‘Atkinson has a plotter’s mind: intricate, clever, satisfying…Shrines of Gaiety is engrossing and fun, powered by subtle skills.’ – The Sunday Times Read More

2022年9月29日 · Welcome to the official website of Kate Atkinson MBE, writer of novels, plays and short stories. She is best known for creating the Jackson Brodie series of detective novels, which has been adapted into the BBC One series Case Histories.

Jackson Brodie has appeared in five of Kate Atkinson's novels. Each can be read in isolation, but are best enjoyed in order of publication: Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News?, Started Early, Took My Dog, and Big Sky.

Kate Atkinson is one of the world's foremost novelists. She won the Costa Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Kate Atkinson was awarded an MBE in 2011, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

2022年9月29日 · ‘Atkinson has a plotter’s mind: intricate, clever, satisfying…Shrines of Gaiety is engrossing and fun, powered by subtle skills.’ – The Sunday Times

A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson 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. Read A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson.

In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. Read the latest novel from Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety.

Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village in North Yorkshire, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son Nathan and ageing Labrador Dido. Read Big Sky, the fifth novel featuring Jackson Brodie, by Kate Atkinson.

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.

Isobel Fairfax is sixteen and waiting for the return of her mother - the thin, dangerous Eliza with her scent of nicotine, Arpège and sex, whose disappearance is part of the mystery that still remains at the heart of the great forest of Lythe. Read Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson.