Books like 'About Time'
Readers who enjoyed About Time by Jodi Taylor also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
historical sc-fi alternate history action / adventure time-travel historical-fiction humor steampunk industrial-era
-
Hope for the Best by Jodi Taylor
18 ratingsThe tenth 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.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... -
The Toast of Time by Jodi Taylor
14 ratingsOnce again, the Toast of Time falls butter side down. Dr 'Max' Maxwell prepares for her very first Christmas away from St Mary's...It's that most wonderful time of the year once more. But Max and Markham are a long way from St Mary's...Categorized as:
historical-fiction humor time-travel action-adventure adult alternate-history audiobook book -
The Long and the Short of it by Jodi Taylor
17 ratingsFollow the disaster magnets of St Mary's as they hurtle around history! The ninth book in The Chronicles of St Mary's Series collects the bestselling short stories in print for the first time. When a Child is Born - A jump back to 1066 to witness the coronation of William the Conqueror goes slightly astray... -
Christmas Past by Jodi Taylor
14 ratingsThe First Farrell Family Christmas Max, Leon and Matthew - together at last for Christmas at St Mary's - a time of conspicuous consumption, riotous misbehaviour and the traditional illegal Christmas jump. And this time, it's inter-generational... -
-
The Steam-Pump Jump by Jodi Taylor
16 ratingsNot one to let being banged up in Sick Bay stop her, Max has had a brilliant idea. But she needs Markham to execute it on her behalf. The subject of this cunning plan is Peterson, struggling with another bereavement and not doing very well. What’s needed to get him through it is sympathy, sensitivity, tact and understanding.Step forward Mr Markham, for whom sympathy, sensitivity, etc... -
The Great St Mary's Day Out by Jodi Taylor
16 ratingsEveryone deserves to get away for a bit. Even the miscreants at St Mary's. Astonishingly, Dr Bairstow has declared a holiday. Even more astonishingly - he's paying for it. Needless to say, there are strings attached. They have to record the 1601 performance of Hamlet, with Shakespeare himself in the role of the Ghost. It doesn't go well, of course... -
A Perfect Storm by Jodi Taylor
14 ratingsThe brand new short story in the bestselling series, The Chronicles of St Mary’s... -
Why is Nothing Ever Simple? by Jodi Taylor
14 ratingsA special Chronicles of St Mary's Christmas short story that is sure to entertain. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor.Bannockburn. Major Guthrie. The traditional St Mary's illegal Christmas jump.All terribly straightforward, surely..Categorized as:
historical-fiction humor time-travel action-adventure adult alternate-history archaeology audiobook -
The Ordeal of the Haunted Room by Jodi Taylor
14 ratingsA Christmas ghost story - Chronicles of St Mary's style! For fans of Doctor Who and Jasper Fforde...and A Christmas Carol. Where better for the annual festive jump than the chance to experience a real Victorian Christmas?On the longest night of 1895, a terrible storm rages above Harewood Hall... -
And Now for Something Completely Different by Jodi Taylor
16 ratingsHere's a question for you. What's the most exciting thing ever found in a fire bucket? And don't say 'fire' because you'll be wrong... -
Lost In Time : An Old Fashion Western by S.A. Ison
10 ratingsSawyer Reed is heading home after rambling for seven years after the Civil War ended. His family's cattle ranch is waiting, and he is ready to get to work. On his way home from Mexico, Sawyer runs into a mysterious woman who will change his life and his future forever. Josephine Alverez is a chef at a posh restaurant in San Antonio, Texas in the year 2020... -
When Did You Last See Your Father? by Jodi Taylor
14 ratings'Max, your father is here. He's come to take Matthew away'Have you ever wondered what would happen if Max's husband met Max's father? What would Leon do?They're normally a fairly amiable bunch, but this is the story of what to expect if St Mary's doesn't like someone. As in, really doesn't like someone...Categorized as:
historical-fiction humor time-travel action-adventure adult alternate-history audiobook book -
The Battersea Barricades by Jodi Taylor
16 ratingsIt's not easy being a rebel. So many new skills to assimilate. Never mind strategic planning, weapons expertise and the like - there's bicycle-stealing, oil-stain removal and boat steering to be mastered first. And quickly. It's the time of the Civil Uprisings and two young women set out to make a difference. Their only problem? They don't know where they are. Or where they're going...Categorized as:
historical-fiction humor time-travel action-adventure adult alternate-history audiobook book -
My Name is Markham by Jodi Taylor
16 ratingsLike a smaller and much scruffier Greta Garbo – finally – Markham speaks!It’s Christmas and time for the first (and almost certainly last) St Mary’s Annual Children’s Christmas Party – attendance compulsory, by order of Dr Bairstow...Categorized as:
historical-fiction humor time-travel action-adventure adult alternate-history audiobook book -
-
Roman Holiday by Jodi Taylor
18 ratingsAnother rollicking short story from the Chronicles of St Mary’s author Jodi Taylor. Question: What sort of idiot installs his mistress in his wife’s house? Especially when that mistress is Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator, Queen of Egypt and the most notorious woman of her time? Answer: Julius Caesar – poised to become King of Rome. Or as good as...Categorized as:
historical-fiction humor industrial-era steampunk time-travel action-adventure adult alpha-mc -
The Rewind Files by Claire Willett
8 ratingsWhen a bookish junior agent at the U.S. Time Travel Bureau stumbles across a massive conspiracy with roots in 1972’s Watergate, she is forced into her first- ever field assignment - to expose the conspirators and avert World War III.----------------------------------Washington, D.C. 2112United States Time Travel BureauRegina Bellows, junior agent at the U.S...Categorized as:
historical-fiction time-travel action-adventure adult alternate-history book fiction historical -
When a Child is Born by Jodi Taylor
18 ratingsIt's Christmas Day 1066 and a team from St Mary's is going to witness the coronation of William the Conqueror. Or so they think. However, History seems to have different plans for them and when Max finds herself delivering a child in a peasant's hut, she can't help wondering what History is up to...Categorized as:
historical-fiction humor industrial-era steampunk time-travel action-adventure adult alpha-mc -
1637: No Peace Beyond the Line by Eric Flint, Charles E. Gannon
6 ratingsTHE BATTLE FOR THE NEW WORLD IS A FIGHT TO THE FINISH! A NEW RING OF FIRE NOVEL BY BEST-SELLING WRITING TEAM ERIC FLINT AND CHARLES E. GANNONA New Day in the New WorldIt’s 1637 in the Caribbean. Commander Eddie Cantrell and his ally and friend Admiral Martin Tromp start it off with some nasty surprises for Spain, whose centuries-long exploitation and rapine of the New World has run unchecked... -
The Jackal’s House by Anna Butler
6 ratingsSequel to The Gilded ScarabSomething is stalking the Aegyptian night and endangering the archaeologists excavating the mysterious temple ruins in Abydos. But is it a vengeful ancient spirit or a very modern conspiracy…...Categorized as:
historical-fiction humor industrial-era steampunk action-adventure adult alternate-history book -
Claimed by Lindsay Buroker
12 ratingsAfter years on the hunt, Cedar Kartes is finally within striking distance of Cudgel Conrad, the criminal who slew his brother and framed him for murder. With the help of Kali McAlister, his business partner and the woman he’s mustering the courage to court, he believes he can finally rid the world of a bloodthirsty felon. But nothing is ever easy in the Yukon...Categorized as:
historical-fiction industrial-era steampunk action-adventure adult alternate-history book fiction -
The Very First Damned Thing by Jodi Taylor
18 ratingsEver wondered how it all began?It’s two years since the final victory at the Battersea Barricades. The fighting might be finished, but for Dr Bairstow, just now setting up St Mary's, the struggle is only beginning... -
All Clear by Connie Willis
24 ratingsIn Blackout, award-winning author Connie Willis returned to the time-traveling future of 2060—the setting for several of her most celebrated works—and sent three Oxford historians to World War II England: Michael Davies, intent on observing heroism during the Miracle of Dunkirk; Merope Ward, studying children evacuated from London; and Polly Churchill, posing as a shopgirl in the middle of the... -
The Bride Wore Constant White by Shelley Adina
6 ratingsBook one of the Mysterious Devices series of clockwork cozies set in the Magnificent Devices world!A bride in search of safety. Young ladies in search of their father. A man in search of self-respect. But in the Wild West, you always find more than you’re looking for.. -
Chasing the Green Fairy by Melanie Karsak
6 ratingsA sabotaged airship.A recovering opium addict.A messenger with life-shattering news.With the 1824 British airship qualifying race only weeks away, Lily Stargazer is at the top of her game. She’s racing like a pro, truly in love, and living clean. But on one ill-omened day, everything changes...Categorized as:
historical-fiction industrial-era steampunk action-adventure adult alternate-history audiobook book -
-
Fields of Gold by Shelley Adina
6 ratingsBook 12 in the Magnificent Devices steampunk series!If a wedding won’t stop a war, what will?Gloria Meriwether-Astor’s belief in doing the right thing has carried her across the world and through dangers that would have felled a lesser woman. She believed that if she married the dashing Captain Fremont, she could approach the Viceroy of the Royal Kingdom of Spain and the Californias with impunity... -
Do Overs: A Time Travel Thriller of Sudden Second Chances by Jon Spoelstra
6 ratingsTime travel: This is the trip you gotta take. And then when you take it--wham--you are faced with a savage choice of do-overs to correct past blunders. Roy Hobbs blew the cash windfall from his best-seller book. Gone was his money, and then his wife Rachel was murdered with the killer never found. Roy chose to pick up the pieces, riding into his sunset as a crime reporter in a smaller market...Categorized as:
industrial-era steampunk time-travel action-adventure adult alternate-history book fiction -
Sojourn by Jana Oliver
8 ratingsLondon, September 1888. An aged Queen Victoria rules. The threat of anarchy hovers in the air. A new kind of evil lurks in the back alleys of Whitechapel. Enter Jacynda Lassiter, a Time Rover on a mission find an overdue tourist' and return him to 2057 before he changes history. Victorian London is a dangerous place for the unwary... -
A Lady of Integrity by Shelley Adina
10 ratingsBook 7 in the Magnificent Devices steampunk series! Will a daring rescue put a wedding and a future at risk? Lady Claire Trevelyan and renowned scientist Andrew Malvern are looking forward to domestic felicity in London when they are surprised by an unexpected visitor... -
The Change by S.M. Stirling
10 ratingsALL-NEW STORIES OF THE EMBERVERSEby S.M. Stirling, Harry Turtledove, Walter Jon Williams, John Birmingham, John Barnes, Jane Lindskold, and more...S. M... -
Peacemaker by Lindsay Buroker
12 ratingsHalf-breed tinkerer Kali McAlister doesn’t care that the gold rush has stormed into Dawson and prospectors are flooding the north—all she wants is to finish construction of her airship, so she can escape the Yukon and see the world...Categorized as:
historical-fiction humor industrial-era steampunk action-adventure alternate-history book comedy -
Hunted by Lindsay Buroker
14 ratingsSelf-taught tinkerer Kali McAlister is determined to build an airship and escape the frigid Yukon forever. Unfortunately, she’s the heir to the secrets of flash gold, an alchemical energy source that tends to make her a popular target for bandits, gangsters, and pirates...Categorized as:
historical-fiction humor industrial-era steampunk action-adventure alternate-history book comedy -
Against the Tide of Years by S.M. Stirling
18 ratingsIn the years since the Event, the Republic of Nantucket has done its best to recreate the better ideas of the modern age. But the evils of its time resurface in the person of William Walker, renegade Coast Guard officer, who is busy building an empire for himself based on conquest by technology... -
Starcross by Philip Reeve
14 ratingsArt, Myrtle, and their mother accept the kind invitation of a holiday to an up-and-coming asteroid resort... -
Mothstorm by Philip Reeve
14 ratingsA sinister cloud had appeared on the edge of the Solar System, and seemed to be moving closer. Rather than sit idly by, my family and I decided that we should investigate whatever monstrous force of darkness hid within... -
-
The Quantum Curators and the Fabergé Egg by Eva St. John
12 ratingsDeath or Glory – just another day in the office.When a priceless Fabergé egg comes to light everyone is after it. Neith Salah is a quantum curator. It's her mission to get the egg; she doesn’t know what it looks like, or where it is, but she knows it’s not on her earth.Julius Strathclyde lives on a parallel earth... -
The Diamond Conspiracy by Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris
12 ratingsFor years, the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences has enjoyed the favor of Her Majesty the Queen. But even the oldest loyalties can turn in a moment…Having narrowly escaped the electrifying machinations of Thomas Edison, Books and Braun are looking forward to a relaxing and possibly romantic voyage home. But when Braun’s emergency signal goes off, all thoughts of recreation vanish...Categorized as:
historical-fiction humor industrial-era steampunk time-travel action-adventure adult alpha-mc -
Gods and Pawns by Kage Baker
10 ratingsIn the Company, you're either a God or a Pawn, but sometimes you have to be both. The eight stories, reprinted for the first time in this collection delve further into the history and exploits of the Company and its operatives, including Mendoza, Lewis, and Alec...Categorized as:
historical-fiction time-travel action-adventure adult alternate-history anthologies cyborgs fiction -
The Return of the Discontinued Man by Mark Hodder
10 ratingsSPRING HEELED JACK IS JUMPING BACK!It's 9 p.m. on February 15, 1860, and Charles Babbage, the British Empire's most brilliant scientist, performs an experiment. Within moments, blood red snow falls from the sky and Spring Heeled Jack pops out of thin air in London's Leicester Square... -
1636: The Chronicles of Dr. Gribbleflotz by Kerryn Offord, Rick Boatright
8 ratingsA sparkling addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire alternate history series created by Eric Flint. An alchemist of the 17th century confronts modern science with often amusing results.Phillip Theophrastus Gribbleflotz, the world's greatest alchemist and a great-grandson of Paracelsus—and a Bombast on his mother's side—was a man history had forgotten... -
The Rise of the Automated Aristocrats by Mark Hodder
8 ratingsHaving returned from his expedition to the future, Burton reveals to the authorities what he witnessed there. In response, prime minister Disraeli initiates a programme whereby the empire's elite have their consciousnesses transferred into mechanical bodies, thereby ensuring eternal rule. As a brutal plutocracy emerges, Burton and Swinburne find themselves leading a revolution... -
Centurion's Rise by Mark Henrikson
8 ratingsOrigins Series ContinuesROME. The mere mention of the name instills images of grandeur. The mighty empire was a guiding light for the civilized world for a thousand years. Was that by chance or careful design? A psychiatric patient named Hastelloy has the answer. He believes he was there for it all: Caesar, legions, gladiators...Categorized as:
historical-fiction time-travel action-adventure adult alternate-history book fiction historical -
Operation: Endgame by Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris
6 ratingsJoin Agents Books and Braun on their final adventure with the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences!There is no time to rest for Eliza D Braun and Wellington Thornhill Books. The man who has haunted and hounded them since the fall of the Maestro, Doctor Henry Jekyll, is now on a killing spree, using bizarre, theatrical murders as a way to taunt their inability to capture the... -
The Danish Scheme by Herb Sakalaucks, Eric Flint
6 ratingsSomething new is brewing in the 17th century! Fans of the 1632 series have often asked "What's going on in North America?" Herbert Sakalauks has set out to let you know in his short novel "The Danish Scheme... -
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
18 ratingsThere is a secret passage through time...and it leads all the way to the end of Eternity. But the journey has a terrible cost. It alters not only the future but the "present" in which we live.A century after the publication of H. G... -
-
Magnificent Devices by Shelley Adina
16 ratingsAn air voyage to remember turns into a disaster no one may survive.With her orphaned charges, Lady Claire Trevelyan joins the Earl of Dunsmuir’s family on an airship voyage to the Americas. If she can stay out of Lord James Selwyn’s way until her eighteenth birthday, she will be of age and cannot be forced into marriage...Categorized as:
historical-fiction humor industrial-era steampunk action-adventure alternate-history audiobook book -
The Grapple by Harry Turtledove
14 ratingsIn this stunning retelling of World War II, Harry Turtledove has created a blockbuster saga that is thrilling, troubling, and utterly compelling... -
The Guns Above by Robyn Bennis
12 ratingsThe nation of Garnia has been at war for as long as Auxiliary Lieutenant Josette Dupre can remember – this time against neighboring Vinzhalia. Garnia’s Air Signal Corp stands out as the favored martial child of the King. But though it’s co-ed, women on-board are only allowed “auxiliary” crew positions and are banned from combat... -
End of the Beginning by Harry Turtledove
12 ratingsSix weeks ago, Imperial Japanese military forces conquered and occupied the Hawaiian Islands. A puppet king sits on Hawaii’s throne, his strings controlled by the general of the invasion force. American POWs, malnourished and weak, are enslaved as hard laborers until death takes them. Civilians fare little better, struggling to survive on dwindling resources... -
The Martian Emperor by Andrew Mayne
12 ratingsDescription from the author's website:Who is the Martian Emperor?When a giant airship descends on New York City in 1892 and threatens destruction if the world doesn’t submit to the Martian flag, it’s up to the mysterious Smith, inventor and adventurer to find out what forces are at work... -
The Secret of Abdu El-Yezdi by Mark Hodder
12 ratingsBurton & Swinburne return in a new series! The Beast is coming. History will be remade. Since the assassination of Queen Victoria in 1840, a cabal of prominent men-including King George V, HRH Prince Albert, Benjamin Disraeli, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel-has received guidance from the Afterlife...
Or - use our amazing romance book finder to get recommendations based on your favorite content tropes and themes. Mix and match at will.