The Chronicles of St Mary’s by Jodie Taylor, the first book is “One Damned Thing After Another” - historian’s using time travel to do proper first person research. It’s a time travel action adventure comedy with great characterisation and a spin off series.
The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. 100% one of the most interesting books to read during the pandemic although it was published in 1992. In some near future, a historian from Oxford university time travels back to the black death in the medieval period but gets stranded because a pandemic begins in Oxford and all the people who are qualified to work the time machine are either deathly ill or prevented from entering the city due to quarantine. It’s a fantastic study in human nature, how two societies dealt with terrifying and untreatable infectious plagues and hands down the most absorbing and credible story of living in a medieval family/village/society. One of my favourite books ever and really prescient about how we dealt with pandemic life, even down to the panic over toilet rolls! Maybe the author herself had a time machine??
The Chronicles of St Mary’s by Jodie Taylor, the first book is “One Damned Thing After Another” - historian’s using time travel to do proper first person research. It’s a time travel action adventure comedy with great characterisation and a spin off series.
The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. 100% one of the most interesting books to read during the pandemic although it was published in 1992. In some near future, a historian from Oxford university time travels back to the black death in the medieval period but gets stranded because a pandemic begins in Oxford and all the people who are qualified to work the time machine are either deathly ill or prevented from entering the city due to quarantine. It’s a fantastic study in human nature, how two societies dealt with terrifying and untreatable infectious plagues and hands down the most absorbing and credible story of living in a medieval family/village/society. One of my favourite books ever and really prescient about how we dealt with pandemic life, even down to the panic over toilet rolls! Maybe the author herself had a time machine??