Kate Atkinson
Our opening Meet the Author event for 2009 went off with a bang - and why not? After all, the award-garlanded Kate Atkinson's perceptive and beguiling tales of love and loss, with not a little humour, are read by millions and she's is held in high esteem both by fellow writers and readers. Here she talks about her new novel When Will There Be Good News? in which PI Jackson Brodie gets embroiled in more shenanigans.
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