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Kate Atkinson

Biography

Kate Atkinson

Kate Atkinson won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year prize with her first novel, BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE MUSEUM. Her four bestselling novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie became the BBC television series "Case Histories," starring Jason Isaacs. The international sensation LIFE AFTER LIFE won the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature, was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize and won the Costa Novel Award, a prize Atkinson won again for her subsequent novel, A GOD IN RUINS.

Kate Atkinson

Books by Kate Atkinson

by Kate Atkinson - Fiction, Historical Fiction

On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife but dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born and embarks upon a life that will be unusual. As she grows, she also dies --- repeatedly, in a variety of ways --- while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war. Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny?

by Kate Atkinson - Fiction

With a trio of compelling "cold case" mysteries at its core; with its wonderfully sympathetic and complex private detective hero; with its host of instantly endearing, lovably flawed characters; and with its effortlessly beautiful and intelligent prose, Case Histories is Kate Atkinson's breakout book - the most accomplished, most compulsively readable novel yet from a writer of the first rank.