 	Obverse Books 	November 2011
The Occasional Diary of a Transtemporal Adventuress	Paul Magrs 	Obverse Books 	April 2012
Lady Stardust 	Art Critic Panda 	Obverse Books 	October 2012
Resurrection Engines 	Scott Harrison 	Snowbooks Ltd 	November 2012
The Further Adventures of Iris Wildthyme 	Paul Magrs, Stuart Douglas 	Obverse Books 	August 2013
Iris: Fifteen 	Stuart Douglas 	Obverse Books 	September 2013
Iris Wildthyme of Mars 	Philip Purser-Hallard 	Obverse Books 	September 2014
The Perennial Miss Wildthyme 	Paul Dale Smith 	Obverse Books 	September 2015
A Clockwork Iris 	Stuart Douglas, George Mann, Paul Magrs	Obverse Books 	February 2017
Wild Thymes on the 22 	Stewart Sheargold 	Obverse Books 	November 2018
Bafflement & Devotion: Iris at the Edges 	 	Obverse Books 	January 2021
==== Novels ====
===== Snowbooks Ltd =====
From 2011 to 2013, Snowbooks Ltd released a trilogy of Magrs-penned novels about the adventures of Iris and Panda.
Title 	Author 	Featuring	Released
Enter Wildthyme 	Paul Magrs	Panda 	January 2011
Wildthyme Beyond! 	Paul Magrs	Panda 	June 2012
From Wildthyme with Love	Paul Magrs	Panda 	November 2013
===== The New Adventures of Iris Wildthyme =====
In 2019, Obverse Books released the first instalment in a new series of Iris Wildthyme novels by Paul Magrs.
# 	Title 	Author 	Featuring	Released
1 	Iris Wildthyme and the Polythene Terror	Paul Magrs 	Panda 	October 2019
Summer special	Mother, Maiden, Crone 	Courtney Milnestein	Panda 	3 May 2020
===== Obverse Sextet =====
One Iris Wildthyme book was published as part of Obverse Sextet, a series of six novellas released in 2019 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Obverse Books.
Title 	Author 	Featuring	Released
The Mystic Menagerie of Iris Wildthyme	Nick Campbell	Panda 	October 2019
The character is also a major character in Vanishing Tales of the City, the closing instalment of Obverse Sextet.
=== Audio ===
==== Series 1 ====
# 	Title 	Author 	Featuring 	Released
1.1	Wildthyme at Large 	Paul Magrs 	Tom, Panda	November 2005
1.2	The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme	Stephen Cole	Tom, Panda	December 2005
==== Series 2 ====
# 	Title 	Author 	Featuring	Released
2.1	Iris Wildthyme and the Sound of Fear 	Mark Michalowski	Panda 	February 2009
2.2	Iris Wildthyme and the Land of Wonder	Paul Magrs 	Panda 	February 2009
2.3	The Two Irises 	Simon Guerrier 	Panda 	February 2009
2.4	Iris Wildthyme and the Panda Invasion	Mark Magrs 	Panda 	February 2009
==== Christmas special ====
Title 	Author 	Featuring 	Released
Iris Wildthyme and the Claws of Santa	Cavan Scott and Mark Wright	Panda, Mary	November 2009
==== Series 3 ====
# 	Title 	Author 	Featuring	Released
3.1	The Iris Wildthyme Appreciation Society	Cavan Scott	Panda 	August 2012
3.2	Iris Rides Out 	Guy Adams 	Panda 	August 2012
3.3	Midwinter Murders 	George Mann	Panda 	August 2012
==== Series 4 ====
# 	Title 	Author 	Featuring	Released
4.1	Whatever Happened to Iris Wildthyme?	Cavan Scott & Mark Wright	Panda 	August 2013
4.2	Iris at the Oche 	Mark Wright 	Panda 	August 2013
4.3	A Lift in Time 	David Bailey 	Panda 	August 2013
==== Worlds of Big Finish ====
The May 2015 The Worlds of Big Finish audio anthology featured characters from several of Big Finish's audio ranges, including Iris Wildthyme. The story featuring Iris, Kronos Vad's History of Earth Vol. 36,379 by David Llewellyn, reintroduced the character of Captain Turner, who had not appeared since Iris' Doctor Who debut in Old Flames; he would go on to be Iris' main companion in the Big Finish boxset Wildthyme Reloaded.
==== Wildthyme Reloaded ====
# 	Title 	Author 	Featuring 	Released
5.1	Comeback of the Scorchies 	James Goss 	Edwin Turner	6 August 2015
5.2	Dark Side 	Nick Campbell 	Edwin Turner	6 August 2015
5.3	Oracle of the Supermarket 	Roy Gill 	Edwin Turner	6 August 2015
5.4	Murder at the Abbey 	Mark B. Oliver	Edwin Turner	6 August 2015
5.5	The Slots of Giza 	Hamish Steele 	Edwin Turner	6 August 2015
5.6	High Spirits 	Cavan Scott 	Edwin Turner	6 August 2015
5.7	An Extraterrestrial Werewolf in Belgium	Scott Handcock	Edwin Turner	6 August 2015
5.8	Looking for a Friend 	Paul Magrs 	Edwin Turner	6 August 2015
==== Iris Wildthyme and Friends ====
Iris Wildthyme and Friends was a series of audiobook adaptations of Iris Wildthyme books and other books by Paul Magrs. It was classed as being part of Iris Wildthyme by the Big Finish website.
#	Title 	Author 	Read by 	Featuring 	Released
—	Fellowship of Ink 	Paul Magrs	Louise Jameson	Brenda, Cleavis 	5 May 2021
—	666 Charing Cross Road 	Paul Magrs	Louise Jameson	 	21 May 2021
1	Enter Wildthyme 	Paul Magrs	Katy Manning 	Iris Wildthyme, Panda, Simon, Kelly	27 February 2023Big Finish News Updates
2	Wildthyme Beyond! 	Paul Magrs	Katy Manning 	Iris Wildthyme, Panda, Simon, Kelly	16 March 2023
3	Iris Wildthyme and the Polythene Terror	Paul Magrs	Katy Manning 	Iris Wildthyme, Panda, Simon, Kelly	25 April 2023
== Timeline of releases ==
== Notes ==
* Four stories from Obverse Books' first four Iris Wildthyme anthologies were later collected in the 2012 ebook sampler The Occasional Diary of a Transtemporal Adventuress.
* In November 2013, Paul Magrs announced on Gallifrey Base that he was moving on from Iris Wildthyme, with From Wildthyme with Love intended to be his "little farewell tome".Gallifrey Base: End of Wildthyme However, Obverse Books continued publishing Iris Wildthyme anthologies, and in 2015 Big Finish rebooted its Iris series with the boxset Wildthyme Reloaded.
* In 2017, Snowbooks released Magrs' Fellowship of Ink, a novel which featured several characters and concepts from his Eighth Doctor-and-Iris Wildthyme novel Mad Dogs and Englishmen but didn't actually include Iris herself.
== External links ==
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== Footnotes ==
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