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2 months ago | 
commonreader.wustl.edu | Kate Atkinson |Jeannette Cooperman
“‘I prayed for you,’ Fran said, in the kind of matter-of-fact way that Simon felt he had never mastered himself…. Did Fran believe in God?…. ‘Not one bit, but that didn’t stop me praying.’”—from Death at the Sign of the Rook, by Kate AtkinsonI used to love to pray. Making myself small, I felt a calm expanse, a largeness, surrounding me. Kneeling was a letting go, giving in to gravity so there was no longer any distance to fall.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
lesen.de | Elif Shafak |Kat Gordon |Kate Atkinson |Armando Correa
Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, her world is turned upside down. She embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
bbrief.co.za | Kate Atkinson
A Jackson Brodie NovelBy Kate AtkinsonJackson Brodie returns! From the Number One bestselling author, a brilliantly clever take on the classic country house murder mystery; a homage to writers such as Agatha Christie. Welcome to Rook HallThe stage is set. The players are ready. By night’s end, a murderer will be revealed. Ex-detective Jackson Brodie is staving off a bad case of midlife malaise when he is called to a sleepy Yorkshire town, and the seemingly tedious matter of a stolen painting.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Kate Atkinson
Jason Isaacs is clearly having a rollicking good time narrating Kate Atkinson's latest Jackson Brodie novel. It's jammed full of Agatha Christie tropes--butlers, vicars, nobles, retired veterans, and detectives all trapped in a great house in a snowstorm--but they're all turned on their heads. The butler is Australian, the vicar has lost faith, the nobles are broke, and the Major keeps bees. And the detectives?
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
thedailynewsonline.com | Chris Hewitt |Kate Atkinson
After a five-year absence, Jackson Brodie returns in “Death at the Sign of the Rook.” Readers of the mega-selling mystery series will be thrilled, but is Kate Atkinson? The writer, who has expressed ambivalence about returning to the character and who also had huge success with non-Brodie books including “Life After Life” and “Shrines of Gaiety,” whipped out four Brodie mysteries in quick succession in the oughts.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
bookreporter.com | Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson’s novels featuring Detective Jackson Brodie (DEATH AT THE SIGN OF THE ROOK is the sixth) always begin a bit off-kilter, and this one is no exception. The reader is introduced in short order to a group of people who have been instructed to gather in the library of an English manor house. The characters include Sir Lancelot Hardwick, Countess Voranskaya and American film star Guy Burroughs. If this sounds a bit like a low-rent Agatha Christie novel, you’re on the right track.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
windsorstar.com | Matt Haig |Carol Off |Kate Atkinson |Elsie Silver
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
sacbee.com | Kate Atkinson
After a five-year absence, Jackson Brodie returns in "Death at the Sign of the Rook." Readers of the mega-selling mystery series will be thrilled, but is Kate Atkinson? The writer, who has expressed ambivalence about returning to the character and who also had huge success with non-Brodie books including"Life After Life" and"Shrines of Gaiety," whipped out four Brodie mysteries in quick succession in the oughts.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
arcamax.com | Kate Atkinson |Pete Tamburro |Holiday Mathis |Jase Graves
Reading a novel sometimes gives us a sense of not only the characters’ emotions but the author’s. There are novels that feel like they were written in anger, others that grow out of grief or passion. And sometimes it feels like the author is just fulfilling a contract. Kate Atkinson’s “Death at the Sign of the Rook” feels like joy. On every page, I had a sense of Atkinson having a ripping good time writing it.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
l8r.it | Lee Child |Will Carver |Louise Candlish |Kate Atkinson
LoveReading Says About Press Reviews Author LoveReading Says On the subject of writing short stories, Lee Child shares in his foreword that “the joy was stepping out and trying something different every time. Something new. Period, place, nationality, personality – everything. It was liberating. And fun”, while also modestly noting that he never figured out that “mysterious short-story thing the great writers do”.
