Headline No Time Like The Past Taylor Jodi

Rules are meant to be broken, aren't they? • 'I've done some stupid things in my time. I've been reckless. I've broken a few rules. But never before have I ruined so many lives or left such a trail of destruction behind me.' • Max has never been one for rules. They tend to happen to other people • But this time she's gone too far. And everyone at St Mary's is paying the price • With the History Department disintegrating around her and grounded until the end of time, how can she ever put things right?

What if the course of history was on your shoulders? • 'To do what I do - go where I go - see what I see - it's a wonderful, unique, never-to-be-taken-for-granted privilege.' • With great privilege comes great responsibility, something Max knows only too well, and as newly appointed Chief Training Officer at the St Mary's Institute of Historical Research, it's up to her to drum this guiding principle into her five new recruits • With a training programme that includes Joan of Arc, an illegal mammoth, a duplicitous Father of History, a bombed rat, Stone Age hunters and Dick the Turd, the question everyone is asking themselves is - what could possibly go wrong?

The tenth 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. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor • You can't change History. History doesn't like it. There are always consequences • Max is no stranger to taking matters into her own hands. Especially when she's had A Brilliant Idea. Yes, it will mean breaking a few rules, but - as Max always says - they're not her rules • Seconded to the Time Police to join in the hunt for the renegade Clive Ronan, Max is a long way from St Mary's. But life in the future does have its plus points - although not for long • A problem with the Time Map reveals chaos in the 16th century and the wrong Tudor queen on the throne

I would have trusted this man with my life. Until a couple of days ago, anyway • You know what they say - hope for the best, but plan for the worst • Max is quite accustomed to everything going wrong. She's St Mary's, after all. Disaster is her default state. But with her family reunited and a jump to Bronze Age Crete in the works, life is getting back to normal. Well, normal for St Mary's • And then, following one fateful night at the Tower of London, everything Max thought she knew comes crashing down around her • Too late for plans. The worst has happened. And who can Max trust now?

Because, my dear Max, you dance on the edge of darkness ... and I don't think it would take very much for you to dance my way • When an old enemy appears out of nowhere with an astonishing proposition for Max a proposition that could change everything Max is tempted. Very tempted • With an end to an old conflict finally in sight, it looks as if St Mary s problems are over with. Can they all finally live happily ever after? • As everything hangs in the balance, Max and St Mary s find themselves engulfed in tragedies worse than they could ever imagine • Is this the end?

'It's time, Max.' And so, a whole new chapter opens up • It's long been known that if a thing can go wrong, it will. With knobs on, usually. Disasters start to pile up. A new colleague with no respect for the past and a great deal to prove. Historians lost in time. And - worst of all - Rosie Lee on her very first jump. Then there's the small matter of Max's dishonourable discharge • From Tudor England to the Tower of Babel - it's all going horribly wrong • Jobless and homeless, Max receives an offer she can't refuse. Another time, another place. A refuge, perhaps • She's got that wrong, too

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. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor • Time Travel meets History in this explosive bestselling adventure series • 'So tell me, Dr Maxwell, if the whole of History lay before you ... where would you go? What would you like to witness?' • 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 • But one wrong move and History will fight back - to the death. And she soon discovers it's not just History she's fighting

The thirteenth 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 • Finally - finally! - Max has that nice office job she's always wanted. The one with no heavy lifting and no one tries to kill her. Well, one out of two's not bad • Punching well above their weight, Max and Markham set out to bring down a sinister organisation founded in the future - with a suspicious focus on the past • Max's focus is staying alive long enough to reunite with Leon and Matthew, alternately helped and hindered by St Mary's. Who aren't always the blessing they like to think they are • But non-stop leaping around the timeline - from witnessing Magna Carta to disturbing a certain young man with a penchant for gunpowder - is beginning to take its toll

From riotous misbehaviour in Victorian London to ingenious feats of scientific invention (powdered water - just add water!), and from a chaotic Nativity play starring a vengeful Angel Gabriel to an illegal expedition to Mars, Jodi Taylor knows how to spin a good yarn • Christmas Past The Farrells are together at last for their first St Mary's Christmas, a time of riotous misbehaviour and the traditional illegal Christmas jump - this time to Victorian London • Battersea Barricades A glimpse into the past of some of your St Mary's favourites characters in the throes of Civil Uprisings • The Steam-Pump Jump St Mary's Max is injured and tied to Sick Bay but obviously a good historian would never let that get in her way. Step forward, Mr Markham • And Now For Something Completely Different Who would the St Mary's team be to turn down a little Christmas expedition to Mars? An illegal Christmas jump is traditional, after all

Introducing The Time Police, the brand-new series by international bestselling author, Jodi Taylor - an irresistible spinoff from the much-loved Chronicles of St Mary's series. Perfect reading for fans of Doctor Who, Terry Pratchett and Jasper Fforde • A long time ago in the future, the secret of time travel became known to all. Unsurprisingly, the world nearly ended. There will always be idiots who want to change history • Enter the Time Police. An all-powerful, international organisation tasked with keeping the timeline straight. At all costs • Their success is legendary. The Time Wars are over. But now they must fight to save a very different future - their own • This is the story of Jane, Luke and Matthew - the worst recruits in Time Police history

Elinor Bascombe, widowed and tied to an impoverished estate, has learned to ask little of life. With no hope of leaving, the years have passed her by • Lord Ryde, exiled abroad after a scandal, has returned to strip his estate and make a new start in America • A chance encounter changes their plans, plunging Elinor and Lord Ryde into adventure and not a little peril until, finally, they are forced to confront the mystery of what happened on That Night, all those years ago • Are they both so entangled in the riddles of the past that they are about to miss this one last opportunity for future happiness?

Sofia Khan is going about everything the wrong way. At least, that's what her mother, Mehnaz, thinks. Sofia is twice-divorced, homeless and - worst of all - refusing to give up on a fostered baby girl. Sofia's just not behaving like a normal woman should • Sofia doesn't see it like that. She's planning to adopt Millie, and she's sure it'll be worth it. (Even if it means she and Millie have to stay at Mehnaz's place for a while.) And as Sofia finally begins to live the life she's chosen, she finds both romance and happiness start to blossom • But then someone comes back from the past - and not even Sofia's own past. Suddenly, she's faced with a choice. To do what's best for those she loves, Sofia might have to break her own heart. And she might find herself needing the last person she expected