The Ministry of Time: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025

by Kaliane Bradley

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A civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry gathering 'expats' from across history to test whether time-travel is feasible.

Her role is to work as a 'bridge': living with, supporting and monitoring expat '1847' - Commander Graham Gore, a former Victorian polar explorer. Gore, an adventurer by trade, soon adjusts to this bizarre new world of washing...Read more
  • ISBN10 139972634X
  • ISBN13 9781399726344
  • Publish Date 16 May 2024 (first published 7 May 2024)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
  • Imprint Sceptre
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 368
  • Language English