Description
A thrilling debut... Reads like a novel that was written for pleasure... It s very smart; it s very silly; and the obvious fun never obscures completely the sheer, gorgeous, wild stretch of her ideas
Guardian
A 2024 literary highlight in the Sunday Times, BBC, Grazia, Dazed, Sunday Express, GQ, i-D, Stylist, Bookseller and Literary Friction, and an Elle Collective Book Club pick
Fast moving and riotously entertaining, a genre-busting blend of wit and wonder
10 best new novelists for 2024, Observer
Clever, witty and thought-provoking
KATE MOSSE, author of The Ghost Ship
Make room on your bookshelves for a new classic
MAX PORTER, author of Shy
As electric, charming, whimsical and strange as its ripped-from-history cast
EMILY HENRY, author of Happy Place
Thought-provoking and horribly clever - but it also made me laugh out loud
ALICE WINN, author of In Memoriam
Outrageously brilliant
ELEANOR CATTON, author of Birnam Wood
A feast of a novel - singular, alarming and (above all) incredibly sexy
JULIA ARMFIELD, author of Our Wives Under the Sea
A weird, kind, clever, heartsick little time bomb of a book
FRANCIS SPUFFORD, author of Golden Hill
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?
About the Author
Kaliane Bradley is a British-Cambodian writer and editor based in London. Her short stories have appeared in Electric Literature, Catapult, Somesuch Stories and The Willowherb Review,among others. She was the winner of the 2022 Harper s Bazaar Short Story Prize and the 2022 V. S. Pritchett Short Story Prize. The Ministry of Time is her first novel.
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