Kate Atkinson

La primera historia de Jackson Brodie, una novela policíaca de la galardonada autora de "Cielo abierto" y "La mecanógrafa", dos números uno en ventas. Cambridge es asfixiante durante un verano inusualmente caluroso. Para Jackson Brodie, exinspector de policia convertido en investigador privado, el mundo consiste en una hoja de contabilidad: perdidos a la izquierda, encontrados a la derecha, y los dos nunca parecen estar equilibrados. Rodeado por la muerte, la intriga y la desgracia, y con su propia vida atormentada por una tragedia familiar, Jackson intenta resolver tres casos distintos y empieza a darse cuenta de que, a pesar de que parezcan no tener relacion, todo esta conectado.

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, both at the discretion of his former partner Julia. Its a picturesque setting, but theres something darker lurking behind the scenes.Jacksons current job, gathering proof of an unfaithful husband for his suspicious wife, seems straightforward, but a chance encounter with a desperate man on a crumbling cliff leads him into a sinister networkand back into the path of someone from his past. Old secrets and new lies intersect in this breathtaking new novel, both sharply funny and achingly sad, by one of the most dazzling and surprising writers at work today.

This is the winner of the Costa Novel Award. What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. 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.

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 everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a suspect. With Case Histories, Kate Atkinson showed how brilliantly she could explore the crime genre and make it her own. In One Good Turn she takes her masterful plotting one step further. Like a set of Russian dolls each thread of the narrative reveals itself to be related to the last. Her Dickensian cast of characters are all looking for love or money and find it in surprising places. As ever with Atkinson what each one actually discovers is their true self. Unputdownable and triumphant, One Good Turn is a sharply intelligent read that is also percipient, funny, and totally satisfying.

Kate Atkinson's three latest bestsellers, Case Histories, One Good Turn and When WIll There Be Good News?, also featured the former private detective Jackson Brodie. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year for her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, and has been a critically acclaimed international bestselling author ever since. When Will There Be Good News? was no.1 on the Sunday Times bestsellers list for three consecutive weeks in paperback and is the bestselling paperback novel of 2009 Behind the Scenes at the Museum won the Whitbread Book of the Year.

The scene is set in Cambridge, with three case histories from the past: A young child who mysteriously disappeared from a tent in her back garden An unidentified man in a yellow jumper who marched into an office and slashed a young girl through the throat and a young woman found by the police sitting in her kitchen next to the body of her husband, an axe buried in his head. Jackson Brodie, a private investigator and former police detective, is quietly contemplating life as a divorced father when he is flung into the midst of these resurrected old crimes. Julia and Amelia Land, long having given up hope of uncovering the truth of what happened to their baby sister, Olivia, suddenly discover her lost toy mouse in the study of their recently-deceased father.

A major event: a new novel by the Whitbread winner, her first novel since Emotionally Weird, and probably her most commercial book yet. The scene is set in Cambridge, with three case histories from the past: A young child who mysteriously disappeared from a tent in her back garden; An unidentified man in a yellow jumper who marched into an office and slashed a young girl through the throat; and a young woman found by the police sitting in her kitchen next to the body of her husband, an axe buried in his head. Jackson Brodie, a private investigator and former police detective, is quietly contemplating life as a divorced father when he is flung into the midst of these resurrected old crimes. Julia and Amelia Land enlist Jackson's help to find out the truth about their younger sister. They embroil him in the complexities of their own jealousies, obsessions and lust. Another woman named Shirley needs Jackson to help find her lost niece. Jackson meets solicitor Theo Wyre whose daughter, Laura, was murdered in his office and is desperate for Jackson to help him lay Laura's ghost to rest. As he starts his investigations Jackson has the sinister feeling that someone is following him. In digging into the past Jackson seems to have unwittingly threatened his own future. This wonderfully crafted, intricately plotted novel is heartbreaking, uplifting, full of suspense and often very funny

Kate Atkinsons dazzling Life After Life, one of the top selling adult books of 2014, explored the possibility of infinite chances, as Ursula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again.In A God in Ruins, Atkinson turns her focus on Ursulas beloved younger brother Teddy would-be poet, RAF bomber pilot, husband and father as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to face living in a future he never expected to have.A God in Ruins is a masterful companion to Life After Life, and will prove once again that Kate Atkinson is one of the finest novelists of our age.

Literatura en ruso: ficción.

It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a suspect.With Case Histories, Kate Atkinson showed how brilliantly she could explore the crime genre and make it her own. In One Good Turn she takes her masterful plotting one step further. Like a set of Russian dolls each thread of the narrative reveals itself to be related to the last. Her Dickensian cast of characters are all looking for love or money and find it in surprising places. As ever with Atkinson what each one actually discovers is their true self.Unputdownable and triumphant, One Good Turn is a sharply intelligent read that is also percipient, funny, and totally satisfying.

Literatura en ruso: ficción.

Literatura en ruso: ficción.

Teddy a vingt ans lorsqu il s'enrôle en 1940 comme pilote de bombardier. Vite promu commandant d'Halifax, lui et son équipage vont connaître quatre années d'horreur et d'héroïsme où chaque mission risque d'être la dernière.Il va pourtant vivre jusqu'a plus de quatre-vingt-dix ans sans jamais complètement accepter l'idée d'avoir survécu et avec une obsession : ne plus faire de mal a personne. Le formidable pilote va donc épouser celle qui l'attendait, devenir père puis grand-père tout en se frayant un chemin au milieu des périls et des progrès du xxe siècle.Mélangeant les genres avec maestria : roman de guerre et roman sociétal, passant avec virtuosité du futur au passé, des larmes aux rires, Kate Atkinson signe un roman éblouissant où l'ambition littéraire n'altère jamais l'empathie de l'auteur pour ses inoubliables personnages.

Parce qu'il a été témoin d'un violent accrochage entre deux automobilistes, Jackson Brodie, dont nous avons fait connaissance dans " La Souris Bleue ", va se trouver propulsé dans une série d'aventures incroyables. " Les choses s'arrangent. " est un thriller, une comédie noire et une satire de la vie contemporaine britannique. Kate Atkinson y brocarde, entre autres, le théâtre d'avant-garde, une certaine littérature populaire, les promoteurs immobiliers, les nouveaux riches, etc. , avec l'humour corrosif qu'on lui connaît.

Think of it as an adventure, Perry had said right at the beginning of all this.And it had seemed like one. A bit of a lark, she had thought. A Girls' Own adventure.' 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 British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever. Ten years later, now a producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence. Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit and empathy. It is a triumphant work of fiction from one of this country's most exceptional writers.