The title of British author Kate Atkinson’s new short-story collection, “Normal Rules Don’t Apply,” could easily be repurposed for an eventual memoir. Atkinson, who didn’t start writing until age 40 ...

Jackson Brodie is back, and he’s still kind of a dreamboat. The handsome investigator whom Kate Atkinson introduced in 2004’s “Case Histories,” played by Jason Isaacs on the BBC series, hasn’t ...

One reason I am always delighted to hear that Kate Atkinson has written a new novel is that I know I’m in for surprises, of the best kind. Atkinson’s brilliant, award-winning books are hard to ...

"Shrines of Gaiety," by Kate Atkinson (Doubleday, 416 pages, $29) If Dickens had lived to write about the Jazz Age, he would have produced a novel much like Kate Atkinson’s “Shrines of Gaiety.” A ...

“Transcription” by Kate Atkinson (Little, Brown, $16.99). Atkinson follows up the brilliant pairing of “Life After Life” and “A God in Ruins” with another wartime novel; this time a stand-alone. It ...

She turned time inside out in 'Life After Life' and made crime fiction feel utterly new in 'Case Histories.' Now Kate Atkinson, takes on WWII espionage. Leah Greenblatt is the former critic at large ...

Surprising, versatile, dark and funny, the British writer has something for (almost) everyone. By Sadie Stein Our crime columnist recommends books starring hard-boiled investigators who are ready to ...

In search of something good to read? USA TODAY's Barbara VanDenburgh scopes out the shelves for this week’s hottest new book releases. 1. “Big Sky,” by Kate Atkinson (Little, Brown and Co., fiction, ...

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One reason I am always delighted to hear that Kate Atkinson has written a new novel is that I know I’m in for surprises, of the best kind. Atkinson’s brilliant, award-winning books are hard to ...

Kate Atkinson has a practice of making herself scarce whenever her latest book is about to be published. “Big Sky,” the fifth of her novels to feature the gruff, melancholy private eye Jackson Brodie, ...