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. After training, she gets sent to the trenches of WWI France, and other places and times, before things go to hell. Mary’s, a institution that investigates major historical events in contemporary time. “History is just one damned thing after another.” -Arnold Toynbeeīehind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. This is the story of Madeline Maxwell, a historian who is recruited by the secretive St.
' Addictive." 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. 'A great mix of British proper-ness and humour with a large dollop of historical fun' 41,567 Ratings 5,215 Reviews published 2013 56 editions 'History is just one damned thing after another.' B Want to Read Rate it: Book 2 A Symphony of Echoes by Jodi Taylor 4. Jodi Taylor and her protagonista Madeleine "Max" Maxwell have seduced me'
'Once in a while, I discover an author who changes everything. Just One Damned Thing After Another has everything I ever wanted to read about: time-travel back to the dinosaurs, brilliant and original people who work for the time-travel organization, and Max, who is dauntless and intelligent and everything I want to be. And she soon discovers it's not just History she's fighting. When Madeleine Maxwell is recruited by the St Mary's Institute of Historical Research, she discovers the historians there don't just study the past - they revisit it.īut one wrong move and History will fight back - to the death. where would you go? What would you like to witness?' 'So tell me, Dr Maxwell, if the whole of History lay before you. Time Travel meets History in this explosive bestselling adventure series. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor. The first book in the bestselling CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History.
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