The first book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone s cup of tea.
History is just one damned thing after another. Arnold Toynbee
Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary s Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. 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.
The first thing you learn on the job at St. Mary s is that one wrong move and history will fight backsometimes in particularly nasty ways. But, as new recruit Madeleine Maxwell soon discovers, it s not only history they re often fighting.
The Chronicles of St. Mary s tells the chaotic adventures of Max and her compatriotsDirector Bairstow, Leon Chief Farrell, Mr. Markham, and many moreas they travel through time, saving St. 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.
From 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. Mary s go, chaos is sure to follow in their wake.