Best-selling author Jodi Taylor returns with a brand-new Chronicles of St Mary’s short story.
Like a smaller and much scruffier Greta Garbo – finally – Markham speaks!
It’s Christmas and time for the first (and almost certainly last) St Mary’s Annual Children’s Christmas Party – attendance compulsory, by order of Dr Bairstow. Discovered practising his illegal reindeer dance and poo-dropping routine, our hero, along with fellow disaster magnets Peterson and Maxwell, is dispatched to Anglo-Saxon England to discover the truth about Alfred and the cakes. In his own words, our hero reveals Major Guthrie’s six-point guide to a successful assignment and the Security Section’s true opinion of the History Department. And of historians in general. And of one historian in particular.
And, just to be clear, it is time travel, for God’s sake. Forget all that pretentious ‘investigating major historical events in contemporary time’ rubbish. This is history without the capital H. Because this is the way the Security Section rolls!
Markham pinch hits for Max and fouls out I really like this author. And,I really love all the books, including this one.Â
A new St Mary’s Christmas Special – Spiffing! I’m a huge fan of Jodi Taylor. The St Mary’s books, in particular, are conceptually innovative and ripping good yarns with solid, compelling and evolving characters (Her other series are enjoyable too – but quite different).Â
A Tantalizing Peek at Markham I thoroughly enjoyed this story. Just like a chocolate bar, it was very enjoyable and over far too soon. I thought I would find out more about Markham’s mysterious childhood and the resolution of his martial status. While not learning anything definitive on those topics, we get a new addition to the list of annual St Mary’s Christmas Eve illegal jumps. Markham’s POV in the book is sometimes expected because we’ve come to know him over the first 13 books yet also surprising. There are the…