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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.

Christmas at St Mary's means an unofficial jump, this time into the path of Queen Boudicca's rebellion. What should have been a simple seasonal jaunt turns into a brutal reminder that even the most festive missions can end in blood, smoke and very hasty exits.

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.

It is Christmas at Frogmorton Farm and the local vicar has the bright idea of borrowing Marilyn the donkey for the nativity play. Jenny knows this can only end badly. Between unpredictable animals, nervous children and wobbly scenery, chaos is guaranteed and the season of goodwill is seriously tested.

On a mission nicknamed Roman Holiday, the historians head out expecting a straightforward observation assignment and a bit of sunshine. Instead they find the usual mix of local unrest, awkward disguises and the nagging feeling that history has other plans for them.

Known to her family as the nothing girl because of her stutter and crippling lack of confidence, Jenny Dove is about to give up when Thomas, an invisible golden horse, quite literally talks her off the ledge. A marriage of convenience to chaotic Russell Checkland and life at Frogmorton Farm bring laughter, danger and the chance to finally become someone.

In this Regency romance, widowed Elinor Bascombe is tied to a failing estate and has learned to expect very little from life. Lord Ryde, long exiled after a scandal, returns only to strip his own property before leaving for America. A chance encounter, a gunshot and an enforced stay in his neglected house drag them into adventure, old mysteries and the possibility of late in life happiness.

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.

Jenny Checkland has settled into married life at Frogmorton Farm, right up until Patagonian attack chickens, new financial worries and a possibly murderous cousin upend everything again. With Russell trying to cope, Thomas offering unhelpful advice and old enemies reappearing, Jenny has to decide what kind of future she wants for herself and her chaotic household.

Elizabeth Cage has always seen things other people cannot, a talent she treats as a secret burden rather than a gift. After the sudden death of her controlling husband, she is drawn into a mysterious research institution that seems far too interested in what she can do. Alone, frightened and unsure who to trust, Elizabeth discovers that silence can be far more dangerous than noise.

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.

Trying to rebuild a life after the events of White Silence, Elizabeth finds herself pulled toward a remote house and a group of people who claim to understand her abilities. Shadows from her past and secrets in the present collide, forcing her and Michael Jones to confront just how far others will go to control them.

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.

Time travel nearly destroyed the world, so the Time Police were created to stop anyone from tampering with history again. Jane, Luke and Matthew are the least promising recruits in the organisation, but when a new threat looms this misfit team may be the only group reckless enough to save the future.

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.

Illegal temporal tourism is booming, and the Time Police need agents who can blend in where respectable officers would stand out. Team 236 are sent undercover to infiltrate a particularly nasty operation, but between personal baggage, shifting loyalties and dangerous clients, surviving the assignment is far from guaranteed.

Back at Frogmorton Farm, Jenny and Russell's daughter Joy is certain she is not being treated like an adult, while Russell is equally sure she is growing up far too fast. As father and daughter clash over Christmas, Thomas steps in, and a family crisis becomes a lesson in listening as well as love.

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.

Elizabeth Cage has never truly understood what she is, only that other people want to use her. In this third instalment she is forced to confront long standing questions about her identity and the forces shaping her life, travelling further from safety than ever before to find answers that may change everything.

Now hailed as heroes and fully fledged Time Police officers, Luke, Jane and Matthew are enjoying their new status until a far more serious threat to the timeline emerges. When old connections tug them in different directions, one member of the team goes missing and another faces the end of their career before it has really begun.

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.

Disaster has always followed St Mary's, but in this instalment the pace accelerates. From royal courts to ruined cities, Max faces a string of missions where every small choice seems to spawn another crisis, and a quiet conspiracy threatens everything the institute has built.

A routine operation to arrest a minor criminal selling fake historical artefacts spirals into the worst day the Time Police have faced. An officer is attacked inside headquarters, a prisoner ends up dead and an investigation leads to places no one is supposed to go, while Team 236 is threatened with a revelation that could tear them apart.

The Time Police decide to hold their first children's Christmas party, and Lieutenant Grint foolishly allows his softer side to get involved. Bubble universes, missing money, a toad called Mr Fluffy and an over enthusiastic colleague soon have him facing disaster on several fronts, with only his equally chaotic friends to keep him out of prison.

A turf war erupts between St Mary's and the local Women's Institute, also known as the Raffia Mafia, over the proper definition of Christmas pie. Max, Markham, Peterson and Miss Sykes jump to Restoration London in search of the real thing, only to find that the season of goodwill does not extend to time travelling historians.

St Mary's comes under formal investigation when its director is shot and Max is treated as the obvious suspect. To clear her name and protect the institute, she plunges into uprisings and undercover work, confronting a shadowy group determined to rewrite history for its own benefit.

This Christmas collection gathers four connected stories, from a deadly Victorian haunting in The Ordeal of the Haunted Room and rural mayhem in The Toast of Time to Time Police chaos in Santa Grint and a Frogmorton Farm crisis in Joy to the World, offering a festive tour of Taylor's universes.

A ghost train lost somewhere in time would be bad enough, but Luke and Jane are trapped on board with an old enemy and a rapidly fraying partnership. As Grint and the rest of the Time Police scramble to reach them, a botched experiment back at headquarters threatens to expose secrets that should have stayed buried.

A notorious film producer returns to St Mary's with plans to use the institute as the backdrop for his latest project. Max knows this can only end one way. When cameras, egos and time travel collide, the result is a Christmas special full of stunts, misunderstandings and very expensive breakages.

With their children away on a school trip, Jenny and Russell are looking forward to an unusually peaceful weekend at Frogmorton Farm. Then the storm named Christopher rolls in, the power fails, unwelcome visitors arrive and Thomas reappears. In the dark, with the weather howling, long delayed confrontations finally break the surface.

Lady Amelia Smallhope deals with problems by pouring a drink and thinking very hard, while Pennyroyal prefers to claim there is no problem at all. Thrown together as time travelling recovery agents, they chase villains across eras, break every sensible rule and discover that partnership can hurt far more than danger ever did.

In the fourth Elizabeth Cage novel, a Christmas Elizabeth cannot quite remember leaves her waking to fresh blood on the doorstep every morning and a threatening note that appears to be in her own handwriting. As something unpleasant closes in, she must untangle what is real, who is lying and why she may be the one stalking herself.

Hoping to help Max recover from serious injuries, Leon books them a quiet holiday at a Devon manor house in 1924. Their fellow guests look like a classic country house cast, and when a body appears Max realises they have walked straight into a murder mystery where Leon is the only one without an alibi.

In this Time Police mission, the past refuses to stay politely in its own lane. A dead dinosaur in the wrong era, rumours about Romulus, plots around the Princes in the Tower and a sickly looking time map all point to something badly wrong with history itself, and Team 236 must work out what before everything collapses.

The Sands of Time is an anthology of science fiction stories inspired by David Sands from the Chronicles of St Mary's. Written by a range of contributors and introduced by Taylor, it showcases inventive, time tinged tales, with profits supporting a charity focused on disabled people.

Still healing from a near fatal shooting, Lady Amelia Smallhope dreams of quiet days and margaritas in the sun. When someone digs into Pennyroyal's past and systematically strips away their safety nets, the pair are forced onto the offensive, following a dangerous trail through time to find out who would dare come for them.