Kate Atkinson on the Return of Jackson Brodie

The Book Review

The New York Times

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🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The British writer Kate Atkinson has had a rich and varied career since publishing her first book in 1996. But she may be best known for her Jackson Brodie series of crime novels. Sarah Lyall speaks with Atkinson about the sixth entry in the series, "Death at the Sign of the Rook."

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0:00.0	I'm Gilbert Cruz editor of the New York Times Book Review and this is the Book Review
0:08.0	Podcast.
0:09.0	We're back from our brief Labor Day hiatus.
0:11.8	I hope you had some time off. I hope you use some of that time to maybe
0:16.2	read a book or two. The fall season is finally upon us and I can tell you it's about to get very
0:22.1	crowded book-wise.
0:23.4	So if you need a bit of guidance in terms of what to look forward to,
0:26.9	you should definitely check out our fall previews at nytimes.com.
0:31.1	We'll tell you about the fiction, poetry, the non-fiction that should definitely
0:35.4	be on your radar over the next few months.
0:38.3	And one of those books, if you're a mystery fan, will likely be Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson.
0:45.2	This is the sixth novel starring Atkinson's beloved private eye Jackson Brody, and on this
0:50.2	week's episode, Sarah Lyle, who's fresh off many weeks covering the Paris Olympics
0:55.2	speaks with Atkinson about her new novel.
1:00.3	I'm Sarah Lyle with the New York Times Book Review and I'm delighted to have on the
1:07.5	podcast today the British writer Kate Atkinson, the author of numerous novels
1:12.4	and short story collections.
1:14.6	Her debut novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Wittred Book of the Year Award
1:19.5	in 1996.
1:21.5	In the 2010s, two of her other novels, Life After Life and its sequel, A God in Ruins,
1:27.0	won the Costa Award for Best Novel of the Year in Britain.
1:31.0	She's written six books in a series featuring a much tested
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