Big Sky
- Published
- 13 June 2019
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9781409043850
- Type
- novel
About this book
After Started Early, Took My Dog in 2010, Atkinson left a nine-year gap before Big Sky, published on 13 June 2019 at 400 pages -- by far the longest interval between any two books in the series.
Key facts about Big Sky
Kate Atkinson wrote Big Sky, a novel on our list. It has been out since 13 June 2019. The book has 400 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781409043850 to find the main one.
Big Sky is book 5 of 6 in the Jackson Brodie series. The series has 6 published books. However, the series starts with Case Histories (2004). Death at the Sign of the Rook is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 5 September 2024.
That series sits on our literary crime shelf. Meanwhile, Death at the Sign of the Rook is the latest published Kate Atkinson book on file, from 5 September 2024.
About Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson is a British novelist who moves between literary fiction and crime writing, best known within the mystery genre for the Jackson Brodie series, which follows a former police detective turned private investigator through cases that unfold with the structural playfulness and interest in coincidence and fate more typical of Atkinson's literary novels than conventional crime fiction. See every Kate Atkinson book in order.
Its place in Jackson Brodie
Big Sky is book 5 in the Jackson Brodie series. It follows Started Early, Took My Dog. It is followed by Death at the Sign of the Rook. See the full Jackson Brodie reading order.
Jackson Brodie is a former army policeman turned Cambridge CID detective turned semi-reluctant private investigator, drifting through a life of failed marriages, missing-persons cases and a nagging inability to stay retired. Kate Atkinson uses him less as a conventional detective-novel engine than as a connective thread through structurally daring, multi-stranded literary fiction: each book braids together several seemingly unrelated storylines and characters — old crimes, cold cases, coincidences that ripple…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780385691550
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781409043850