Kate Atkinson

Kate Atkinson is one of the world's foremost novelists. Her most recent novel, Shrines of Gaiety , set in the aftermath of the First World War, is a Sunday Times bestseller. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum . Her three critically lauded and prize-winning novels set around the Second World War are Life After Life , an acclaimed 2022 BBC TV series, A God in Ruins (both winners of the Costa Novel Award) and Transcription . Her...See more

Kate Atkinson is one of the world's foremost novelists. Her most recent novel, Shrines of Gaiety , set in the aftermath of the First World War, is a Sunday Times bestseller. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum . Her three critically lauded and prize-winning novels set around the Second World War are Life After Life , an acclaimed 2022 BBC TV series, A God in Ruins (both winners of the Costa Novel Award) and Transcription . Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn , When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog , became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs. Jackson Brodie later returned in the novel Big Sky . Kate Atkinson was awarded an MBE in 2011 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. See less