Kate Atkinson

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1996
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Jackson Brodie

1 - Case Histories (Nov-2004)
2 - One Good Turn (Oct-2006)
3 - When Will There Be Good News? (Oct-2008)
4 - Started Early, Took My Dog (Apr-2011)
5 - Big Sky (Jun-2019)
6 - Death at the Sign of the Rook (Sep-2024)

Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • Behind the Scenes at the Museum

    The acclaimed author’s “startlingly original . . . poignant and beautifully wrought portrait” of a girl’s growing awareness of her dysfunctional family (The Seattle Times).Winner of the Whitbread Book of the YearRuby Lennox beg...

  • Human Croquet

    Part fairy tale, part mystery, part coming-of-age novel, this is the story of Isobel Fairfax, a girl growing up in Lythe, a typical 1960s British suburb. But Lythe was once the heart of an Elizabethan feudal estate and home to a young English tutor n...

  • Emotionally Weird

    Emotionally Weird is a thoroughly original and hilarious novel about mothers, daughters, and love, by the author of Behind the Scenes at the MuseumOn a weather-beaten island off the coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother, Nora, take refuge in the la...

  • Not the End of the World

    Arthur is a precocious eight-year-old boy whose mother is a B-list celebrity more concerned with the state of her bank account than with her son's development. Then an enigmatic young nanny named Missy introduces him to a world he never knew existed....

  • Case Histories

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    With a trio of compelling "cold case" mysteries at its core, with its wonderfully sympathet and complex private detective hero, and with its effortlessly beautiful and intelligei prose, Case Histories is Kate Atkinson's breakout book -- the most acco...

  • One Good Turn

    Jackson Brodie - 2

    Case Histories, once again featuring ex-cop turned private investigator Jackson Brodie. It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident -- an incident which changes the lives of everyo...

  • When Will There Be Good News?

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    On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever... On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson Brodie finds himself on a train that is both crowded an...

  • Started Early, Took My Dog

    Jackson Brodie - 4

    It's a day like any other for Tracy Waterhouse, running errands at the local shopping center, until she makes a purchase she hadn't bargained for. One moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy's humdrum world to be turned upside down, the tedium of...

  • Life After Life

    What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Tod...



  • A God in Ruins

    "He had been reconciled to death during the war and then suddenly the war was over and there was a next day and a next day. Part of him never adjusted to having a future." Kate Atkinson's dazzling LIFE AFTER LIFE explored the possibility of infin...

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    A dramatic story of WWII espionage, betrayal, and loyalty 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 Briti...

  • Big Sky

    Jackson Brodie - 5

    Iconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie returns in a triumphant new novel about secrets, sex, and lies Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at ...

  • Festive Spirits

  • Shrines of Gaiety

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to a restless London in the wake of the Great War -- a city bursting with money, glamour, and corruption -- in this spellbinding tale of seduction and betrayal.A ...

  • Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

    A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, with everything that readers love about her novels -- the inventiveness, the verbal felicity...

  • Death at the Sign of the Rook

    Jackson Brodie - 6

    THE INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER (SUNDAY TIMES, UK) • The highly anticipated return of "irresistible" (New York Times) private eye Jackson Brodie in the newest installment of the bestselling series hailed as "unputdownable" by Time...

Award-Winning Books by Kate Atkinson

A God in Ruins
2015 Costa Book Award -- Novel
Life After Life
2013 Costa Book Award -- Novel
2013 Goodreads Choice Award -- Historical Fiction
2014 Indies Choice Book Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kate Atkinson has published 16 books.

Kate Atkinson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Death at the Sign of the Rook, was published in September 2024.

The first book by Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, was published in January 1996.

Yes. Kate Atkinson has 1 series.
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