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Authors: Kate Atkinson
From Charlene and Trudi, obsessively making lists while bombs explode softly in the streets outside, to gormless Eddie, maniacal cataloguer of fish, and Meredith Zane who may just have discovered the secret to eternal life, each of these stories shows that when the worlds of material existence and imagination collide, anything is possible.
‘I can think of few writers who can make the ordinary collide with the extraordinary to such beguiling effect . . . left me so fizzing with admiration’
Observer
‘Exceptional . . . sharp, witty and completely compelling’
Daily Mail
‘An exceptionally funny, quirky and bold writer’
Independent on Sunday
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CASE HISTORIES
Kate Atkinson
‘Not just the best novel I read this year but the best mystery of the decade’
Stephen King
Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. 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 seem to balance.
Jackson has never felt at home in Cambridge, and has a failed marriage to prove it. Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life haunted by a family tragedy, he attempts to unravel three disparate case histories and begins to realize that in spite of apparent diversity, everything is connected . . .
‘An astonishingly complex and moving literary detective story . . . the sort of novel you have to start re-reading the minute you’ve finished it’
Guardian
‘Triumphant . . . her best book yet . . . a tragi-comedy for our times’
Sunday Telegraph
‘Part complex family drama, part mystery, it winds up having more depth and vividness than ordinary thrillers and more thrills than ordinary fiction . . . a wonderfully tricky book’
New York Times
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ONE GOOD TURN
Kate Atkinson
‘Very funny . . . that rarest of things – a good literary novel and a cracking holiday read’
Observer
It is summer, it is the Edinburgh festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident – a near-homicidal attack which changes the lives of everyone involved: the wife of an unscrupulous property developer, a crime writer, a washed-up comedian. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander – until he becomes a murder suspect.
Stephen King called
Case Histories
‘the best mystery of the decade’:
One Good Turn
sees the return of its irresistible hero Jackson Brodie. As the body count mounts, each character’s story contains a kernel of the next, like a set of nesting Russian dolls. Everyone in the teeming Dickensian cast is looking for love or money or redemption or escape: but what each actually discovers is their own true self.
Case Histories
‘the best mystery of the decade’:
One Good Turn
sees the return of its irresistible hero Jackson Brodie. As the body count mounts, each character’s story contains a kernel of the next, like a set of nesting Russian dolls. Everyone in the teeming Dickensian cast is looking for love or money or redemption or escape: but what each actually discovers is their own true self.
‘The most fun I’ve had with a novel this year’
Ian Rankin,
Guardian
(Books of the Year)
Guardian
(Books of the Year)
‘Delivers everything a good book should have. It’s a fantastic detective story and a wonderful piece of writing . . . has taken the crime genre to another level’
Daily Express
‘Thrillingly addictive . . . quite unique in her ability to fuse emotional drama and thriller’
The Times
‘A detective novel packed with more wit, insight and subtlety than an entire shelf-full of literary fiction’
Marie Claire
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WHEN WILL THERE
BE GOOD NEWS?
Kate Atkinson
‘Genius . . . insightful, often funny, life-affirming’
Sunday Telegraph
In a quiet corner of rural Devon, a six-year-old girl witnesses an appalling crime. Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is released from prison.
In Edinburgh, sixteen-year-old Reggie, wise beyond her years, works as a nanny for a G.P. But her employer has disappeared with her baby, and Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried. Across town, Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person, unaware that hurtling towards her is a former acquaintance – Jackson Brodie – himself on a journey that is about to be fatally interrupted.
‘Funny, bracingly intelligent . . . Kate Atkinson is that rarest of beasts, a genuinely surprising novelist’
Guardian
‘An exhilarating read. Her wry humour, sharp eye and subtle characterisation are a constant joy’
Daily Mail
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