The Ministry of Time (pb)

www.kirkusreviews.com Starred Review 2024 "This rip-roaring romp pivots between past and present and posits the future-altering power of love, hope, and forgiveness."

www.abiawards.com.au Award Winner 2025 - International Book of the Year

www.goodreads.com Winner 2024 - Goodreads Choice AwardWinner for Readers' Favorite Science Fiction (2024), Nominee for Readers' Favorite Debut Novel (2024)

3.57 stars with 227,063 ratings & 37,382 reviews as at 14 Feb 2026

One of the 18 best novels of the year for the Sunday Times

A civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry gathering 'expats' from across history to test whether time-travel is feasible.

Her role is to work as a 'bridge': living with, supporting and monitoring expat '1847' - Commander Graham Gore, a former Victorian polar explorer. Gore, an adventurer by trade, soon adjusts to this bizarre new world of washing machines, feminism and Spotify; and during a long, sultry summer the pair move from awkwardness to friendship to something more.

But as the true shape of the project that brought them together begins to emerge, Gore and the bridge are forced to confront their past choices and imagined futures. Can love triumph over the histories that have shaped them? And how do you defy that history when it is living in your house?

Kaliane Bradley is a British-Cambodian writer and editor based in London. Her short stories have appeared in Electric Literature, Catapult, Somesuch Stories and The Willowherb Review, among others. She was the winner of the 2022 Harper's Bazaar Short Story Prize and the 2022 V. S. Pritchett Short Story Prize.

Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text)

368pp h196mm x w128mm x s30mm 320g