A Catalogue of Catastrophe (St. Mary’s #13)

A Catalogue of Catastrophe is the latest offering from the wonderful Jodi Taylor. The 13th novel in the St. Mary's series has finally arrived and once again features the Disaster Magnets and the irrepressible Dr "Max" Maxwell. A Catalogue of Catastrophe sees Max and the equally irrepressible Markham in their new roles away from St. Mary's. Despite…

Just One Damned Thing After Another (St. Mary’s #1)

Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor is the first book set at St Mary's Institute of Historical Research. The book introduces us to protagonist and historian, Dr Madeleine "Max" Maxwell as she is recruited to St. Mary's and discovers that she won't just be studying history from now on, but will also…

Jodi Taylor’s The Nothing Girl: A Jane Eyre Inspired Fairy Tale for Adults?

Reader, I fire-trucking love Charlotte Brontë. There’s a sentence I never thought I would write. An author famous for her strong heroines, misfits and outcasts trying to find a place in the world, and toying with her reader’s emotions like a cat with a mouse (I’m sorry, who is that in the attic?! You can’t end Villette like that!).…