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The Ballad of Smallhope and Pennyroyal

Meet your favourite new partners-in-crime in 2024’s most hilarious time-travel caper
By Jodi Taylor
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From the globally bestselling author of the Chronicles of St Mary's and Time Police series - the origin story of bounty hunters extraordinaire: Smallhope and Pennyroyal. "Clever, funny and made my heart hurt in the best way" - STEPHANIE BUTLAND * Meet Lady Amelia Smallhope, for... Read More
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A St Mary's and Time Police spinoff - the origin story of everyone's favourite bounty hunters: Smallhope and Pennyroyal.

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From the globally bestselling author of the Chronicles of St Mary's and Time Police series - the origin story of bounty hunters extraordinaire: Smallhope and Pennyroyal.

"Clever, funny and made my heart hurt in the best way" - STEPHANIE BUTLAND

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Meet Lady Amelia Smallhope, for whom there is no problem that can't be solved by a drink and a think.

And Pennyroyal, for whom there is no problem. Ever.

Everyone's favourite bounty hunters. Sorry - recovery agents. No bad guy they can't handle. No expense account too flexible. No adventure too outrageous.

Join them as they settle scores, break every rule in the book and take the world by storm.

Fasten your seatbelts. The timeline doesn't know what's hit it.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035415908

Publisher: Headline Publishing Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 September 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Headline Book Publishing

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 38.0mm

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 540g

Pages: 464

Collections

Fantasy Fiction General Fiction Historical Fiction Jodi Taylor Literary Fiction Sci-Fi & Fantasy Science Fiction

About the Author

Jodi Taylor is the internationally bestselling author of the Chronicles of St Mary's series, the story of a bunch of disaster prone individuals who investigate major historical events in contemporary time. Do NOT call it time travel! She is also the author of the Time Police series - a St Mary's spinoff and gateway into the world of an all-powerful, international organisation who are NOTHING like St Mary's. Except, when they are.

Alongside these, Jodi is known for her gripping supernatural thrillers featuring Elizabeth Cage together with the enchanting Frogmorton Farm series - a fairy story for adults.

Born in Bristol and now living in Gloucester (facts both cities vigorously deny), she spent many years with her head somewhere else, much to the dismay of family, teachers and employers, before finally deciding to put all that daydreaming to good use and write a novel. Over twenty books later, she still has no idea what she wants to do when she grows up.

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