Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Friday 24 May
8:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Kate Atkinson’s first book, Behind the Scenes of the Museum, beat Salman Rushdie to win the Whitbread Book of the Year.
Since then, she’s captured readers' hearts with her tough-but-empathetic Yorkshire PI, Jackson Brodie.
Her latest book, the wildly inventive Life After Life, is shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction – and hotly tipped for this year’s Booker.
What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you got it right? The characters in this genre-bending book get just that.
Atkinson will be in conversation with Sue Turnbull.
Kate Atkinson appears as part of a double-bill with Sylvia Nasar. Book your discounted tickets to both sessions here.
Kate Atkinson is presented in association with Sisters in Crime.
Featuring
Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, and has been a critically acclaimed international author ever since.
Her most recent four bestsellers featured the former private detective Jackson Brodie: Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog. She was appointed MBE in the 2011 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
Sue Turnbull
Sue Turnbull is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Wollongong. Her research interests include media education, media audiences and television studies.
Sue’s recent publications include Remembering Television (2012), a book of essays co-edited with Professor Kate Darian-Smith, which considers the history of television in Australia; and Investigating Veronica Mars: Essays on the Teen Detective Series (McFarland 2011) co-edited with Professor Rhonda Wilcox.
Sue is a frequent media commentator and is crime fiction reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald. She is a past judge of the Age Book of the Year and the Victorian Premier’s Literary awards. Since 1992, Sue has been a co-convenor of the influential network, Sisters in Crime Australia, which has done much to promote women’s crime writing in this country.
Sue’s most recent book on the television crime drama will be published by Edinburgh University Press in December 2013.