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Time to Burn

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If the past catches up with you, time travel can be murder . . . London, the present day: commercial time travel is a reality. Tempus Tours - owned by controversial tech entrepreneur Inigo Frank - offers the wealthy a chance to relive history. Harry Allen,... Read More
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This smart, twisty, speculative thriller casts a chilling eye over unchecked power and the dangerous allure of altering history. Utterly absorbing, timely and thrillingly ambitious in equal measure.

From the bestselling authors of R&J pick PEOPLE LIKE HER and Reese Witherspoon pick THE CLUB comes a thrilling speculative new novel.

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If the past catches up with you, time travel can be murder . . .

London, the present day: commercial time travel is a reality.

Tempus Tours - owned by controversial tech entrepreneur Inigo Frank - offers the wealthy a chance to relive history.

Harry Allen, esteemed property mogul, is celebrating his birthday by taking a few guests, including his troubled son Luke, and Luke's fiancΓ© Sasha, back to the London Blitz in March 1941. They will dine in luxury at the CafΓ© de Paris before witnessing the terrifying spectacle of the city's aerial bombardment.

But things go catastrophically wrong when Luke stumbles and injures himself in the smoky darkness.

Back in the present day, all hell breaks loose as the team realise that Sasha remains missing in 1941. As Sasha's actions begin to twist history, journalist Victoria Hunt, stationed at Tempus HQ, watches her present reality subtly, then devastatingly shift.

Can Victoria stop the ripple effect before she loses everything - and everyone - she holds dear?

Time to Burn by Ellery Lloyd is a thrilling exploration of the dangers and dilemmas of time travel, combining historical suspense with modern-day intrigue.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035021000

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 September 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Macmillan

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Ellery Lloyd is the pseudonym for London-based husband-and-wife writing team Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos. Collette is a journalist and editor, former content director of ELLE UK and editorial director at Soho House. She has written for The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times. Paul is the author of two previous novels, Welcome to the Working Week and Every Day Is Like Sunday. He is the programme director for English literature with creative writing at the University of Surrey.

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