About this Event
We are delighted to welcome newcomers Kaliane Bradley and Juli Min to Deansgate in celebration of their highly anticipated debut novels, and .
About The Ministry of Time
A BOY MEETS A GIRL. THE PAST MEETS THE FUTURE. A FINGER MEETS A TRIGGER. THE BEGINNING MEETS THE END. ENGLAND IS FOREVER. ENGLAND MUST FALL.
In the near future, a disaffected civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry, designed to gather 'expats' from across history to test the limits of time-travel.
Her role is to work as a 'bridge': living with, assisting and monitoring the expat known as '1847' - Commander Graham Gore who (as far as history is concerned) died on Sir John Franklin's doomed expedition to the Arctic.
This extraordinarily assured debut blends love story, time-travelling tale and state-of-the-nation commentary to terrifyingly clever and ferociously funny effect.
About Shanghailanders
'The future contained in the past, the past contained in the future . . .'
2040: Leo Yang - handsome, distinguished, a real Shanghai man - is on the train back to the city after seeing his family off at the airport. His wife, Eko, and their two eldest children, Yumi and Yoko, are headed for Boston, though one daughter's revelation will soon reroute them to Paris.
2039: Kiko, their youngest daughter and an aspiring actress, decides to pursue fame at any cost, like her icon Marilyn Monroe.
2038: Yumi comes to Yoko in need, after a college-dorm situation at Harvard goes disastrously wrong.
Unspooling backwards through time, Min's entrancing Shanghai-set novel of the shared and separate lives of the Yang family depicts the love, frustrations and secrets that connect those who share the same blood.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Waterstones, 91 Deansgate, Manchester, United Kingdom
GBP 5.00
