{"id":3995,"date":"2025-03-02T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3995"},"modified":"2025-03-02T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T09:23:00","slug":"the-ministry-of-time-kaliane-bradley-at-the-culture-lab-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3995","title":{"rendered":"<h6>The Ministry of Time: Kaliane Bradley in conversation with Alex Pheby<\/h6> at The Culture Lab Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fsn-row full-width-row fsn-69f7160ed1f46 light\" style=\"background-repeat:repeat;background-position:left top;background-attachment:scroll;background-size:auto;\"><div class=\"container-fluid\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-sm-12\"><div class=\"fsn-column-inner fsn-69f7160ed2075 light\"><div class=\"fsn-code fsn-69f7160ed212b\"><div style=\"padding:62.5% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1061630823?h=89b867009a&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"28 1. 24 NCLA\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/div><div class=\"fsn-text fsn-69f7160ed21a7\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen1994491_798=\"1195\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time1994491_798=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired1994491_798=\"1\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen1994491_451=\"1196\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time1994491_451=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired1994491_451=\"1\">An instant New York Times and Sunday Times Bestseller Shortlisted for the Waterstone\u2019s Debut Fiction Prize 2024<\/h2>\n<h3>\u2018Fast moving and riotously entertaining, a genre-busting blend of wit and wonder\u2019 Observer<\/h3>\n<p>A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all: welcome to The Ministry of Time. Inspired by the work of Terry Pratchett, this rollicking and sexy sci-fi debut is the story of Gore, a Victorian polar explorer who is \u2018expatriated\u2019 (forcibly captured) from 1847 to the 2020s as part of a government experiment to test the feasibility of time-travel; and an unnamed civil servant, his \u2018bridge\u2019, a former Ministry of Defence translator whose job for the next year is to live with, report on and help Gore assimilate to the twenty-first century. Arriving to major excitement in the UK, the book has been published in the USA and in 20 languages (and counting) worldwide. It will soon be on screen in a major BBC TV adaptation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kaliane Bradley<\/strong>\u00a0is a British-Cambodian writer and editor based in London. Her short stories have appeared in Electric Literature and Catapult among others. She was the winner of the 2022 Harper\u2019s Bazaar Short Story Prize and the 2022 V. S. Pritchett Short Story Prize, and selected as one of the Observer\u2019s 10 best debut novelists of 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alex Pheby<\/strong>\u00a0is Head of Creative Writing in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University and Co-Director of NCLA.<\/p>\n<p>This event took place in the Culture Lab on the 28th of November 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3995"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4023,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions\/4023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}