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The Time Travel Diaries

By: Caroline Lawrence
Narrated by: Simon Scardifield
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A SUNDAY TIMES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK

From the author of The Roman Mysteries comes a nail-biting time-travel adventure, set in Roman London - where past meets present.

Billionaire Solomon Daisy is obsessed with the skeleton of a blue eyed African girl from Roman London. When his tech guys accidentally invent a time machine he decides to send London schoolboy Alex Papas on a mission. Time travel is easier for kids, and Alex knows Greek and a little Latin. The portable portal is placed in London's Mithraeum, recently relocated back to its original 3rd century AD site. Now all Alex has to do is go through and find the blue-eyed girl.

There are just three rules:
1. Naked you go and naked you must return.
2. Drink, don't eat.
3. As little interaction as possible.

But Time Travel is fun fair, and there are more ways to die in Roman London than Alex could have guessed. Action & Adventure Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Literature & Fiction Science Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Time Travel Ancient History England
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If you like your historical fiction you’ll love this romp through Roman London. It’s a fast paced story for all ages expertly narrated. It’s quite short but that’s no bad thing for it doesn’t get hung up on detail or unnecessary descriptive narrative. It’s good story, well told at fast pace. There’s plenty of heavy in-depth novels on historical fiction out there but if you want a break from the norm and looking for something a bit more fun then this it.
Looking forward to the upcoming escapades of our two intrepid travellers!

Fantastic Time Travel Romp

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Face paced historical romp enjoyed by my 9 year old. He particularly the disgusting horrible history aspects of Roman life. Well narrated at pace. My only bug bear - this book was on the amazon free to listen list but 3/4 of the way through we had to purchase it to continue listening, I didn't want to disappoint my son so felt obliged to buy. I might have missed the expiry of the free to listen offer - but if I did it certainly wasn't obvious!

My 9 year old enjoyed this book

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We've really loved listening to this story on car journeys. We would both highly recommend it.

a great hit with my 9 year old daughter and me

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Loved it. I have made several visits to the amazing Temple of Mithras and found the story very engaging.

Excellent Story

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Gives an good idea what Roman london was like. Narrator was good enthusiastic but not very good at changing voices.
Most memorable, gory and graphic was the gladiator arena.

Adventurous Story

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