Long Story Short
Long Story Short brings together seven St Mary’s pieces and a visit to Frogmorton Farm, accompanied by Taylor’s introductions.
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Long Story Short brings together seven St Mary’s pieces and a visit to Frogmorton Farm, accompanied by Taylor’s introductions. The collection ranges from the Farrells’ Christmas in Victorian London to an unauthorised expedition to Mars.
Elsewhere, Max’s injury leaves an opening for Markham, Professor Rapson experiments with powdered water, and Little Donkey introduces a Nativity play with thoroughly uncooperative participants. Our view: the attraction is the variety of scale, from family encounters to historical unrest and scientific absurdity.
Readers looking specifically for Jenny and Russell should head to Little Donkey; the other contents belong to St Mary’s. This is a collection to read alongside the relevant novels, with individual story links below helping you choose a suitable stopping point.
The recorded paperback edition has 432 pages, and an ebook is also listed. This page has no separate collection audiobook runtime; the story pages identify the individual recordings available in the catalogue. Check those contents first if you have already bought some of the tales separately.
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- 2019 · publication source ↗
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UK Paperback · Headline Publishing Group
ISBN 9781472266736 · released 11 July 2019
432 pages · Pagination source
Reading-time estimate: 8h 45m–14h 30m at 30–50 pages/hour.
Publisher edition sourceUK Ebook · Headline Publishing Group
ISBN 9781472266743 · released 11 July 2019
Publisher ebook sourceConfirmed premise: Publisher description ↗
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8 stories · — individually marked Finished
Christmas Past
St Mary’s · Suggested after book 8: And the Rest Is History
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Battersea Barricades
St Mary’s · Suggested after book 9: An Argumentation of Historians
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The Steam-Pump Jump
St Mary’s · Suggested after book 9: An Argumentation of Historians
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And Now for Something Completely Different
St Mary’s · Suggested after book 9: An Argumentation of Historians
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When Did You Last See Your Father?
St Mary’s · Suggested after book 10: Hope for the Best
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Desiccated Water
St Mary’s · Suggested after book 7: Lies, Damned Lies, and History
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Markham and the Anal Probing
St Mary’s · Suggested after book 8: And the Rest Is History
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Little Donkey
Frogmorton Farm · Suggested after book 1: The Nothing Girl
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