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BRADLEY KALIANE THE MINISTRY OF TIME

A 2024 literary highlight in the Sunday Times  BBC  Grazia  Dazed  Sunday Express  GQ  i-D 
Stylist  Bookseller and Literary Friction  'Outrageously brilliant' ELEANOR CATTON  'Make room
on your bookshelves for a new classic' MAX PORTER  'Thought-provoking and horribly clever - but
it also made me laugh out loud' ALICE WINN  'Funny  moving  original  intelligent  beautifully
written and with a thunderous plot' NATHAN FILER  'As electric  charming  whimsical and strange
as its ripped-from-history cast' EMILY HENRY  'Within the first couple of pages I was gripped'
KATE MOSSE  A BOY MEETS A GIRL. THE PAST MEETS THE FUTURE. A FINGER MEETS A TRIGGER. THE
BEGINNING MEETS THE END. ENGLAND IS FOREVER. ENGLAND MUST FALL.  In the near future  a
disaffected civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry
gathering 'expats' from across history to test the limits of time-travel.  Her role is to work
as a 'bridge': living with  assisting and monitoring the expat known as '1847' - Commander
Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned  Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin's doomed
expedition to the Arctic  so he's a little disoriented to find himself alive and surrounded by
outlandish concepts such as 'washing machine'  'Spotify' and 'the collapse of the British
Empire'. With an appetite for discovery and a seven-a-day cigarette habit  he soon adjusts  and
during a long  sultry summer he and his bridge move from awkwardness to genuine friendship  to
something more.  But as the true shape of the project that brought them together begins to
emerge  Gore and the bridge are forced to confront their past choices and imagined futures. Can
love triumph over the structures and histories that have shaped them? And how do you defy
history when history is living in your house?

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