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Kate AtkinsonCase Histories Little, Brown & Company 2008 0316033480 / 9780316033480 Reprint Edition New Availability: Ships in 10-14 Days - Subject to stock availability
A triumphant new novel from award-winner Kate Atkinson: a breathtaking story of families divided, love lost and found, and the mysteries of fate.
Case One: Olivia Land, youngest and most beloved of the Land girls, goes missing in the night and is never seen again. Thirty years later, two of her surviving sisters unearth a shocking clue to Olivia's disappearance among the clutter of their childhood home. . .
Case Two: Theo delights in his daughter Laura's wit, effortless beauty, and selfless love. But her first day as an associate in his law firm is also the day when Theo's world turns upside down. . . Case Three: Michelle looks around one day and finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making. A very needy baby and a very demanding husband make her every waking moment a reminder that somewhere, somehow, she'd made a grave mistake and would spend the rest of her life paying for it--until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape.
As Private Detective Jackson Brodie investigates all three cases, startling connections and discoveries emerge. Inextricably caught up in his clients grief, joy, and desire, Jackson finds their unshakable need for resolution very much like his own. Kate Atkinson's celebrated talent makes for a novel that positively sparkles with surprise, comedy, tragedy, and constant, page-turning delight. 9780316033480 0.00 Price:
12.93 AUD
Kate AtkinsonStarted Early, Took My Dog Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books 06 October 2011 0316066745 / 9780316066747 Paperback NEW Ships in 10-14 Day After Release date Tracy Waterhouse leads a quiet, ordered life as a retired police detective-a life that takes a surprising turn when she encounters Kelly Cross, a habitual offender, dragging a young child through town. Both appear miserable and better off without each other-or so decides Tracy, in a snap decision that surprises herself as much as Kelly. Suddenly burdened with a small child, Tracy soon learns her parental inexperience is actually the least of her problems, as much larger ones loom for her and her young charge. Meanwhile, Jackson Brodie, the beloved detective of novels such as Case Histories, is embarking on a different sort of rescue-that of an abused dog. Dog in tow, Jackson is about to learn, along with Tracy, that no good deed goes unpunished. 9780316066747 0.00 Price:
24.95 AUD
Denise Mina & Kate AtkinsonThe End of the Wasp Season Reagan Arthur Books 26/09/2011 0316069337 / 9780316069335 Hardcover New Ships in 10-14 Day After Release date Author One-on-One: Denise Mina and Kate Atkinson In this Amazon exclusive, author Denise Mina is interviewed by fellow author Kate Atkinson (Started Early, Took My Dog). Kate Atkinson: Do you have a lot of books planned ahead? Does it worry you that you?ll die before you write them all. (My own paranoia is on display here, obviously.) Denise Mina: My books tend to unfold as I write them and start with a very nebulous idea. I know some writers have notepads full of ideas they?re waiting to get around to. I used to keep a note pad and found it recently and it was full of dreamlike nonsense. One memorable entry--?King and Queen of Moon'--what the hell is that? For me the best books to write, if not to read, are small ideas that snowball out of nothing much at all. I still have two Paddy Meehan books to write but I?m glad they?re not done now. If I?d written them before the Murdoch scandal I?d have missed out so much juicy stuff. I?ve never had much of a horror of death. I?m so busy now that whenever I think about dying I comfort myself with the knowledge that at least I?ll get to sit down for half an hour. Atkinson: Your characters are very well-rounded, not ciphers as in some novels (crime and otherwise). Do you become attached to them or are you aware you?re using them as fictional devices? Mina: I get very attached to them. When Facebook first started and I was looking up/stalking old friends, I actually typed in half of Maureen O?Donnell?s name before I remembered that she wasn?t real. I usually base my heroes on admirable aspects of people I know, so maybe that makes them seem more real to me. They never feel like ciphers to me, especially not by the time I?ve finished a book. Then they usually feel like someone I like but I?ve been spending far too much time with. Atkinson: You haven?t always been a writer and could, I suspect, have succeeded in many different fields. If you could have completely free rein what path would you have chosen? Mina: Nah, I was unsuccessful at everything else. I?m not being modest, I really was because I have a bit of a problem with authority and was prone to getting sacked for being mouthy. Maybe it served me well: I have a friend who wants to write but she has the misfortune of being good at all her until-I?m-a-writer jobs, so she keeps getting promoted. With completely free rein and writing not being an option: I would have a talent for art and become a sculptor. But then I?d probably need a talent for self-promotion as well. Atkinson: Do you wish you could write more? Or less? Mina: Much, much more and all different stuff. At the moment I write for magazines and newspapers, I write plays and poems and comics and novels and short stories. I find all these different outlets invigorating and inspirational. For me there?s no greater inspiration than an impending deadline. The hardest thing about writing for me is the first draft, making the clay. Shaping it is the re-writes and that?s just fun, but forgiving myself the roughness of a first draft is very hard, and a deadline makes me do it. Atkinson: Does the question of genre get boring? Yes, this in itself is a boring question! Mina: I know what you mean. I think of 'genre' as a marketing tool, a way of giving the reader a clue as to what they?re buying; it shouldn?t be taken too seriously because crime fiction especially is a very broad church. Crime, deviant identities, social divisions: those are what I?m interested in anyway. Even if I was marketed as a straight literary writer I?d still be writing the same books. Because crime is seen as less serious, though, it does mean that you can tackle really complex ideas within a strong narrative arc, which makes it work on two levels for different types of readers. I love that! Atkinson: Where would your ideal place to write be? Mina: Since I had kids I can write anywhere anytime. Ideally, either on a long haul flight or in a hotel room up in the early morning with jet lag. Also departure lounges. Headphones on, coffee nearby, departures board above my head and a laptop open on the table. Bliss. Atkinson: Which do you prefer--beginnings or endings? Mina: Always beginnings: the joy of that first chapter, the inciting incident from which all the subsequent action flows. It?s like building a bomb out of words. Endings: it?s very hard to find an upbeat ending in a crime story and yet for me the best crime novels have a sudden twist of tone at the end, that unexpected aftertaste that always reminds me of the final chocolate with the coffee after a long, delicious meal. Hard to do. I prefer blowing things up. 9780316069335 0.00 Price:
39.95 AUD
