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Kaliane Bradley: The Ministry of Time (Hardcover, 2024, Simon & Schuster)

In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and …

Better without the romance

Unexpectedly funny! Good story too: a handful of people across history are brought to the near future before their recorded deaths. The main “expat” is Commander Graham Gore, an arctic explorer from 1847 whose priggishness is endlessly entertaining (I’m an unrepentant Darcy lover). A romance, like in many stories where the tension is better than consummation, ruins it though.