Kate Atkinson





Kate Atkinson

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January 01, 1951 in York, The United Kingdom

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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 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


Average rating: 3.75 · 45,989 ratings · 6,819 reviews · 27 distinct works
Case Histories (Jackson Bro...
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 16,601 ratings — published 2004 — 44 editions
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When Will There Be Good New...
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 7,650 ratings — published 2008 — 29 editions
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One Good Turn (Jackson Brod...
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 6,289 ratings — published 2006 — 34 editions
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Behind the Scenes at the Mu...
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 5,773 ratings — published 1996 — 30 editions
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Started Early, Took My Dog ...
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 5,031 ratings — published 2010 — 27 editions
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Human Croquet
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 1,779 ratings — published 1997 — 22 editions
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Emotionally Weird: A Novel
3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 1,588 ratings — published 2000 — 16 editions
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Not the End of the World
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 1,106 ratings — published 2002 — 14 editions
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Behind The Scenes at the Mu...
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1995
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3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2000
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More books by Kate Atkinson…
Case Histories One Good Turn When Will There Be Good News? Started Early, Took My Dog
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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

“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

“The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.”
Kate Atkinson, Human Croquet

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