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Thunderbirds books were first produced in the UK by Armada Books.

Only five paperback novels were printed, four Thunderbirds and one Lady Penelope.

Four further novels (two Thunderbirds and two Lady Penelope) were published in hardback by World Distributors Books in 1966.

Titan Books later started to revive the series by reprinting Books 1 and 2 in 1989 and 1990. As with Captain Scarlet, this reprint run fizzled out with the inside cover stating Book 3 would be "Ring of Fire" which never appeared.

In 1992, Young Corgi started printing novelisations of the original TV episodes, but after four books the series halted. This series was later reprinted with different covers by Carlton Books in 2001.

And of course, in 2004 the new live action Thunderbirds movie was released.


UPDATE : FTL Publications started publishing a NEW series of novels from 2008 (see below).

Armada Books

1966
1966
1966
1966
1967

World Distributors Books

1966
1966
1966
1966

Titan Books

No 1 (1989)
No 2 (1990)

Young Corgi Books

No 1 (1992)
No 2 (1992)
No 3 (1992)
No 4 (1992)

Carlton Books

No 1 (2001)
No 2 (2001)
No 3 (2001)
No 4 (2001)

Harper Festival Books

2004
2004

FTL Publications Books
A new series of trade size paperback novels

No 1 (2008)
No 2 (2008)
No 3 (2009)
No 4 (2010)
No 5 (2011)

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