Booklist “Any of Jodi Taylor's addicting The Chronicles of St. Taylor has written a madcap and very funny hodgepodge of a novel whose pacing and humor is reminiscent of a Simon Pegg≮dgar Wright film.” There is plenty of humor, lots of action, and even a touch of romance.” Taylor does a great job of setting up an appealing cast of characters in this new series opener, most especially the intrepid Max. readers will be impatient for later installments.” ∺ carnival ride through laughter and tears with a bit of time travel thrown in for spice. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. Mary’s go, chaos is sure to follow in their wake. Mary’s (too often by the very seat of their pants) and thwarting time-travelling terrorists, all the while leaving plenty of time for tea.įrom eleventh-century London to World War I, from the Cretaceous Period to the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria, one thing is for sure: wherever the historians at St. Markham, and many more-as they travel through time, saving St. Mary’s tells the chaotic adventures of Max and her compatriots-Director Bairstow, Chief Leon Farrell, Mr. But, as new recruit Madeleine Maxwell soon discovers, it’s not only history they’re often fighting.

Mary’s is that one wrong move and history will fight back-sometimes in particularly nasty ways. The first thing you learn on the job at St. Just don’t call it “time travel”-these historians “investigate major historical events in contemporary time.” And they aren’t your harmless eccentrics either a more accurate description, as they ricochet around history, might be unintentional disaster-magnets.

Mary’s Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. “History is just one damned thing after another.” -Arnold Toynbeeīehind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. The first book in the USA Today bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone’s cup of tea.