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The Ministry of Time

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Bradley Kaliane

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Within the first couple of pages, I was gripped . . . Kaliane Bradley is a wonderful writer.'KATE MOSSE, AUTHOR OF THE GHOST SHIP. 'Holy smokes, this novel is an absolute cut above! Exciting, surprising, intellectually provocative, weird, radical, tender, and moving. I missed it when I was away from it. I will hurry to re-read it. Make room on your bookshelves for a new classic.' MAX PORTER, AUTHOR OF SHY. 'An outrageously brilliant debut . . . This is already the best new book I will have read next year.' ELEANOR CATTON, AUTHOR OF BIRNAM WOOD. 'Hugely enjoyable . . . Your next crush is a long-dead Arctic explorer.' JOANNA QUINN, AUTHOR OF THE WHALEBONE THEATRE. 'Kaliane Bradley writes with the maximalist confidence of P. G. Wodehouse, but also with the page-turning pining of Sally Rooney. It's thought-provoking and hilariously clever - but it also made me laugh out loud.' ALICE WINN, AUTHOR OF IN MEMORIAM. 'A fantastic debut: conceptually brilliant, really funny, genuinely moving, written in exquisite language, articulating the complexities of mixed-race heritage.' MARK HADDON, AUTHOR OF THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME. In the near future, a disaffected civil servant takes a lucrative job in a new government ministry that gathers 'expats' from history to test time-travel limits. Her role is to assist Commander Graham Gore, who died on Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition but finds himself alive in a stran