Kate Atkinson

Kate Atkinson is one of the world’s foremost novelists. She won the Costa Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her three critically lauded and prizewinning novels set around World War II are Life After Life, A God in Ruins (both winners of the Costa Novel Award), and Transcription. She was appointed MBE for services to literature in 2011.

Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs.

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Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, Book 6)

Kate Atkinson

Jackson Brodie returns! From the Number One bestselling author, a brilliantly clever take on the classic country house murder mystery; a homage to writers such as Agatha Christie

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Normal Rules Don’t Apply

Kate Atkinson

The first story collection from Kate Atkinson in twenty years, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a dazzling array of eleven interconnected tales from the bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety…

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Shrines of Gaiety

Kate Atkinson

From the inimitable bestselling author, Kate Atkinson, a mesmerising novel set in the glittering world of Soho in the 1920s - a place of gangsters and showgirls, Bright Young Things…

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Big Sky (Jackson Brodie, Book 5)

Kate Atkinson

Iconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the discretion of his…

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Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie Book 4)

Kate Atkinson

A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a shocking impulse purchase. That one moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy’s humdrum world…

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When Will There be Good News? (Jackson Brodie Book 3)

Kate Atkinson

In Edinburgh, sixteen-year-old Reggie, works as a nanny for a GP. But her employer has disappeared with her baby, and Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried…

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One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie Book 2)

Kate Atkinson

Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a murder suspect. As the body count mounts, each member of the teeming Dickensian cast’s…

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Case Histories (Jackson Brodie Book 1)

Kate Atkinson

To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet - lost on the left, found on the right - and the two never…

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Transcription

Kate Atkinson

‘An unapologetic novel of ideas which is also wise, funny and paced like a thriller’ ObserverThe magnificent new novel by bestselling award-winning Kate AtkinsonIn 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is…

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Human Croquet

Kate Atkinson

Once it had been the great forest of Lythe. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor. But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed…

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A God in Ruins

Kate Atkinson

This title deals with the life of Teddy Todd - would-be poet, heroic World War II bomber pilot, husband, father, and grandfather - as he navigates the perils and progress…

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Emotionally Weird

Kate Atkinson

Nora, at first, recounts nothing that Effie really wants to hear, like who her father was - variously Jimmy, Jack, or Ernie. Effie tells of her life at college in…

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Not the End of the World

Kate Atkinson

Features a collection of short stories. This book explores the world we think we know whilst offering a vision of another world which lurks just beneath the surface of our…

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Life After Life (Todd Family, Book 1)

Kate Atkinson

During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an…

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Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Kate Atkinson

Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress and a…

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