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From the million-copy bestselling author of THE CHRONICLES OF ST
MARY'S. 'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time' C. K.
MCDONNELL --- 'I'm just stepping outside. I might be some Time.' Is
this Luke Parrish sacrificing himself to save others? A ghost
train, lost in Time, hurtles through the night with two members of
Team 236 trapped on board while the third struggles to track their
progress through the Time Map and effect a rescue. With Lt Grint
and Team 235 in hot pursuit, what is the future for Team 236? And
do they even have one? BOOK 5 IN THE TIME POLICE SERIES FOR FANS OF
TERRY PRATCHETT, THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB AND DOCTOR WHO Readers
love the Time Police: 'This got five stars only because I couldn't
give it six!' 'I don't think I've ever laughed out loud so much
reading a book' 'A new Jodi Taylor book is something I always get
excited about'
From the bestselling author of THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S. Life is
good for Team Weird, now heroes and fully fledged Time Police
officers. Luke can't wait to bear arms. Jane has a date. And
Matthew still hasn't had his hair cut. But Time waits for no one
and neither do criminal masterminds. A major threat to the Timeline
is looming, one far deadlier than mere idiots who want to change
history. And when a familiar face becomes a Very Important Lead,
will conflicting family loyalties spell trouble for Team Weird? One
missing. One guilt-ridden. And one facing the end of their Time
Police career before it's even begun. Not so good then, after all.
FOR FANS OF DOCTOR WHO, THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB AND JASPER FFORDE.
Readers love the Time Police: 'This got five stars only because I
couldn't give it six!' 'I don't think I've ever laughed out loud so
much reading a book' 'I am always gutted when I finish a Jodi
Taylor book as I know I will have to wait for the next one'
'Joyous, breakneck-speed adventures' 'Lots more in this series
please' 'This book is BRILLIANT' 'Brilliantly conceived and
flawlessly written'
Ninth book in the bestselling UK time-travel series, The Chronicles
of St. Mary’s This is the first book in the series that will
publish at the same time as the UK edition, which should guarantee
us strong co-promotion, cross-publicity, and word-of-mouth buzz
Starting as a self-publishing phenomenon in the UK in 2013, the
first book in the St. Mary’s series has nearly 1,000 US Amazon
reviews (nearly 1,400 on Amazon UK) and the author has nearly
45,000 total Goodreads ratings. British author Jodi Taylor has an
established fan base (St. Mary’s-branded mugs, clothing, and
other memorabilia are now sold on her site, after reader demand)
and enough strong word-of-mouth buzz to make noise far outside the
fantasy genre Time travel contextual comps include the romance and
adventure of Diana Gabaldon (Outlander) (and Gabaldon and Taylor
have similar tear-through-the-latest-book-in-the-series followers),
but the author also is inspired by the romantic screwball comedy of
Connie Willis (Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog)
Redefining Mainstream Popular Music is a collection of seventeen
essays that critically examines the idea of the "mainstream" in and
across a variety of popular music styles and contexts. Notions of
what is popular vary across generations and cultures - what may
have been considered alternative to one group may be perceived as
mainstream to another. Incorporating a wide range of popular music
texts, genres, scenes, practices and technologies from the United
Kingdom, North America, Australia and New Zealand, the authors
theoretically challenge and augment our understanding of how the
mainstream is understood and functions in the overlapping worlds of
popular music production, consumption and scholarship. Spanning the
local and the global, the historic and contemporary, the iconic and
the everyday, the book covers a broad range of genres, from punk to
grunge to hip-hop, while also considering popular music through
other mediums, including mash-ups and the music of everyday work
life. Redefining Mainstream Popular Music provides readers with an
innovative and nuanced perspective of what it means to be
mainstream.
The Festivalization of Culture explores the links between various
local and global cultures, communities, identities and lifestyle
narratives as they are both constructed and experienced in the
festival context. Drawing on a wide range of case studies from
Australia and Europe, festivals are examined as sites for the
performance and critique of lifestyle, identity and cultural
politics; as vehicles for the mobilization and cementation of local
and global communities; and as spatio-temporal events that inspire
and determine meaning in people's lives. Investigating the manner
in which festivals are no longer merely periodic, cultural,
religious or historical events within communities, but rather a
popular means through which citizens consume and experience
culture, this book also sheds light on the increasing diversity of
contemporary societies and the role played by festivals as sites of
cohesion, cultural critique and social mobility. As such, this book
will be of interest to those working in areas such as the
sociology, consumption and commodification of culture, social and
cultural geography, anthropology, cultural studies and popular
music studies.
'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time. Her books are a
swashbuckling joyride through History' C. K. MCDONNELL 'A great mix
of British properness and humour with a large dollop of historical
fun' ***** Meet St Mary's - a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets
who hurtle their way around History. - If the whole of History lay
before you, where would you go? When Dr Madeleine Maxwell is
recruited by the St Mary's Institute of Historical Research, she
discovers the historians there don't just study the past - they
revisit it. But one wrong move and History will fight back - to the
death. And Max soon discovers it's not just History she's
fighting... BOOK 1 IN THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING CHRONICLES OF
ST MARY'S SERIES For fans of Jasper Fforde, Doctor Who, Genevieve
Cogman and Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club 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 proper-ness and
humour 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'
Redefining Mainstream Popular Music is a collection of seventeen
essays that critically examines the idea of the "mainstream" in and
across a variety of popular music styles and contexts. Notions of
what is popular vary across generations and cultures - what may
have been considered alternative to one group may be perceived as
mainstream to another. Incorporating a wide range of popular music
texts, genres, scenes, practices and technologies from the United
Kingdom, North America, Australia and New Zealand, the authors
theoretically challenge and augment our understanding of how the
mainstream is understood and functions in the overlapping worlds of
popular music production, consumption and scholarship. Spanning the
local and the global, the historic and contemporary, the iconic and
the everyday, the book covers a broad range of genres, from punk to
grunge to hip-hop, while also considering popular music through
other mediums, including mash-ups and the music of everyday work
life. Redefining Mainstream Popular Music provides readers with an
innovative and nuanced perspective of what it means to be
mainstream.
High adventure and dark mystery combine in this sparkling
historical romance from the internationally bestselling author of
the Chronicles of St Mary's series. Elinor Bascombe, widowed and
tied to an impoverished estate, has learned to ask little of life.
With no hope of leaving, the years have passed her by. Lord Ryde,
exiled abroad after a scandal, has returned to strip his estate and
make a new start in America. A chance encounter changes their
plans, plunging Elinor and Lord Ryde into adventure and not a
little peril until, finally, they are forced to confront the
mystery of what happened on That Night, all those years ago. Are
they both so entangled in the riddles of the past that they are
about to miss this one last opportunity for future happiness?
Readers love Jodi Taylor: 'Quirky, historical fiction, well
seasoned with humour' 'Witty, fast-paced, fun and fantastic' ' I
can't remember when I last enjoyed a book this much' 'Revels in the
speech, habits and atmosphere of the Regency'
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Jodi Taylor
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From the million-copy bestselling author of THE CHRONICLES OF ST
MARY'S. 'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time' C. K.
MCDONNELL --- Twenty-four hours is a long Time in the Time Police.
When a fateful mission to apprehend a minor criminal selling dodgy
historical artefacts goes very wrong, Commander Hay faces the
longest day of her career. An officer is attacked within TPHQ. A
prisoner is murdered. And investigations are about to lead to the
one place where no officer can legally tread. Worst of all, trouble
is brewing for Luke, Jane and Matthew as a shocking revelation
threatens to tear Team Weird apart for good.... FOR FANS OF DOCTOR
WHO, THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB AND JASPER FFORDE. Readers love the
Time Police: 'This got five stars only because I couldn't give it
six!' 'I don't think I've ever laughed out loud so much reading a
book' 'I am always gutted when I finish a Jodi Taylor book as I
know I will have to wait for the next one' 'Joyous, breakneck-speed
adventures' 'Lots more in this series please' 'This book is
BRILLIANT' 'Brilliantly conceived and flawlessly written'
Popular music has always been a dynamic mediator of gender and
sexuality, and a productive site of rebellion, oddity and
queerness. The transformative capacity of music-making, performance
and consumption helps us to make sense of identity and allows us to
glimpse otherworldliness, arousing the political imagination. With
an activist voice that is impassioned yet adherent to scholarly
rigour, Playing it Queer provides an original and compelling
ethnographic account of the relationship between popular music,
queer self-fashioning and (sub)cultural world-making. This book
begins with a comprehensive survey and critical evaluation of
relevant literatures on queer identity and political debates as
well as popular music, identity and (sub)cultural style.
Contextualised within a detailed history of queer sensibilities and
creative practices, including camp, drag, genderfuck, queercore,
feminist music and club cultures, the author's rich empirical
studies of local performers and translocal scenes intimately
capture the meaning and value of popular musics and (sub)cultural
style in everyday queer lives.
The second book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series
which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle
their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben
Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor. Wherever the
historians go, chaos is sure to follow... Dispatched to Victorian
London to seek out Jack the Ripper, things go badly wrong when he
finds the St Mary's historians first. Stalked through the
fog-shrouded streets of Whitechapel, Max is soon running for her
life. Again. And that's just the start. Max finds herself in a race
against time when an old enemy is intent on destroying St Mary's.
An enemy willing, if necessary, to destroy History itself. From the
Hanging Gardens of Nineveh to the murder of Thomas a Becket, via an
unscheduled dodo rescue mission, join the historians of St Mary's
as they hurtle around History on more hilarious, hair-raising
escapades 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
proper-ness and humour 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'
BOOK 14 IN THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S SERIES, FROM THE
MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER JODI TAYLOR. ⭐ ⭐⭐ ⭐⭐ 'Brilliant,
hilarious, keeps you on your toes' Reader review 'The characters
make me come back time and time again' Reader review 'I have not
found another author who can tell a story involving time travel as
well' Reader review ⭐ ⭐⭐ ⭐⭐ St Mary's is under
investigation. Their director has been shot and Max is Number One
Suspect. Can things get any worse? We all know the answer to that
one. Max needs to get away - fast - and a Brilliant Idea soon leads
her to a full-scale uprising in twentieth-century China. If she can
come by a historical treasure or two in the process, even better.
That is, if she makes it out alive. Then there's the small matter
of Insight - the sinister organisation from the future hell bent on
changing History for their own dark ends. Having successfully
infiltrated their ranks, Max is perfectly placed to stop them. But
she knows her cover will soon be blown - because it's already
happened. Can Max take down Insight before they come after her? The
circle is closing, and only one can survive... For fans of Terry
Pratchett, Jasper Fforde, Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club
series and Doctor Who. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT JODI TAYLOR
'Once in a while, I discover an author who changes everything...
Jodi Taylor and her protagonista Madeleine "Max" Maxwell have
seduced me' READER REVIEW 'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of
Time. Her books are a swashbuckling joyride through History' C. K.
MCDONNELL 'This amazing series is anything but formulaic. Just when
you think you've got to grips with everything, out comes the rug
from under your feet' READER REVIEW 'Wonderfully imaginative' SFF
WORLD 'Addictive. I wish St Mary's was real and I was a part of it'
READER REVIEW 'Every page bubbles with energy' BRITISH FANTASY
SOCIETY 'St Mary's stories are the much-anticipated highlight of my
year' READER REVIEW 'Jodi Taylor has an imagination that gets me
completely hooked' READER REVIEW 'A tour de force' READER REVIEW
Introducing The Time Police, the brand-new series by international
bestselling author, Jodi Taylor - an irresistible spinoff from the
much-loved Chronicles of St Mary's series. Perfect reading for fans
of Doctor Who, Terry Pratchett and Jasper Fforde. 'The best way to
describe this book: lots of fun' British Fantasy Society 'Inventive
and entertaining... a fast-paced and fun first book in what
promises to be an excellent new series' Culturefly A long time ago
in the future, the secret of time travel became known to all.
Unsurprisingly, the world nearly ended. There will always be idiots
who want to change history. Enter the Time Police. An all-powerful,
international organisation tasked with keeping the timeline
straight. At all costs. Their success is legendary. The Time Wars
are over. But now they must fight to save a very different future -
their own. This is the story of Jane, Luke and Matthew - the worst
recruits in Time Police history. Or, very possibly, three young
people who might change everything. DOING TIME is a five-star
read!: 'I blooming well loved this book. Read start to finish in
only a couple of sittings' ***** 'Excellent start to this St Mary's
Chronicles spinoff series. There is Taylor's trademark humour,
along with moments of real lump-in-the-throat poignancy' *****
'Clever, witty, humourous, touching, emotional, just about
everything anyone could want. Can't wait for the next one' *****
'Another superb book from the pen of Jodi Taylor' ***** 'This book
does not disappoint' *****
'Perfect for anyone who loves fast-paced action with strong,
memorable characters who drive the story forward with a combination
of ingenuity and incompetence. Highly recommended' BRITISH FANTASY
SOCIETY 'Immersive, heart-warming, entertaining' THE SCIENCE FACT
AND FICTION CONCATENATION BOOK 2 IN THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING
TIME POLICE SERIES, FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S
A very British novel, for fans of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder
Club, Jasper Fforde and Doctor Who. --- There have always been
idiots who want to change history. But now temporal tourism is on
the rise. Highly illegal, highly risky - and highly lucrative. The
Time Police despatch their toughest undercover agents to take out
the perpetrators. Then the unthinkable happens. Replacements are
needed fast and who better than three young officers who barely
look the part? Step forward Team Weird - Luke, Jane and Matthew.
They might still be in training. Their methods might be unorthodox.
But, as the Time Police face their greatest ever threat, Team Weird
might be their only shot at survival. Readers loved DOING TIME:
'This got five stars only because I couldn't give it six!' 'I don't
think I've ever laughed out loud so much reading a book' 'Joyous,
breakneck-speed adventures' 'Lots more in this series please' 'This
book is BRILLIANT
'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time. Her books are a
swashbuckling joyride through History' C. K. MCDONNELL BOOK 13 IN
THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S SERIES For
fans of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club series, Jasper Fforde
and Doctor Who. --- Finally - finally! - Max has that nice office
job she's always wanted. The one with no heavy lifting and no one
tries to kill her. Well, one out of two's not bad... Punching well
above their weight, Max and Markham set out to bring down a
sinister organisation founded in the future - with a suspicious
focus on the past. Max's focus is staying alive long enough to
reunite with Leon and Matthew, alternately helped and hindered by
St Mary's. Who aren't always the blessing they like to think they
are. But non-stop leaping around the timeline - from witnessing
Magna Carta to disturbing a certain young man with a penchant for
gunpowder - is beginning to take its toll. Is Max going mad? Or are
the ghosts of the past finally catching up with her? What people
are saying about Jodi Taylor: 'Once in a while, I discover an
author who changes everything... Jodi Taylor and her protagonista
Madeleine "Max" Maxwell have seduced me' 'This amazing series is
anything but formulaic. Just when you think you've got to grips
with everything, out comes the rug from under your feet'
'Addictive. I wish St Mary's was real and I was a part of it' 'St
Mary's stories are the much-anticipated highlight of my year' 'Jodi
Taylor has an imagination that gets me completely hooked' 'A tour
de force'
The first instalment in the gripping supernatural thriller series
from international bestselling author, Jodi Taylor, perfect for
fans of Sarah Painter, Genevieve Cogman and Ben Aaronovitch. They
say silence is golden but they're wrong. Silence is white and
deadly. There are things in this world that only Elizabeth Cage can
see. Important things. Dangerous things. But what is a curse to her
is a gift to others, a very valuable gift that some want to
control. At any cost. And when her husband dies unexpectedly,
Elizabeth finds herself targeted by a medical institution with a
secret - and sinister - agenda. There she meets Michael Jones, and
it seems he's not on anyone's side but his own . . . White Silence
is a twisty supernatural thriller that will have you on the edge of
your seat. Readers love Jodi Taylor: 'Jodi Taylor does brilliant,
strong female heroes, and Elizabeth follows on from Max in the St
Mary's series' 'I look forward to another adventure with this
quirky and perfectly matched pair' 'Hold on to your seat and close
your eyes if you dare!' 'Gripping and full of curious plot turns'
'An on-the-edge-of-your-seat thriller where no assumptions can be
made'
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