

It sets up the rest of the series well, and should have most readers eager to see what the St. This is the kind of book that you walk away from believing in time travel. Max is a thoroughly hilarious and confident narrator and the sense of real danger, interspersed with copious amounts of tea, pervades the story. Mary’s should appeal to readers who like their time travel realistic and their narrative sarcastic. With events in history spanning from the Cretaceous period to WWI, this story of St. And they aren’t just fighting history this time, but others who would use time to their own advantage. This delightful adventure by Jodi Taylor “explores historical events in contemporary time.” Madeleine “Max” Maxwell and her compatriots bang about in history, with history just as quick to bang them back, sometimes fatally. Mary’s, 1) by Jodi Taylor Formats available: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook Series: Chronicles of St. ' Addictive.Best described as a mad-cap dash through history told with a generous dose British humor and a surety of things blowing up, Just One Damned Thing After Another is the first of the Chronicles of St. Posted on Jby Marlene Harris Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St. 'A great mix of British proper-ness and humour with a large dollop of historical fun' Jodi Taylor and her protagonista Madeleine "Max" Maxwell have seduced me' 'Once in a while, I discover an author who changes everything.

And Max soon discovers it's not just History she's fighting.īOOK 1 IN THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S SERIESįor fans of Jasper Fforde, Doctor Who, Genevieve Cogman and Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club When Dr 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. I wish St Marys was real and I was a part of it. Jodi Taylor and her protagonista Madeleine 'Max' Maxwell have seduced meA great mix of British proper-ness and humour with a large dollop of historical funAddictive. If the whole of History lay before you, where would you go? : Just One Damned Thing After Another (9781472264268) by Taylor, Jodi and a great selection of similar New. October BOTM: JUST ONE DAMNED THING AFTER ANOTHER by Jodi Taylor: 2 13: 08:03PM Play Book Tag: (Poll Ballot) Just One Damn Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St. Meet St Mary's - a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets who hurtle their way around History. 'A great mix of British properness and humour with a large dollop of historical fun' ***** MCDONNELL A great mix of British properness and humour with a large dollop of historical fun Meet St Marys - a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets who hurtle their way around History. Her books are a swashbuckling joyride through History C. Her books are a swashbuckling joyride through History' C. Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time. 'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time.
