Kate Atkinson

Bienvenidos a Rook Hall.El escenario está listo. Los actores preparados. Y al final de la noche se producirá una revelación: el nombre el asesino.El exinspector de policía Jackson Brodie está pasando un caso grave de crisis de la mediana edad cuando le piden que vaya a un pueblecito de lo mas tranquilo en Yorkshire para ocuparse del caso, aparentemente rutinario, de un cuadro robado.Pero un robo lleva a otro y se produce la desaparicion de una valiosa obra de Turner de Burton Makepeace, el hogar de lady Milton y su familia.El lugar, que en el pasado fue una grandiosa casa de campo, se ha trasformado parcialmente en un hotel, que organiza encuentros de fin de semana para aficionados a las novelas de misterio.En el hotel, donde se alojan al mismo tiempo un pastor eclesiastico, un exoficial del ejercito, aristocratas completamente arruinados y viejos amigos, surgira un misterio tremendamente inteligente, que le rinde homenaje a los grandes maestros del genero, de Agatha Christie a Dorothy Sayers.Brillante y original, con las habituales señas de identidad de Atkinson, su ingenio, sus juegos de palabras y su agil narrativa, Muerte en Rook Hall puede que sea el caso mas descabellado y memorable de Jackson Brodie hasta el momento.

It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a suspect.With Case Histories, Kate Atkinson showed how brilliantly she could explore the crime genre and make it her own. In One Good Turn she takes her masterful plotting one step further. Like a set of Russian dolls each thread of the narrative reveals itself to be related to the last. Her Dickensian cast of characters are all looking for love or money and find it in surprising places. As ever with Atkinson what each one actually discovers is their true self.Unputdownable and triumphant, One Good Turn is a sharply intelligent read that is also percipient, funny, and totally satisfying.

Literatura en ruso: ficción.

Literatura en ruso: ficción.

This is the winner of the Costa Novel Award. What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. 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 infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in life's bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.

A play about love, death, identity and evolution, from the bestselling and highly acclaimed novelist.Elizabeth, forty-something, childless, recently separated, just wants to be alone. Shes moved into a converted Victorian mansion, alive with history, character, woodworm and rot. But worse than that shes besieged by invaders of the human kind. Her best friend, her sister, their mother, the builder and a photographer are all determined to make their mark. And a former inhabitant of the house, disturbed from her resting place by Elizabeths arrival, revisits her own long-forgotten past.Kate Atkinsons play Abandonment was first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in 2000.

Kate Atkinson enfrenta a Jackson Brodie, ex militar, ex policía y ex detective privado, a un caso en el que será algo más que observador. Y es que, en esta ocasión, Jackson se verá convertido nada me

It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a suspect. With Case Histories, Kate Atkinson showed how brilliantly she could explore the crime genre and make it her own. In One Good Turn she takes her masterful plotting one step further. Like a set of Russian dolls each thread of the narrative reveals itself to be related to the last. Her Dickensian cast of characters are all looking for love or money and find it in surprising places. As ever with Atkinson what each one actually discovers is their true self. Unputdownable and triumphant, One Good Turn is a sharply intelligent read that is also percipient, funny, and totally satisfying.

Parce qu'il a été témoin d'un violent accrochage entre deux automobilistes, Jackson Brodie, dont nous avons fait connaissance dans " La Souris Bleue ", va se trouver propulsé dans une série d'aventures incroyables. " Les choses s'arrangent. " est un thriller, une comedie noire et une satire de la vie contemporaine britannique. Kate Atkinson y brocarde, entre autres, le theatre d'avant-garde, une certaine litterature populaire, les promoteurs immobiliers, les nouveaux riches, etc. , avec l'humour corrosif qu'on lui connait.

Kate Atkinsons dazzling Life After Life, one of the top selling adult books of 2014, explored the possibility of infinite chances, as Ursula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again.In A God in Ruins, Atkinson turns her focus on Ursulas beloved younger brother Teddy would-be poet, RAF bomber pilot, husband and father as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to face living in a future he never expected to have.A God in Ruins is a masterful companion to Life After Life, and will prove once again that Kate Atkinson is one of the finest novelists of our age.

This title was shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award. A God in Ruins relates 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 of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to face living in a future he never expected to have. This gripping, often deliriously funny yet emotionally devastating book looks at war - that great fall of Man from grace - and the effect it has, not only on those who live through it, but on the lives of the subsequent generations. It is also about the infinite magic of fiction. Those who loved the bestselling Life After Life will recognise Teddy as Ursula Todd's adored younger brother - but for those who have not read it, A God in Ruins stands fully on its own. Few will dispute that it proves once again that Kate Atkinson is one of the most exceptional novelists of our age.

In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime. Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is released from prison. In Edinburgh, sixteen-year-old Reggie works as a nanny for a G.P. But Dr. Hunter has gone missing 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 an old friend - Jackson Brodie - himself on a journey that becomes fatally interrupted.

Kate Atkinson's three latest bestsellers, Case Histories, One Good Turn and When WIll There Be Good News?, also featured the former private detective Jackson Brodie. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year for her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, and has been a critically acclaimed international bestselling author ever since. When Will There Be Good News? was no.1 on the Sunday Times bestsellers list for three consecutive weeks in paperback and is the bestselling paperback novel of 2009 Behind the Scenes at the Museum won the Whitbread Book of the Year.

'An unapologetic novel of ideas which is also wise, funny and paced like a thriller' Observer The magnificent new novel by bestselling award-winning Kate Atkinson In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever. Ten years later, now a producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence. Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit and empathy. It is a triumphant work of fiction from one of this country's most exceptional writers. 'How vehemently most novelists will wish to produce a masterpiece as good' Telegraph

Bajo una ola de calor, entre turistas despistados y estudiantes extranjeros, el detecive Jackson Brodie se ocupa de sus casos en un Cambridge al margen de la imponente sombra de los colleges. Con la trama trepidante de un thriller y el calado de una novela psicológica, plantea un acercamiento caleidoscópico y plural al clásico relato detectivesco, que gana así en hondura sin perder ritmo ni interés.

Literatura en ruso: ficción.

t 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. 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 story contains a kernel of the next, like a set of nesting Russian dolls. They are all looking for love or money or redemption or escape: but what each actually discovers is their own true self.