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Our Noble Selves by Kate Atkinson review – quirky postwar nostalgia from the Life After Life author

There are glimpses of Atkinson’s subtle brilliance in this gentle noirish mystery set around the Festival of Britain

The Guardian - UK

‘This extraordinary story never goes out of fashion’: 30 authors on the books they give to everyone

Colm Tóibín, Robert Macfarlane, Elif Shafak, Michael Rosen and more share the novels, poetry and memoirs that make the perfect gift

The Guardian - UK

Kate Atkinson honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award from Saltire Society

‘It’s a pleasure to be recognised alongside so many gifted writers,’ said the author best knowd for her novels ‘Life After Life’ and ‘Case Histories’

The Independent UK

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Kate Atkinson honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award

The winners of this year’s Saltires, Scotland’s National Book Awards were announced on Wednesday evening.

The Independent UK

“I used it to show people that the way they were portraying me wasn’t breaking me": How Taylor Swift created a self-empowering pop classic

"I had more fun writing it than any song I’d written before”

MusicRadar

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in October

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month

The Guardian - UK

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson; Guilty By Definition by Susie Dent; Sanctuary by Garry Disher; The Examiner by Janice Hallett; Sounds Like a Plan by Pamela Samuels Young and Dwayne Alexander Smith

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Novelist Kate Atkinson: ‘I do feel a need to prove myself’

As her latest Jackson Brodie thriller comes out, the award-winning author discusses cosy crime, sniffy critics, and how she investigated her own family’s secrets

The Guardian - UK

Crime and thrillers of the month – review

In a month full of big hitters, Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie makes a welcome return, Mick Herron’s reissued debut doesn’t disappoint – and Janice Hallett is as ingenious as ever

The Guardian - UK

Pulp, page-turners and pure joy: the ultimate summer reading list, picked by you

After we published our list of the best beach reads, we asked readers for their suggestions – including ‘mercifully brief’ fantasy, raucous comedy and a crime thriller that’s ‘tense as hell’

The Guardian - AU

The week in TV: The Winter King; Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution; Vanishing Act; Gyeongseong Creature – review

ITV’s answer to Game of Thrones doesn’t stint on gore; disco gets the glittering treatment it deserves; Crimewatch meets Kath and Kim in a botched Australian true crime drama; and a sinister ‘creature’ stalks 1940s Korea

The Guardian - UK

Normal Rules Don’t Apply by Kate Atkinson audiobook review – tales of fantastical mundanity

Paterson Joseph reads short stories of talking animals and ghostly revelations that weave into a melancholic, askew chimera of magic and quotidian woes

The Guardian - UK

Normal Rules Don’t Apply by Kate Atkinson review – a mixed bag of stories

The end of the world is repeatedly visited in this playful collection set in an alternative England

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 female spies in fiction

Women’s role in espionage, largely written by women, leans less on explosions and more on perception, nuance and explorations of sacrifice – though they still kick ass

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The Independent UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Book Of Fire by Christy Lefteri and Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck.

The Guardian - UK

Normal Rules Don’t Apply by Kate Atkinson review – food for thought but such small portions

While brimming with ideas, the Life After Life author’s 11 interlinked stories aren’t given the legs they need to resonate

Evening Standard

Vanishing Act on ITVX – this scamming drama feels criminally misjudged

It’s a compelling true story that would have been better left as a documentary

The Guardian - UK

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart to Heartstopper: the seven best shows to stream this week

Sigourney Weaver stars in a beautifully shot drama as the guardian to a young granddaughter; while the smart, charming and innovative LGBTQ+ coming-of-age series returns

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Vanishing Act: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interviews and everything you need to know

Vanishing Act on ITVX is an Australian drama that follows the real-life mystery behind the disappearance of Melissa Caddick.

Tribune News Service

10 books that 10 critics loved this year

“When Women Were Dragons,” by Kelly Barnhill. (Doubleday, $28.)

Tribune News Service

Kate Atkinson dazzles with ‘Shrines of Gaiety’

"Shrines of Gaiety" by Kate Atkinson; Doubleday (416 pages, $29)

Tribune News Service

Review: 'Shrines of Gaiety,' by Kate Atkinson

FICTION: Set in post-World War I London, Atkinson's latest follows a nightclub owner and her nefarious enterprises.

The Guardian - UK

Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson review – thrills, spills and gone girls

The award-winning author of Life After Life dazzles with a supple tale rich in period detail about the shady goings-on at a Soho nightclub

ABC News

The best new books released in September as selected by avid readers and critics

Our critics’ picks include a historical melodrama based on a real-life maybe murder, a romp through the illegal dance halls of 20s London and a gloriously biting satire set in Rwanda.

The Independent UK

‘Oh, she gets away with so much’: The mischievous world of Kate Atkinson

Kate Atkinson’s books have won prizes and been made into TV dramas, but the author prefers to let her work speak for itself. As her 12th novel ‘Shrines of Gaiety’ is released, Nick Duerden explores how she became one of our most brilliantly idiosyncratic bestsellers

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