The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley
A British government ministry pulls people out of the past before they would have died and calls them expats. The narrator, the daughter of a British father and a Cambodian refugee mother, is assigned as bridge to Graham Gore, an officer from a nineteenth-century Arctic expedition, and their arguments about modern Britain turn into espionage and romance. It won the Hugo Award in 2025. The link is the Hodder & Stoughton hardback, the first UK edition.
Why you should read this
Bradley's debut folds a time-travel premise into a spy-agency workplace setting and a romance thread, part of a recent wave of genre-crossing literary debuts that reached readers well beyond the usual science-fiction audience. Light and fast paced rather than hard science fiction, so it suits readers after entertainment over rigorous world-building.
- Field
- Literature
- Form
- Fiction
- Published
- 2024
- Themes
- ContemporaryWesternFiction
