Kate Atkinson

Kate Atkinson se revela una vez más como la espléndida heredera de una tradición que tiene en sus filas a mujeres de la talla de Patricia Highsmith y P.D. JamesTracy Waterhouse, una mujer de mediana edad con unos kilos de mas y muchas ilusiones de menos, pasea distraida por un centro comercial de la ciudad de Leeds, cuando ve a una niña corriendo, tirada de la mano de una prostituta conocida en el barrio. De repente, Tracy sabe que comprara algo mas que galletas... Al poco rato, la niña esta en su coche y desde entonces la vida sera para ella un ir y venir de emociones desconocidas.Tracy confia en que no hubo testigos de ese extraño negocio, pero Jackson Brodie entra de repente en escena: sus dotes de gran investigador y de hombre imperfecto van a convertir una trama policial en una historia donde las cuestiones morales seran lo que realmente importa.

Hay momentos imposibles de olvidar: Joanna aún recuerda la tarde de verano en que un hombre se acercó a su madre y a sus hermanos y acabó con la vida de su familia. Ella, una niña de seis años, consiguio huir y ahora es una mujer que intenta llevar una vida apacible con su marido y su hijo. Hasta que un buen dia el pasado vuelve para pasar factura: Joanna y el niño desaparecen sin dejar rastro y quien se ve involucrado en la investigacion de este extraño caso es Jackson Brodie, un hombre adorablemente imperfecto que trabaja como detective y siempre acaba confundiendo profesion y vida privada.

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.

La segunda historia de Jackson Brodie (tras "Expedientes"), una novela policíaca de la galardonada autora de Cielo abierto y La mecanógrafa, dos números uno en ventas. Es verano, en el Festival de Edimburgo. La gente que hace cola para un espectaculo a la hora de la comida es testigo de un incidente violento en la carretera: un ataque casi homicida que cambia la vida de todos los alli presentes. Jackson Brodie, exmilitar, expolicia y exdetective privado, es tambien uno de los inocentes espectadores, hasta que se convierte en sospechoso de asesinato. A medida que aumenta el numero de muertos, el relato de cada uno de los miembros del numeroso elenco dickensiano incluye un fragmento del siguiente, como un conjunto de muñecas rusas anidadas. Todos buscan amor, dinero, redencion o una via de escape, pero lo que en realidad descubren es su verdadero ser.

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.

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.

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.

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.

THE MAGNIFICENT NEW NOVEL BY BESTSELLING AWARD-WINNING KATE ATKINSON `Think of it as an adventure, Perry had said right at the beginning of all this.And it had seemed like one. A bit of a lark, she had thought. A Girl's Own adventure.' 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.

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

THE 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER August 2024 DISCOVER THE NEW JACKSON BRODIE NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SHRINES OF GAIETY How delicious to have Jackson Brodie back this time in a story that starts off in Agatha Christie s world but soon becomes a landscape that could only have been crafted from the pen of the incomparable Kate Atkinson Ian Rankin Christie would be proud I defy you not to snort with laughter as the novel progresses to its farcical denouement Atkinson is brilliant Observer SPECIAL FIRST EDITION PRINT RUN With an exclusive design underneath the dust jacket and Author Q&A available while stocks last Welcome to Rook Hall The stage is set The players are ready By night s end a murderer will be revealed Ex detective Jackson Brodie is staving off a bad case of midlife malaise when he is called to a sleepy Yorkshire town and the seemingly tedious matter of a stolen painting But one theft leads to another including the disappearance of a valuable Turner from Burton Makepeace home to Lady Milton and her family Once a magnificent country house Burton Makepeace has now partially been converted into a hotel hosting Murder Mystery weekends As paying guests a vicar an ex army officer impecunious aristocrats and old friends

A title that 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. It 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 generations to come.

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 Tracys humdrum world to be turned upside down, the tedium of everyday life replaced by fear and danger at every turn.

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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.