Timeline

Timeline combines all the ingredients that make Crichton’s books compulsive reading … a brilliantly imagined story * Los Angeles Times *Hollywood’s favourite thriller writer evokes the experience of time travel superbly … a rollicking read * Observer *A thrilling race against time * Daily Express *A cracking thriller * Daily Express *The present and the long-ago past collide [as] three young historians whisk themselves back to fourteenth-century feudal France to rescue a friend - and engulf themselves in all manner of mind-blowing intrigue * Chicago Sun-Times *[A] big rollicking book * The Wall Street Journal *Exciting … classic adventure … [a] swashbuckling novel … Crichton delivers * USA Today *

Born in Chicago in 1942, Michael Crichton first trained as a doctor before going on to become one of the most successful writers in the world. In 1994 he achieved a feat unmatched by any other writer- by having simultaneously a number one TV series, book and movie with, respectively, ER (which he created), Disclosure and Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, on its release the highest-grossing film of all time. He also directed several movies, including The Great Railway Robbery with Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland. His high-concept thrillers were international bestsellers, and in total his books have sold more than 200 million copies worldwide. He died in 2008.