Just read the whole Chronicles of St Mary's series. What next?

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Real life is quite disappointing!

I found it due to an Amazon advert, the first book was 99p.

If anyone else enjoyed it, can you recommend anything else for me to read please?

I’ve got the batteries barricades short story waiting on my kindle, but I need to finish my current book first, discovery of witches

Thanks to this and other threads over the years I have started this series. On book 2 and am trying to tell myself I will pace myself and alternate each St M's book with a different book... We'll see.
Loving it far more than I thought I would! Thank you MN for introducing me to this tea obsessed gem!

I downloaded the first St Mary's last night and I've spent the day snatching time to read it. Thank you for the recommendation.

Yay!! More people join the club!!

I finished the latest St M this morning and have been whinging to OH "I've finished my book!"

I still have the short story "The Battersea Barricades" to read though, but I'm trying to put it off. I think I'll just start the whole series all over again....

I have the latest St Mary’s on my kindle, but haven’t read it yet. I never like reading the latest in a series until I know there’s going to be another one. I still haven’t read the Shardlake book Lamentations for the same reason.

I have found my people.

Terry Pritchett gets referenced a fair bit in St Mary's, you could do a help of a lot worse than to give him a go.

Jodi Taylor also wrote the Nothing Girl and sequels. And something by Isobelle Barclay....

The Nightside series by Simon R. Green is well worth checking out.

I have read all of TCOSM (including the short stories) apart from the latest novel, which I'm saving as a comfort read for a rainy day.

I love almost everything about them, but I struggle with...

Spoiler alert....

...the divergence from our timeline part of the way through the series. All the references to what has happened in the US, the recent civil uprisings in the UK etc. I just find it unnecessary and a bit confusing.

Totally agree with the timeline divergent. Really cheating.

My big fear is that young Matthew will gave timeline magic powers. We know he is good at manipulating the time map but I really really hope it doesn't go that way.

SPOILER

Why did the time police not find Max?

I thought Matthew would find her.

Another St Mary’s obsessive here. Found it after a recommendation somewhere on Mumsnet, got the first three as a bundle deal on Kindle and now own the entire lot.

I like Lindsay Davis Falco series and Flavia Albia follow ups.
And a heavy sprinkling of Sir Terry

How about the Outlander series? Warning though, if you're an obsessive reader (like me) you'll lose about 2 months of your life to this series, but they're very well written. They're more "dug in for the long haul" than St Mary's, I'd echo the Connie Willis Blackout and All Clear books for more of a visiting the past for research approach.

I'd been saving An Argumentation of Historians for a rainy day, as TCOSM is my comfort reading.

Currently have one child in the middle of GCSEs and another in the middle of A-levels, so I decided that this week qualified.

I loved it so much. I laughed (several times) and nearly cried once or twice.

Bumping this rather old thread to remind everyone that the (somewhat aptly named for a book released in the middle of a pandemic) latest St Mary's is out on Thursday!! So, the next question is how much of my day can I spend pretending to work while actually curled up with Plan For The Worst?

While thinking about Jonathon Stroud his Bartimaeus trilogy is excellent - there is a 4th book but that is a standalone Bartimaeus story set in ancient Egypt.