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About Kate Atkinson
English novelist, playwright and short story writer
Kate Atkinson is an English novelist, playwright and short story writer. She is known for fiction that ranges across historical, detective and family novels, and for blending postmodern and magical realist elements into her work. Her debut novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book Award in 1995. She later won the Costa Book Award for Novel for Life After Life in 2013 and A God in Ruins in 2015. Atkinson is also known for the Jackson Brodie detective novels, which were adapted for BBC One as Case Histories.
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Books by Kate Atkinson
Life After Life
2013
Case Histories
2004
Transcription
2018
One Good Turn
2006
Emotionally Weird
2000