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    My Name is Markham

    By Jodi Taylor

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    Like a smaller and much scruffier Greta Garbo – finally – Markham speaks!

    It’s Christmas and time for the first (and almost certainly last) St Mary’s Annual Children’s Christmas Party – attendance compulsory, by order of Dr Bairstow. Discovered practising his illegal reindeer dance and poo-dropping routine, our hero, along with fellow disaster-magnets Peterson and Maxwell, is despatched to Anglo-Saxon England to discover the truth about Alfred and the cakes.

    In his own words, our hero reveals Major Guthrie’s six-point guide to a successful assignment and the Security Section’s true opinion of the History Department. And of historians in general. And of one historian in particular.

    And, just to be clear, it is time travel, for God’s sake. Forget all that pretentious ‘investigating major historical events in contemporary time’ rubbish.

    This is history without the capital ‘H’. Because this is the way the Security Section rolls!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAccent Press
    Release dateDec 25, 2016
    ISBN9781682994740
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    • 3/5
      Another short story featuring the intrepid time travelers at St. Mary's. This one falls between the seventh and eighth full-length novels. In a twist, it is narrated not by Maxwell, Chief Historian and Primary Screw-up, but by Markham, hapless member of the Security Section who seems to trail mayhem wherever he goes. In this installment, where he goes is back to the 9th century with Maxwell and Peterson to discover the true story of King Alfred and the burnt cakes. The usual cockups ensue; a more rigorous reader might wonder how it is that every trip these historians take ends up with them substantially altering the historical timeline when that supposedly is the one thing that can never happen, but it's best not to dwell on such uncharitable thoughts. Back at St. Mary's, a holiday party for local kiddies is marred (or saved, depending on your point of view) by a faux reindeer dancing the can-can and spewing black-olive poo. So, pretty much business as usual.
    • 4/5
      My name is Markham and I am a recovering security agent sets the tone. and, we are off on another delightful vignette from Jody Taylor.
    • 5/5
      Oh my. A jaunt into the past by the St. Mary's crew; a really nice close encounter with a major historic figure; chaos and calamity with a happy ending – it must be Christmas! Well, it was when it was released, and it was in the story, at least. By now, the crew of St. Mary's are dear old friends, and it's tremendous to get inside Markham's head for this go-round. (If Ms. Taylor ever gets bored, she could start from the beginning of the story and flip POV's – [book:Just One Damned Thing After Another] through Dr Bairstow's eyes, for example… Oo. That would be fun. And this is fun. More fun than should be lawful. Chaotic, hilarious, moving, exciting – my lord, I love these books. I was a little sad going into this because it wasn't narrated by Ms. Taylor's usual St. Mary's narrator, Zara Ramm – but she's Max, so that would be silly, so they got Piers Wehner. And … Someone, please, I'm begging you, find him many, many more books to read to me. I was going to say "books like this", but nobody does it like Jodi Taylor, and Jodi Taylor mostly uses Max's point of view, so he won't have much work there – but this man needs more books that let him be funny. More books, period. He's terrific. He was thoroughly in character, giving a little laugh here and there, putting in exactly the right pauses and inflections. Whoever is doing the casting for Jodi Taylor's audiobooks must absolutely love her, because every single book has been nearly perfect at worst. Although I've got every one of Jodi Taylor's books, I've never read a word she's written, just because of this. And I've loved every word.