02111cam a2200289 i 4500 991107381242106196 20250324111227.0 ta 240209s2024 enkbc b 000 1 eng d 9781399726344 hardback (OCoLC)1420908312 (OCoLC)1375547201 (OCoLC)1375553251 (OCoLC)on1420908312 AU@ eng AU@ ATNSH AUPTL rda AUNTL OCLCO ORU YDX SINLB LIV PR6102.R3333 M56 2024 Bradley, Kaliane, author. 25004 The Ministry of Time / Kaliane Bradley. London, England : Sceptre, 2024. 353 pages : map, portrait ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references. 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? Great Britain Officials and employees Fiction. 25005 John Franklin Arctic Expedition (1845-1851) Fiction. Civil service Fiction. Time travel Fiction. 22838 Roommates Fiction. lcc 0 0 lcc 0 0 TBS TBS 2025-03-24 0 P-EN BRA B05632 2025-03-24 1 2025-03-24 1 4570 4570