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...
