To Say Nothing of the Dog, Or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last (Hardcover)

from nillacat

A homage to Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat, a comedy of Victorian manners, a time travel romp, a mystery and a romance. Lady Schrapnell, a wealthy eccentric obsessed with rebuilding Coventry Cathedral, under the guise of an enormous donation to the Oxford History Department of the mid 21s...

from bell7

About fifty years in the future, time travel is not only a reality, it's how historians work - by going back into the past and observing events. Note the key word: observing. They cannot create paradoxes by getting involved or taking things forward in time, or the entire space-time continuum migh...

from eleanor_eader

"A Harmless, necessary cat" ... William Shakespeare Lord, what a brilliantly enjoyable book. Funny, clever, likes cats and dogs, pootles about in boats, uses language and quotations nonchalantly, yet to dazzling effect... it occurs to me that my initial summary of this book would make a great per...

from bell7

About fifty years in the future, time travel is not only a reality, it's how historians work - by going back into the past and observing events. Note the key word: observing. They cannot create paradoxes by getting involved or taking things forward in time, or the entire space-time continuum migh...

from nadineeg

A romp through 19th, 20th and 21st century Oxford and Coventry as time travelling historians attempt to confirm details in order for Coventry Cathedral to be rebuilt as it was before it was des destroyed in WWII. With respectful references to Jerome K Jerome,