The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

Here, Bradley discusses her work with Bookselling This Week.

In the author’s debut novel, a 19th-century explorer moves in with his 21st-century caretaker. Trouble ensues. Kaliane Bradley had grown rather infatuated with Graham Gore, which was a problem, given the man had been born about two centuries too early.

Discussion questions from Hachette Australia.

From the publisher’s website

The Ministry of Time is less about the paradoxes and changing the course of history and more about the differ­ences and commonalities that bind us all across the breadth and length of time.

This week Code Switch digs into The Ministry of Time, a new book that author Kailene Bradley describes as a romance about imperialism. It focuses on real-life colonizer Graham Gore, who was a Victorian polar explorer that died on a doomed Arctic expedition in 1847.

Discussion Questions from Reading Group Guides.

Discussion questions from Simon & Schuster.

Some books really pack a punch, stuffing so much into their pages that it’s difficult to know where to start in a review. Kaliane Bradley‘s The Ministry of Time is one such book. The endorsements plastered across the cover and inside pages describe it as everything from clever, witty, charming and wonderful, to brilliant, thrilling, comedic, whimsical, off-beat and a new classic

The author’s intelligent and witty first novel effortlessly fuses a love story, a mystery and postcolonial narratives.