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Jodi Taylor

Hope for the Best

Hope for the Best

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The bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. Jodi Taylor's tenth book, "A Brilliant Idea," follows Max as she is seconded to the Time Police to join the hunt for the renegade Clive Ronan. A problem with the Time Map reveals chaos in the 16th century and the wrong Tudor queen on the throne, and Max must step up to save History. Readers love Jodi Taylor's mix of British properness and humor with historical fun, and her imagination gets them completely hooked.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 480 pages
Publication date: 25 April 2019
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group


The tenth book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around history. If you love Jasper Fforde, Ben Aaronovitch, or Doctor Who, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor.

Jodi Taylor does it again. A brilliant yomp through history - Reader Review. You can't change history. History doesn't like it. There are always consequences.

Max is no stranger to taking matters into her own hands. Especially when she's had a Brilliant Idea. Yes, it will mean breaking a few rules, but - as Max always says - they're not her rules.

Seconded to the Time Police to join in the hunt for the renegade Clive Ronan, Max is a long way from St Mary's. But life in the future does have its plus points - although not for long.

A problem with the Time Map reveals chaos in the 16th century and the wrong Tudor queen on the throne. History has gone rogue, there's a St Mary's team right in the firing line, and Max must step up.

You know what they say. Hope for the best. But plan for the worst.

Readers love Jodi Taylor:

Once in a while, I discover an author who changes everything ... Jodi Taylor and her protagonista Madeleine Max Maxwell have seduced me.

A great mix of British properness and humor with a large dollop of historical fun.

Addictive. I wish St Mary's was real and I was a part of it.

Jodi Taylor has an imagination that gets me completely hooked.

A tour de force.

Weight: 338g
Dimension: 196 x 128 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472264251

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