A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all: Welcome to The Ministry of Time, the exhilarating debut novel by Kaliane Bradley.
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time.
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—“a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic” (The Washington Post) from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier.
“With the expansiveness and immersive feeling of two-time Booker Prize nominee David Mitchell’s fiction (Cloud Atlas), the wicked creepiness of Edgar Allan Poe, and Mason’s bone-deep knowledge of and appreciation for the natural world that’s on par with that of Thoreau, North Woods fires on all cylinders.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Operation Moonlight is a dual-timeline historical novel, inspired by the brave female secret agents of the Second World War. 1944: Newly-trained SOE secret agent Elisabeth is faced with an impossible mission – to parachute into Nazi-occupied France and send back information on the Germans’ deadly long-range missiles. Her only advice: trust no one.
2018: Betty is about to turn 100. When she receives an invitation from the local Century Society to meet other centenarians and reminisce, she remains mysteriously tight-lipped about her past. But when her carer, Tali, discovers a suitcase in Betty’s cellar containing letters and a gun, Betty’s secrets refuse to stay hidden any longer.
