The Past Master

Patience Agbabi

The Past Master by Patience Agbabi (Paperback ISBN 9781838855819) book cover

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Elle and The Infinites are back for a final thrilling adventure! They must leap to the end of time to stop Millennia’s quest for world domination and save the planet

It’s New Year’s Eve and there’s trouble on the timeline. Elle is sent on an urgent trip to the 31st of December 1999, the eve of the new millennium, where Millennia’s on the rampage. She aims to reinvent herself as a malevolent millennial by taking on Time itself.

Can Millennia change the past to destroy the future? It can’t be left to chance. It’s up to Elle and The Infinites to save the world. And with the very nature of time at stake, they’ll have unexpected help from friends in high places.

It’s the final countdown. And it starts now …


“An inspirational, witty read that effortlessly blends rip-roaring adventure with real-life issues, including racial inequality and neurodiversity”
buzz Magazine

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“The latest offerings in her thrilling kids’s debut quartet … [fans will] be feverishly turning the pages”
sunday Post

”Praise for The Time-Thief: An ingenious, exhilarating adventure”
Sophie Anderson, Author Of The House With Chicken Legs

“An adventure so thrilling it makes time fly!”
Ben Miller, Author Of The Boy Who Made The World Disappear

“A time-travel mystery that manages to incorporate criminal masterminds, neurodivergence, racial inequalities, intertemporal friendships and Samuel Johnson – all narrated in Elle’s exuberant and energetic voice. Even better than The Infinite! Loved it!”
Fleur Hitchcock, Author Of The Boy Who Flew


Patience Agbabi

Patience Agbabi was born in London in 1965 to Nigerian parents, spent her teenage years living in North Wales and now lives in Kent with her husband and children. She has been writing poetry for over twenty years, and her first novel for children, The Infinite, the first in the Leap Cycle series, won a Wales Book of the Year Award. Like Elle, she loves sprinting, numbers and pepper soup, but, disappointingly, her leaping is less spectacular.

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