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Kate Atkinson


Born
in York, England, The United Kingdom
December 20, 1951

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers


Kate Atkinson was born in York and now lives in Edinburgh. Her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and she has been a critically acclaimed international bestselling author ever since.

She is the author of a collection of short stories, Not the End of the World, and of the critically acclaimed novels Human Croquet, Emotionally Weird, Case Histories, and One Good Turn.

Case Histories introduced her readers to Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, and won the Saltire Book of the Year Award and the Prix Westminster.

When Will There Be Good News? was voted Richard & Judy Book Best Read of the Year. After Case Histories and One Good Turn, it was her third novel to fea ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 748,373 ratings · 76,954 reviews · 61 distinct works • Similar authors
Life After Life (Todd Famil...
3.78 avg rating — 231,504 ratings — published 2013 — 130 editions
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Case Histories (Jackson Bro...
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A God in Ruins (Todd Family...
3.95 avg rating — 57,744 ratings — published 2015 — 84 editions
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3.49 avg rating — 57,071 ratings — published 2018 — 62 editions
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When Will There Be Good News?
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Started Early, Took My Dog ...
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One Good Turn (Jackson Brod...
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Behind the Scenes at the Mu...
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Shrines of Gaiety
3.85 avg rating — 37,024 ratings — published 2022 — 31 editions
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Big Sky (Jackson Brodie, #5)
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Case Histories One Good Turn When Will There Be Good News? Started Early, Took My Dog Big Sky Death at the Sign of the Rook
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“She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.”
― Kate Atkinson, Case Histories
tags: books, life
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“Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
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“Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than 5 million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning. So that when you look at them and think, "what a lazy, good-for-nothing animal," they are, in fact, working very, very hard.”
― Kate Atkinson
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Polls

March's genre is literary/general fiction. This poll will be open until Monday, February 12.

Behind the Scenes at the Museum Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson Kate Atkinson
 
  2 votes, 33.3%

White Teeth White Teeth by Zadie Smith Zadie Smith
 
  1 vote, 16.7%

One Hundred Years of Solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Gabriel García Márquez
 
  1 vote, 16.7%

 
  1 vote, 16.7%

 
  1 vote, 16.7%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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