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This week we have:
A Murder Out of Time — Afternoon Tea, Murder Mystery & Book Launch with Jodi Taylor
It’s time to share with your friends! Just One Damned Thing is just 99p or 99 cents
Jodi Taylor Book Recommendation: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson 💙📚
The Book of the Month is Doing Time by Jodi Taylor
There’s plenty to read this week and you can see everything new on the blog too. CLICK HERE for the blog.
A Murder Out of Time — Afternoon Tea, Murder Mystery & Book Launch with Jodi Taylor
Murder. Mayhem. Meringues. We are absolutely thrilled to invite you to a brand-new Jodi Taylor experience: Murder Out of Time — An Afternoon Tea complete with Murder Mystery, Mischief and the Exclusive Launch of Out of Time (Book 6 in the Time Police series).
The Event
Prepare for a wickedly funny afternoon of murder, mystery, and cake, as we celebrate the launch of Jodi Taylor’s latest Time Police novel, Out of Time.
The scene is “The BAD Awards” – Book Adaptation Disasters and our usual suspects will all be there having been nominated for the worst movies of the year – all of which are traced back to notoriously BAD film Director - Calvin Cutter!
Jodi herself will be there in person — signing books, chatting with readers, and quite possibly trying to explain why someone has just been murdered in historically and dramatically questionable circumstances. Expect intrigue, laughter, and very likely a flying scone or two.
And yes — you'll be able to purchase a signed copy of Out of Time right there at the event — before it officially hits the shelves on 9th October.
What to Expect
· Exclusive early purchase & signing of Out of Time
· Afternoon Tea (with all the trimmings)
· Live interactive Murder Mystery
· Historically inaccurate costumes (optional but encouraged)
· The Time Police – ever present, ever vigilant
· Optional Quiz Night for those staying over on Saturday
It’s an afternoon that promises bodice-ripping scandal, suspiciously shaky alibis, and of course—murder most amusing.
Choose Your Date
You have two opportunities to join the fun – with different victims and suspects on each day to give two individual experiences:
· Saturday 27th September 2025
· Sunday 28th September 2025
Venue: Leonardo Hotel, Gloucester Road, GL51 0TS, Cheltenham
If you haven’t already shared your love of St Mary’s with ALL your friends and family, then now’s the time as Just One Damned Thing After Another is just 99p or 99 cents on Kindle! Please share, flaunt and demand that they read it!
The SubTime Station
A David Sands Competition story by Paula Berman
I would say I showed up to work bright and early that morning, but “early” has no meaning when your workplace is outside time. I was a team manager at the SubTime station, and you’ve never heard of us. Even if you’ve been though the Station, the odds are 99.9% that you’ve never heard of us.
On the plus side, that means we didn’t need to follow all the usual rules of customer service: our customers weren’t always right, and we never needed to smile and tell them to have a nice day … because 99.1% of them were out cold when they got here.
Somewhere in the far future, they finally learned to understand and control time travel. The problem is, that wasn’t the first time that time travel was invented, not by a long shot. It had been invented eons before it was fully understood, and many times it was invented by one person or a few people, who had no desire to share it with the greater public. They only wanted to use their new invention to meet their own goals, whether that was choosing the correct lottery numbers or assassinating their least favorite historical figure.
And so those scientists of the far future, the ones who finally, after all those abortive inventions, finally truly understood time travel (or as some prefer to call it, investigating historical events in contemporary time) and who had worked out all the probabilities, set up the SubTime Station.
Fancy yourself a sci-fi storyteller? Here's your chance to shine.
David Sands, the much-loved character from The Chronicles of St Mary's by Jodi Taylor, becomes a science fiction author. Now it’s your turn to step into his shoes.
Jodi Taylor Book Recommendation: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson 💙📚
Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science.
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The Book of the Month for May is Doing Time
Are there any St Mary's or time police t-shirts to buy?. I badly need more because of this very hot weather
One of my favourite books by one of my favourite authors.