June 2024

This debut novel is set to be one of the block-busters of the Summer and already slated for a TV adaptation by the BBC. The high-concept sci-fi world allows Bradley to explore weighty themes of identity, immigration, trauma and human nature. The unnamed narrator, who is of mixed heritage, works for the Ministry of Time, “helping” immigrants brought to the present from various pasts, who are now integrating into modern society. Her loyalty to her government employers is challenged as she becomes closer to her assigned “expat”, Commander Graham Gore (a real historical figure, who disappeared from an Arctic exploration…