4/5: Well, that was a bizarre mix of... things. The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley's debut novel, is about a young British-Cambodian woman working as a civil servant who is recruited to act as a 'bridge' for one of a group of 'expats' - people plucked out of their own times shortly before impending death and brought to the present day. Our narrator is assigned Commander Graham Gore, once a naval officer on John Franklin's 'lost expedition' to the Arctic in 1845-8, now trying to adjust to t...| www.goodreads.com
20 Books of Summer is no longer being hosted by Cathy of 746 Books, but Annabel of AnnaBookBel and Emma of Words and Peace have stepped in instead – hooray! This year, it runs from 1st June t…| Laura Tisdall