I will be the first to admit that I struggle with any sort of fantasy or science fiction – it takes a lot to sell me on plots of this nature. This was a book club selection and way outside of my normal realm of reading – which I guess is the point of participating in a book club, right? Unfortunately, partially due to my own shortcomings, this book didn’t work for me. For wherever Historians go, chaos is sure to follow in their wake…. And, as they soon discover – it’s not just History they’re fighting.įollow the catastrophe curve from 11th-century London to World War I, and from the Cretaceous Period to the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria. But one wrong move and History will fight back – to the death. Their aim is to observe and document – to try and find the answers to many of History’s unanswered questions…and not to die in the process. Meet the disaster-magnets of St Mary’s Institute of Historical Research as they ricochet around History. Maintaining the appearance of harmless eccentrics is not always within their power – especially given their propensity for causing loud explosions when things get too quiet. They don’t do ‘time-travel’ – they ‘investigate major historical events in contemporary time’. Behind the seemingly innocuous façade of St Mary’s, a different kind of historical research is taking place.
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