Kate Atkinson

La primera historia de Jackson Brodie, una novela policíaca de la galardonada autora de "Cielo abierto" y "La mecanógrafa", dos números uno en ventas. Cambridge es asfixiante durante un verano inusualmente caluroso. Para Jackson Brodie, exinspector de policia convertido en investigador privado, el mundo consiste en una hoja de contabilidad: perdidos a la izquierda, encontrados a la derecha, y los dos nunca parecen estar equilibrados. Rodeado por la muerte, la intriga y la desgracia, y con su propia vida atormentada por una tragedia familiar, Jackson intenta resolver tres casos distintos y empieza a darse cuenta de que, a pesar de que parezcan no tener relacion, todo esta conectado.

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.

Teddy a vingt ans lorsqu il s''enrôle en 1940 comme pilote de bombardier. Vite promu commandant d''Halifax, lui et son équipage vont connaître quatre années d''horreur et d''héroïsme où chaque missio

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.

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 Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life, the bestselling adult book this year to date in the UK, 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 Ursula's 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.

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.

Literatura en ruso: ficción.

Literatura en ruso: ficción.

Literatura en ruso: ficción.

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.

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.

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