Nick Goodman

Matt is trying to help his best friend, Bob, through a writer's block - involving him in a local mystery involving an inhabitant who appears to be over-150 years old... They begin to piece together a number of clues by speaking to a rather eccentric librarian named Emily and her assistant, Kirsten who are colleagues of Matt's from the upstairs Reference section of the library. Meanwhile, Bob's wife - Debs - isn't coping so well with her husband gallivanting around the town at all hours of the night and she has confided her concerns to her trusty Aunt Alice... Much to Deb's dismay Alice takes a far deeper interest in the whole matter than she had ever imagined - tracing Bob and Matt's footsteps to try and discover what exactly they have been up to Meanwhile, elsewhere - things are really beginning to get out of hand... Will the clues come together to provide an answer? Will Bob's marriage survive their adventure? What does a strange man named CB know about the whole matter? So much about the past remains in the shadows - Is this one mystery which simply refuses to be solved?

The adventures of Cabin Relese - space adventurer, time-traveller, Base Security agent, family man, hero - and the crew of the space-time vessel the TACTON. Curious about a rogue time-travel device, Cabin and his crew stumble upon The Vendetta, a luxury starliner stolen by fugitives from the once mighty Myterrean Empire. Their mission: to destroy the missing link that would make their erstwhile masters invincible - their lost supreme leader. The great secret of Myton. However, this maverick leader is also a murderous old foe of Cabin's - The Former, a devious, shape-shifting mutant whom Cabin had left for dead nine years earlier. Tracking the Former to Earth, Cabin and his friends scout ahead of The Vendetta rebels and pilot the TACTON to Milwaukee in the year 1957. In human disguise, the Former has an ingenious trap to spring to ensure its survival and freedom. A trap that must mean the elimination of all that seek it. Cabin faces a desperate race against time to prevent a massacre!

The Magnet Editor - the sci-fi adventure series known only to a select few - was over. But it had an afterlife... Picking up from where The Magnet Editor left off, Life After... was the all-new series that took the space and time escapades of Cabin Relese, all-round adventurer and scientific journalist, to the next level. The Magnet Editor writing team of Nick Goodman and Jo Bunsell return, joined by prolific poet Paul Chandler. Relocating from Mexico to the leafy Sussex village of Handlehead, Cabin - now without his super powers - reluctantly takes charge of Base Security and finds it tough at the top. He is plunged into new, perilous and challenging adventures. Accompanied by friends old and new, he faces the darkest terrors, and everything from his marriage to the future of the universe is at stake. Venture deep into the unknown with Life After Magnet Memories, the complete guide to this sequel series!

The TV series that was never made and that you ve never heard of celebrates its 40th year with an exhaustive retrospective guide! Growing from a child's game, the bizarrely-titled The Magnet Editor ran for ten years and a breathtaking 47 series. In bringing the series to life, Nick Goodman drew from 70s pop culture including Doctor Who and The New Avengers, and shared it only with his bewildered mother and childhood friends. Jo Bunsell was one such friend and soon the pair would be transported into a shared universe of preposterous and badly designed monsters and non-stop adventure with their extraordinary and strangely-named hero, Cabin Relese. Goodman and Bunsell open up their archive of materials and memories, and take you on a roller-coaster ride into their world! Magnet Memories is an episode guide, a frank, critical, incredulous and nostalgic reflection, a snapshot of childhood in the 70s and 80s... and it's possibly the most wonderfully bonkers cult TV book ever published!