Call Time
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  • Published: 2 May 2023
  • ISBN: 9781405952057
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

Call Time

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Paperback
30 Jul 2024
EBook
2 May 2023
Audiobook
11 May 2023
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Back To The Future meets Call My Agent in this enthralling high-concept debut novel from Channel 4 F1 presenter Steve Jones.

Bob Bloomfield's whole life changed when his little brother Tom was tragically killed in an accident.

Now a ruthless corporate partner at Fitz-Simmons & Bloomfield Entertainment Management, with a \"materially rich, spiritually empty\" existence, Bob has done enough living for two.

But then the impossible happens.

A seemingly ordinary phone allows Bob to connect to the past ... and speak with his twelve-year-old self. And his calls back through time are creating real changes in the present.

Which leaves Bob with two questions:

Can he prevent his brother's death?

And will he like the world he's created if he does?
  • Published: 2 May 2023
  • ISBN: 9781405952057
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
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About the author

Steve Jones

Jones is Professor of Genetics at University College London and has worked at universities in the USA, Australia and Africa. He gave the BBC Reith Lectures in 1991, and presented a successful BBC TV series on human genetics and evolution in 1996. He is a regular columnist for the Daily Telegraph and frequently appears on radio and television. His previous books include The Language of the Genes (which won the 1994 Rhône-Poulenc Science Book Prize) and In the Blood (shortlisted for the 1997 Rhône-Poulenc). He won the 1997 Royal Society Faraday Medal for the Public Understanding of Science.

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Praise for Call Time

Joyously unpredictable, clever, witty and warm. Gorgeous!

Ruth Jones

Funny, fast-paced and moving

Saturday Live

Fantastic! Love it. Makes keeping up with the Jones’s next to impossible

Johnny Vaughan, Radio X

Very funny … echoes of Nick Hornby

You're Booked

A great read. A born writer.

Lorraine Kelly