The chronicles of St Mary's

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Loving this series. Anyone else?

I loved the first one. Stalled on the second one a bit and got a bit confused by all the characters. Love the concept though.

I am a huge fan. I get quite excited every time a new novel is published. I follow JT on Fb and she seems nice in RL.

I love the Chronicles of St Mary's! I think I discovered them after a recommendation on MN. I'm really excited about the next one, due out on 28th Aug.

I've read her other stuff too, "The Nothing Girl" is just lovely and the one she wrote as "Isabella Barclay" () is pretty good too.

I love the Chronicles series. So much so that I bought the audio books too.

In fact I've just pre-ordered the latest short story in the series this evening It's due out in November!

I love them, too. I read the first one last month's, and had read everything she's written by the end of a fortnight!

I love them!! I think they would make an amazing tv series - there is so much potential :)

I think they'd be very expensive to film. So many different historical costumes and locations, and big battle scenes.

I agree it is a great series. Great characters, angst and real laugh out loud funny moments. And as a historian, I can say that the history's very good, too - at least, it is for the periods I know something about.

I've enjoyed them, courtesy of someone on here (thank you!).

The Nothing Girl is just marvellous as well, it really got me.

I've just read the first one, it was ok, but can't say I'm desperate to read the next

I'm enjoying them. And a lot of the shorts are free on Audible, plus the longer ones are on sale too. I don't think I'd have the patience to listen to a whole book, I much prefer to read long books as I'm a fast reader, but the shorts are just perfect to listen to in one sitting while I crochet.

Personally, I think the series got better from about book 3 onwards, but that may be because it took me that long to get used to the huge cast of characters.

They are available in bundles for 99p on kindle at the moment, I think.

Personally, I think the series got better from about book 3 onwards, but that may be because it took me that long to get used to the huge cast of characters.

Yes, it took me a while to sort everyone out. But I found them well worth re-reading, to remind myself of who the characters are, and also because there are several plot strands to keep up with. The funny bits are still funny on second and third reading, too.

Can anyone point me to the funny bits? I seem to have missed them

Have you read the short story 'Roman Holiday'?

Just downloaded first one for holiday. Will report back.

It's fairly dry humour Costa, quite English I think, lots of social awkwardness, being rude to friends as a sign of affection and understating of dramatic situations. Roman Holiday is a good example, and I thought the narrator on the Audible version was very good and picked up the humour very well.

Oh, must check my passport, maybe I'm not British after all

Maybe it's because I'm not English that I think it's amusing. It is light amusement though, not Bill Bryson embarrass myself by laughing out loud on the tube funny.

I'm pretty sure I laughed out loud when Maxwas at Thermopylae and was so well disguised as a rock that a Persian soldier pissed on her and she had to stay completely still. . I have a 5 yr old's love of toilet humour.

I am currently reading Snuff by Robert Rankin. it us completely whacky band if you like St Mary's, Discworld or Rivers of London chances are you will enjoy Rankin.

The new one has just arrived on my Kindle. Should I:

Go to bed now and wait until tomorrow to read it, when I can have cake or chocolate to go with it,

Or,

Stay up and read it now?

I started right away and was literally laughing out loud by page 10 !

You have all just reminded me to check if I have the new one on my kindle and it is downloading as we speak. It will give me something good to read at the hospital tomorrow