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Bruce Macfarlane

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http://www.timetraveldiaries.co.uk

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The Time Travel Diaries –Recommended Reading Order:

Out of Time
A Drift Out of Time
A House Out of Time
The Space Between Time
The Time Palace of Mars
Silicon Abbey

Bruce Macfarlane is the author of the humorous and sometimes romantic Time Travel Diaries of James Urquhart, a scientist, living in the 21st century and Elizabeth Bicester, a Victorian Cambridge graduate whom he accidently met at a cricket match in 1873.

He spent most of his working life in radiation protection and emergency planing with the nuclear industry, and is now enjoying retirement with his wife, Julia, and their cockapoo, Lulu, on the south coast of West Sussex, just a few minutes’ walk from the sea.

A life of writing scientific reports and reading early science fiction, especia ...more

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	Out of Time 3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Space Between Time 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2017 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Drift Out of Time 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Three Tales Out of Time 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Time Travel Diaries Trilogy: From the Time Travel Diaries of James Urquhart and Elizabeth Bicester 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I suppose the first thing one should make clear is this: I did not set out to become a time traveller. Nor did I intend to marry a gentleman who regards unfamiliar contrivances as personal challenges and who believes that any button labelled Play is placed there expressly for his moral testing. Yet Providence, time, and a butterfly o

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Clown Town (Slough House #9)

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