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Kate Atkinson
- Black Swan
- 28 Décembre 2018
- 9780552776653
An unapologetic novel of ideas which is also wise, funny and paced like a thriller' Observer The magnificent new novel by bestselling award-winning Kate Atkinson 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.

'How vehemently most novelists will wish to produce a masterpiece as good' Telegraph
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Life after life

Kate Atkinson
- Black Swan
- 30 Janvier 2014
- 9780552776639
Merging family saga with a fluid sense of time and an extraordinarily vivid sense of history at its most human level. A dizzying and dazzling tour de force' Daily Mail WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD: the acclaimed number one bestselling novel.

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.
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Kate Atkinson
- Black Swan
- 2 Juin 1998
- 9780552996181
Whitbread Book of the Year, 1995. Ruby was born while her father was in the pub. Her mother, Bunty, had never wanted to marry him, and dreamt of being swept off to America by a romantic hero, but instead, was stuck in a flat with her three children. This is the family's story.
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CASE HISTORIES

Kate Atkinson
- Black Swan
- 1 Juin 2005
- 9780552772433
Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, has never felt at home in Cambridge, and has a failed marriage to prove it. Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, he attempts to unravel three case histories and begins to realise that everything is connected.
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STARTED EARLY, TOOK MY DOG - JACKSON BRODIE

Kate Atkinson
- Black Swan
- 17 Février 2011
- 9780552772464
Crime has given Atkinson the freedom to write an ambitious, panoramic work, full of excitement, colour and compassion' Sunday Times The fourth Jackson Brodie novel: literary crime from the prizewinning number-one bestselling author of Big Sky and Transcription.

A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a shocking impulse purchase. That one moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy's humdrum world to be turned upside down, the tedium of everyday life replaced by fear and danger at every turn.

Witnesses to Tracy's outrageous exchange in the Merrion Centre in Leeds are Tilly, an elderly actress teetering on the brink of her own disaster, and Jackson Brodie, who has returned to his home county in search of someone else's roots. All three characters learn that the past is never history and that no good deed goes unpunished.
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BIG SKY

Kate Atkinson
- Black Swan
- 1 Janvier 2020
- 9781784165246
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 Atkinson''s 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. It''s a picturesque setting, but there''s something darker lurking behind the scenes. Jackson''s 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 network-and 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.
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A GOD IN RUINS

Kate Atkinson
- Black Swan
- 31 Décembre 2015
- 9781784161156
A God in Ruins 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. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to face living in a future he never expected to have. This gripping, often deliriously funny yet emotionally devastating book looks at war - that great fall of Man from grace - and the effect it has, not only on those who live through it, but on the lives of the subsequent generations. It is also about the infinite magic of fiction. Those who loved the bestselling Life After Life will recognise Teddy as Ursula Todd s adored younger brother - but for those who have not read it, A God in Ruins stands fully on its own. Few will dispute that it proves once again that Kate Atkinson is one of the most exceptional novelists of our age
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One good turn

Kate Atkinson
- Black Swan
- 22 Juillet 2010
- 9780552772440
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.
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WHEN WILL THERE BE GOOD NEWS

Kate Atkinson
- Black Swan
- 1 Janvier 2009
- 9780552772457
Modern fictionIn rural Devon, Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime, and 30 years later, the man convicted is released from prison. Meanwhile, a GP goes missing but no one seems concerned except his babysitter, and the Detective Chief Inspector searches for another missing person, little knowing that her old friend is about to be killed. 'An exhilarating read. Her wry humour, sharp eye for quirks of human behaviour and subtle characterisation are a constant joy' Daily Mail
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NOT THE END OF THE WORLD

Kate Atkinson
- Black Swan
- 2 Juin 2003
- 9780552771054
Modern fiction/Short storiesThe first short story collection from the bestselling author of Emotionally Weird and Behind the Scenes of the Museum.
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Human croquet

Kate Atkinson
- Black Swan
- 2 Juin 1998
- 9780552996198
Once it had been the great forest of Lythe - a vast and impenetrable thicket of green.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 have dwindled too; now they live in 'Arden' at the end of Hawthorne Close and are hardly a family at all.

But Isobel Fairfax, who drops into pockets of time and out again, knows about the past. She 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 forest.
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One Good Turn

Kate Atkinson
- Black Swan
- 19 Juillet 2007
- 9780552155335
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