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Atkinson, Kate Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Bantam Dell Publishing Group February 1997 0-552-99618-1 / 9780552996181 Paperback Very Good+
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: "I exist!" exclaims Ruby Lennox upon her conception in 1951, setting the tone for this humorous and poignant first novel in which Ruby at once celebrates and mercilessly skewers her middle-class English family. Peppered with tales of flawed family traits passed on from previous generations, Ruby's narrative examines the lives in her disjointed clan, which revolve around the family pet shop.
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Atkinson, Kate Case Histories
Black Swan August 5, 2008 0-552-15310-9 / 9780552153102 Paperback Near Fine
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: In this ambitious fourth novel from Whitbread winner Atkinson (Behind the Scenes at the Museum), private detective Jackson Brodie--ex-cop, ex-husband and weekend dad--takes on three cases involving past crimes that occurred in and around London. The first case introduces two middle-aged sisters who, after the death of their vile, distant father, look again into the disappearance of their beloved sister Olivia, last seen at three years old, while they were camping under the stars during an oppressive heat wave. A retired lawyer who lives only on the fumes of possible justice next enlists Jackson's aid in solving the brutal killing of his grown daughter 10 years earlier. In the third dog-eared case file, the sibling of an infamous ax-bludgeoner seeks a reunion with her niece, who as a baby was a witness to murder. Jackson's reluctant persistence heats up these cold cases and by happenstance leads him to reassess his own painful history. The humility of the extraordinary, unabashed characters is skillfully revealed with humor and surprise. Atkinson contrasts the inevitable results of family dysfunction with random fate, gracefully weaving the three stories into a denouement that taps into collective wishful thinking and suggests that warmth and safety may be found in the aftermath of blood and abandonment. Atkinson's meaty, satisfying prose will attract many eager readers.
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Atkinson, Kate Emotionally Weird
Transworld Publishers Limite June 2001 0-552-99734-X / 9780552997348 Paperback Very Good
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: On a weather-beaten island off the coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother, Nora, take refuge in a large, mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories. Effie tells various versions of her life at college where she lives with Bob, a lethargic student who seldom leaves his bed, and to whom Klingons are as real as Spaniards and Germans. But as mother and daughter spin their tales, strange things begin to happen around them. In a brilliant comic narrative which explores the nonsensical power of language and meaning, Kate Atkinson has created a magical masterpiece.
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Atkinson, Kate Human Croquet
Transworld Publishers Limite June 1998 0-552-99619-X / 9780552996198 Paperback Very Good
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Once upon a time, in far-off England, there was a small village surrounded by a mighty forest, where a dark stranger, one Francis Fairfax, arrived to build a stately home. Fairfax Manor was renowned throughout the land for its feudal pleasures, its visit from the Queen, and the mysterious beauty of Lady Fairfax, who one day cursed the Fairfax name and vanished into the forest, never to be seen again except in a ghostly haze. Fast-forward to 1960...Over the centuries the forest has been destroyed, and the Fairfaxes have dwindled, too; now they are the local grocers to their suburb of Glebelands, a family as disintegrated as its ancestral home. It is here that young Isobel Fairfax awakens on the morning of her sixteenth birthday, a day that will change everything she knows and understands about her past and her future. Helping celebrate (if one could call it that) are the members of her strange and distracted family: There is Vinny, Maiden Aunt from Hell; Gordon, Isobel's father, who disappeared for seven years; and Charles, her elder brother, who divides his time between searching for aliens and waiting for the return of their long-gone mother, Eliza. And back again...As her day progresses, Isobel is pulled into brief time warps and extended periods of omniscience, from the days of the first Fairfax to the roaring twenties to World War II, through which she learns the truth about her family and about her mother, whose disappearance is part of the secret that remains at the heart of the forest.
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Atkinson, Kate Human Croquet
Doubleday Publishing 1997 0-385-40935-4 / 9780385409353 Paperback Very Good+
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Once it had been the great forest of Lythe-a vast and impenetrable thicket of green with a mystery in the very heart of the trees. And here, in the b eginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor, visited once by t he great Gloriana herself. But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed, replaced by Streets o f Trees. The Fairfaxes had dwindled too; now they lived in 'Arden' at the end of Hawthorne Close and were hardly a family at all. There was Vinny (the Aunt from Hell)-with her cats and her crab-apple face. And Gordon, who had forgotten them for seven years and, when he remembered, came back with fat Debbie, who shared her one brain cell with a poodle. And then there were Charles and Isobel, the children. Charles, the acne-scarred Lost Boy, passed his life awaiting visits from aliens and the return of his mother. But it is Isobel to whom the story belongs-Isobel, born on the Streets of Trees, who drops into pockets of time and out again. Isobel is sixteen and she too is waiting for the return of her mother-the thin, dangerous Eliza with her scent of nicotine, Arpege and sex, whose disappearance is part of the mystery that still remains at the heart of the forest.
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Atkinson, Kate One Good Turn
Black Swan 2007 0-552-77244-5 / 9780552772440 Paperback Very Good
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Harlan Coben 'Kate Atkinson is an absolute must read. I love everything she writes.' --T his text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Guardian An absolute joy to read...Atkinson's wry, unvanquished characters, her swooping, savvy, sarcastic prose and authorial joie de vivre.'
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