The Ministry of Time: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025 (International Edition)

A civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry gathering ''expats'' from across history to test whether time-travel is feasible.   Her role is to work as a ''bridge'': living with, supporting and monitoring expat ''1847'' - Commander Graham Gore, a former Victorian polar explorer. Gore, an adventurer by trade, soon adjusts to this bizarre new world of washing machines, feminism and Spotify; and during a long, sultry summer the pair move from awkwardness