Mixed Messages Extra: Win a copy of The Ministry of Time
Win a paperback copy of the Women's and Jhalak Prize longlisted novel
Hi, welcome to Mixed Messages Extra! This week, we’re giving you the chance to win a paperback copy of Kaliane Bradley’s hugely popular novel The Ministry of Time.
This week, author Kaliane Bradley spoke about her mixed-Cambodian heritage, sharing her feelings on assumed identities, finding her culture outside of her family and her urgent curiosity.
Kaliane Bradley: "There is so much space, so much capaciousness"
Hi, welcome back to Mixed Messages! This week’s guest is author Kaliane Bradley, who is of mixed-Cambodian and white British heritage.
We also spoke about her debut novel, The Ministry of Time, a sci-fi dystopian genre-defying story with history, romance and time travel.
When 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.
But as the true shape of the project that brought them together begins to emerge, Gore and the bridge are forced to confront their past choices and imagined futures. Can love triumph over the histories that have shaped them? And how do you defy that history when it is living in your house?
Longlisted for the 2025 Women’s, Jhalak and Climate Fiction Prize, shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction and Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award and a Barack Obama reading pick, The Ministry of Time is deserving of all these accolades and them some.
If you haven’t read it already, I’m so excited for you to discover this book. Read on to find out how to win a copy.
