by vjbooks | Jan 19, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Kate Atkinson was born in York in 1951 and studied English Literature at Dundee University. After graduating in 1974, she researched a postgraduate doctorate on American Literature. She later taught at Dundee and began writing short stories in 1981. She began writing...
by vjbooks | Jan 18, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(connpost.com, jan. 16, Joe Meyers) With so many “literary” novelists turning inward and away from broader social concerns and traditional storytelling, readers have been enjoying crime fiction in larger numbers each year. A genre that was once viewed as...
by vjbooks | Dec 31, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
Kate Atkinson was born in York and now lives in Edinburgh. Her first novel, ‘Behind the Scenes at the Museum’, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. She introduced police inspector turned private investigator Jackson Brodie in the critically acclaimed...
