Chronicles Of St. Mary's Books in Order

Now a fully fledged St Mary's historian, Max hurtles from fog shrouded Victorian London in search of Jack the Ripper to the murder of Thomas Becket and an ill advised encounter with dodos. An old enemy resurfaces, and protecting St Mary's may mean risking the whole of history.

When historian Max Maxwell is recruited by the secretive St Mary's Institute of Historical Research, she discovers that history is studied up close and in person. Her first jumps, from medieval England to dinosaur infested prehistory, prove that time travel, office politics and survival make a very volatile mix.

Max leads jumps to seventeenth century Cambridge to meet Isaac Newton, witnesses catastrophe at the Gates of Grief and finally reaches the long promised Trojan War. Faced with history's bloodiest moments and a terrible personal loss, she has to decide what a second chance is really worth.

Reality has started to fray for Max, and an enemy who knows far too much is hunting her through the ages. From Roman Britain to the Blitz, she and her allies race along a trail of altered timelines, trying to put history back together before St Mary's itself is erased.

In this St Mary's Christmas special, Max and the team head out on what should be a simple seasonal jump. Naturally it delivers blood soaked history, bad weather, too much tinsel and the reminder that even at Christmas the past is never safe or simple.

St Mary's is back in business after rebuilding, and Max is juggling an ill fated fete, a trip to the Great Fire of London and a comfort break that nearly derails the Battle of Thermopylae. Everyday life at the institute has rarely been more dangerous or more entertaining.

Christmas at St Mary's means an illegal jump, this time to retrieve a misplaced gun from ancient Egypt before it can damage the timeline. Between sandstorms, poisonings and wedding chaos, Max and her crew once again prove that nothing involving St Mary's ever goes smoothly.

This prequel shows how St Mary's became the disaster magnet readers know. Dr Bairstow assembles his first ragtag team, battles sceptical backers and tests the earliest time pods, discovering that stolen furniture, experimental tea urns and risky field trips are baked into the institute from the start.

Promoted to Chief Training Officer, Max must turn a batch of keen but hapless recruits into functioning St Mary's historians. Their curriculum includes Joan of Arc, Stone Age hunters and a very large mammoth, and every lesson proves that training other people can be far worse than risking your own neck.

Max has never been good with rules, but one reckless decision leaves ruined lives and wrecked timelines in its wake. Grounded and under scrutiny, she has to find a way to repair the damage while enemies circle and the future of St Mary's hangs in the balance.

Seen through Markham's eyes, this novella follows St Mary's most incorrigible security officer as he attempts to survive Christmas, weddings and a mission that goes sideways in record time. It is part love letter, part disaster report and entirely St Mary's.

A supposedly harmless staff outing turns into a masterclass in how St Mary's can find trouble anywhere. What begins as a day trip rapidly involves lost historians, local authorities and more destruction than any picnic should reasonably cause.

On what should be a routine assignment, Max and her team find themselves caught between appalling weather, local trouble and the ever present risk of nudging history off course. The storm outside mirrors the tensions inside St Mary's as loyalties are quietly tested.

Old scores come due when St Mary's faces its most determined enemy head on. Max and her colleagues fight on multiple fronts in multiple eras, with the fate of the institute and the people she loves balanced on a series of brutal, time bending choices.

This collection gathers early St Mary's short stories, from Christmas capers and Roman misadventures to a very first day out for the historians. It is a quick way to sample the series' blend of chaos, history and deadpan humour in bite sized form.

A simple jump leaves Max stranded far from home with no obvious way back to her own time. As colleagues argue over how to rescue her and outside forces move in, she discovers just how tangled the web of St Mary's past and future has become.

In search of a fresh twist on the traditional Christmas jump, Max and her colleagues find themselves gate crashing someone else's illegal expedition. Swapped snow for red dust, they end up on a perilous side trip that proves Mars is no place for under prepared historians.

Set during the Battersea uprising, this story looks back at a younger generation fighting on the streets long before St Mary's existed in its current form. It gives glimpses of familiar names in their radical youth and shows how revolution looks from ground level.

Laid up in Sick Bay and technically forbidden from fieldwork, Max still manages to involve herself when an experiment with Victorian engineering goes wrong. With Markham improvising in the field and St Mary's leaking chaos at every seam, even a short hop turns hazardous.

As St Mary's faces pressure from both the future and the past, Max is pulled into a chase that crosses centuries and worlds. Old enemies, new alliances and a mission that changes everything force her to decide how much she is willing to sacrifice for the institute.

This second St Mary's collection brings together later short stories, including Christmas chaos in Victorian London, civil uprisings, experimental powdered water and an unforgettable nativity play. It is a fast moving companion for readers who want more history soaked mayhem in smaller doses.

Max has survived dinosaurs, battles and bureaucrats, but introducing her husband to her father may be the most nerve wracking mission yet. A family encounter collides with St Mary's uncompromising attitude to people it does not like, with predictably unpredictable results.

A straightforward task for St Mary's, complete with clear instructions and a simple objective, unravels almost immediately. What follows is an object lesson in how minor complications, awkward relatives and the odd assassination attempt can turn simplicity into utter chaos.

Max has learned to hope for the best while planning for disaster, but even she is not ready for the revelations that follow a fateful night at the Tower of London. With trust shattered and the future uncertain, St Mary's must fight on more than one front at once.

A Victorian country house, a murderous family legend and a storm raging outside should make for a perfect Christmas jump. When Max and her companions agree to stand in for a nervous heir during his traditional ordeal, they uncover something far nastier than a campfire ghost story.

Jobless and cut loose from St Mary's, Max is offered a new role that may not be as generous as it seems. From Tudor England to the Tower of Babel, she has to navigate unfamiliar power structures, old friends and dangerous temptations without the safety net of her old life.

Max and Markham plan their first Christmas away from St Mary's, hoping for something almost normal. Instead they acquire a legendary sword, a Fabergé egg, a belligerent ram and a fresh appreciation for how hard it is to have a quiet life when time travel is involved.