What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

by Jodi Taylor

Paperback, 2017

Call number

823.92

Series

The Chronicles of St Mary's (6)
The Chronicles of St Mary's {Chronological Order} (6)

Tags

st. mary's, 06, science fiction, time travel, time traveling historians, ebook

Genres

Collection

E-books

Publication

Night Shade Books (2017), 360 pages

Description

"The sixth book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone's cup of tea. Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary's Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don't call it "time travel"-these historians "investigate major historical events in contemporary time." And they aren't your harmless eccentrics either; a more accurate description, as they ricochet around history, might be unintentional disaster-magnets. The Chronicles of St. Mary's tells the madcap adventures of Madeleine Maxwell and her compatriots-Director Bairstow, Leon "Chief" Farrell, Mr. Markham, and many more-as they travel through time, saving the St. Mary's Institute (too often by the very seat of their pants) and thwarting time-travelling terrorists, all the while leaving plenty of time for tea. In What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Max is back, with a new husband, a new job, and a training regime that cannot fail. to go wrong. Take one interim chief training officer, add five recruits, and mix with Joan of Arc, a baby mammoth, a duplicitous Father of History, a bombed rat, Stone Age hunters, a couple of passing policemen who should have better things to do, and Dick the Turd. Stir well, bring to a boil-and wait for the bang! Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors"--… (more)

Original language

English

Original publication date

2015-08-20

ISBN

1597808733 / 9781597808736

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LibraryThing member michigantrumpet
From the mouths of the denizens of St. Mary's, "What Could Possibly Go Wrong?" sounds like famous last words indeed. Maxwell is still recovering from a knee injury sustained at the end of the prior book and thus relegated to training the latest crop of historian trainees. Her plan is to front load
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 some easy time travel jumps to hasten their training. What could possibly go wrong? quite a it actually. The Fields of Bosworth, the Buring of Joan of Arc are visited. Wooly mammoths and a dead pig make memorable appearances (if dodos should come to mind ...)

I adore this crew of kick butt time traveling historians, who raise hell, but believe in the healing powers of a good cup of tea. Taylor'sprosedelights with its wry tongue-in-cheek humor reminiscent of P.G. Wodehouse. I recommend.
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LibraryThing member Gwendydd
The series continues to be funny and entertaining! This one had a very final feeling at the end of it... I hope it won't be the last one!
LibraryThing member Catigerine
Such an awesomely awesome series, but now I have to wait till May for the next one, and that makes me sad.
LibraryThing member rosalita
The sixth novel in the St. Mary’s time travel series finds the gang visiting the Valley of the Kings in ancient Egypt, the Pleistocene Era, Joan of Arc’s burning at the stake, and Richard III’s downfall at Bosworth Field. The historical bits are interesting enough to keep the rest from being
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 too formulaic, for now.
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LibraryThing member AuntieClio
Max and those crazy historians of St. Mary’s are back. This installment is almost tame compared to the earlier books. Tame, that is, if you discount the baby mammoth poo all over one of the pods, five trainees being trained by Max, one of the trainees with an agenda of his own having to do with
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 Richard III, and a not so unexpected twist at the end.
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LibraryThing member mountie9
Another outstanding installment of the crazy adventures of my favourite time travelers --- oops I mean Historians. I knew it was going to be fabulous just by the title alone & if you have read any other book in this brilliant series, you know, things ALWAYS go horribly wrong. I have mentioned
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 before that the highlight of this series is the characters and the quick wit and this one does not disappoint. Oh yeah and truly enjoyed the little quip about the Canadian border and umm a Baby Mammoth - no I will not discuss further - all you need to know is -- Baby Mammoth

“Will he be able to understand us, sir? It’s a foreign language over there. I’ve heard they spell plough with a “w”?’ ‘I share your horror,’ he said, ‘but since I have the strongest doubts that anyone in the History Department can spell the word plough in any language, I do not feel this is an insurmountable barrier to admission at St Mary’s.”
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LibraryThing member bell7
The crazy time-travelers - er, sorry, historians who research in contemporary time - of St. Mary's are back. In this one, Max has new trainees under her wing and must take them to various places to prepare them for the rigor of studying history in contemporary time - but there's a mole at St.
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 Mary's and she's also determined to find out who's attempting to take them down!

It's the sixth in the series, so you know the kind of madcap adventure you're in for, right? This is a solid entry into the series, and I'm looking forward to reading more.
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LibraryThing member John_Warner
First, to answer the book's title, everything! When the protagonist, Max, believes that her team's historical excursions will be as easy as 1..2..3, the reader know that they will be anything but. The novel opens with Max being only recently wed and reassigned as Training Officer for five new
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 historian recruits. Max takes her new recruits on "easy" jaunts to observe Stone Age hunters; to converse with the father of history, Herodotus; to view the execution of Joan of Arc; and to find themselves between the warring parties in the War of the Roses. As always the historical events are well researched providing the reader a fun and entertaining medium to learn history.
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LibraryThing member jamespurcell
.How do you train an historian at Saint Mary's? Join a mammoth hunt, attend a saint''s martyrdom and watching the end of the Plantagenet line are all part of the curriculum as Max takes over the Training Department. Interesting twists of our past create a fertile arena for Jodi Taylor to explore;
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 often with startling results.
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LibraryThing member phyllis2779
I liked this more than most of the other books in the series, although I liked most of them enough to continue reading the series. This one was episodic but with a good through line -- the training by Max of new recruits. There is not much of Max and Leon's relationship but that's fine. The other
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 characters, Markham, Peterson and the new recruits are all interesting.
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LibraryThing member CaitZ
What could go wrong? With the crew from St. Mary's - everything. Simple training jumps turn into chaos. I love this series about time-traveling historians
LibraryThing member passion4reading
As a result of events in No Time Like the Past, Max has been given light duties and she and Dr Peterson have swapped roles, meaning that Max is now in charge of five shiny new trainees. As with everything St Mary's does, the training programme is straightforward in theory only ...

Every time I pick
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 up one of the Chronicles of St Mary's, I'm reminded why I love this series so much. What may superficially appear like popcorn fiction is actually a piece of tremendously accomplished writing. In no other series have I cared so deeply for the characters and and laughed so much, nor been reduced to tears so often, and the history is always enlightening. What could easily become farce in the hands of less-skilled authors is never short of entertaining, and provides much-needed comic relief when everything goes disastrously wrong, as it so frequently does when the historians of St Mary's are involved. This book in particular acts as a reminder that the majority of history is actually quite horrible, and that a historian's job is to watch people die in endlessly varied (and usually painful) ways. Some part of me wishes this marvellous series will never end.
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