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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.

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.

En una remota isla de Escocia, Ellie y su madre se refugian en la destartalada casa de sus ancestros y se dedican a contarse sus respectivas historias. El resultado es una novela desternillante que explora los limites entre la realidad y la fantasía.

Los rocambolescos entretelones de una inefable familia británica poblada con una galería de personajes inolvidables. Una de las novelas más divertidas, mordaces y desternillantes de los últimos tiempos, en 1995 fue galardonada con el prestigioso premio Whitbread al Mejor Libro del Año.

Varios pintorescos personajes son unidos por el azar, y de esta inverosímil confluencia surge una historia marcada por el desenfreno y un cómico surrealismo. Effe, estudiante de la Universidad de Edimburgo, cuenta sus ultimas peripecias a su madre, recluida en una isla de Escocia. Tras recoger ella y su novio Terri a un perro atropellado, lo trasladan en coche a un veterinario. El conductor es casualmente un investigador privado, que los obliga a recorrer toda la ciudad en busca de la esposa de un cliente. En el camino se une a ellos un profesor chiflado, perdido en su propio mundo. El caos y el desconcierto aumentan por momentos.

La divertida historia de una familia del norte de Inglaterra marcada por la misteriosa ausencia de la madre. Narrada como un sutil juego de espejos, la autora nos deleita una vez más con su corrosivo sentido del humor y con un estilo capaz de combinar ternura, poesia y crueldad con una sensibilidad exquisita.

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: THE RETURN OF JACKSON BRODIE, 'LIKE ALL GOOD DETECTIVES, A HERO FOR MEN AND WOMEN ALIKE' (The Times)'Big Sky is laced with Atkinsons sharp, dry humour, and one of the joys of the Brodie novels has always been that they are so funny' (Observer)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 literary crime novel, both sharply funny and achingly sad, by one of the most dazzling and surprising writers at work today.

Once it had been the great forest of Lythe - a vast and impenetrable thicket of green with a mystery in the very heart of the trees. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor, visited once by the great Gloriana herself. But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed, replaced by Streets of Trees. The Fairfaxes had dwindled too; now they lived in 'Arden' at the end of Hawthorne Close and were hardly a family at all. There was Vinny (the Aunt from Hell) - with her cats and her crab-apple face. And Gordon, who had forgotten them for seven years and, when he remembered, came back with fat Debbie, who shared her one brain cell with a poodle. And then there were Charles and Isobel, the children. Charles, the acne-scarred Lost Boy, passed his life awaiting visits from aliens and the return of his mother. But it is Isobel to whom the story belongs - Isobel, born on the Streets of Trees, who drops into pockets of time and out again. Isobel is sixteen and she too is waiting for the return of her mother - the thin, dangerous Eliza with her scent of nicotine, Arpege and sex, whose disappearance is part of the mystery that still remains at the heart of the forest.

Transcription is a bravura novel of extraordinary power and substance. Juliet Armstrong is recruited as a young woman by an obscure wartime department of the Secret Service. In the aftermath of war she joins the BBC, where her life begins to unravel, and she finally has to come to terms with the consequences of idealism.

The highly anticipated return of Jackson Brodie, like all good detectives, a hero for men and women alike (The Times)'Big Sky is laced with Atkinsons sharp, dry humour, and one of the joys of the Brodie novels has always been that they are so funny' (Observer)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.

A Cambridge, el detectiu privat i expolicia Jackson Brodie veu passar la vida com a pare divorciat investigant afers de banyes o de gats extraviats, quan es arrossegat al passat boirós de tres crims antics: una nena que va desapareixer d’una tenda al jardi de casa seva; un desconegut que va entrar en una oficina i va degollar-hi una noia; i una dona que van trobar asseguda a la cuina, a tocar del cos del seu marit, que llua una destral clavada al cap. A mesura que investiga aquests casos inconnexos, pero, i sobtadament estalonat per una tragedia a la seva propia familia, en Jackson s’adona que tot esta relacionat...