Kate Atkinson

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.

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.

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.

Literatura en ruso: ficción.