‘The Ministry of Time’ author talks Graham Greene, James Bond and kissing Barbies

Kaliane Bradley is the author of “The Ministry of Time,” the best-selling debut novel that was chosen for Good Morning America Book Club. A British-Cambodian writer and editor based in London, Bradley has had short stories appear in Electric Literature and Catapult, and she won the 2022 Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize and the 2022 V. S. Pritchett Short Story Prize for her stories “Golden Years” and “Doggerland.” Below, she reveals the inspiration for her novel, recalls a collection she loved as a child...