About this book
Human Croquet (1997) continues the formally playful, darkly funny mode Kate Atkinson established with her Whitbread-winning debut, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Published two years later at 349 pages, it precedes Emotionally Weird in her early run of literary novels circling memory, family, and the strange persistence of the past.
Key facts about Human Croquet
Human Croquet is a book by Kate Atkinson. Readers have had it since 1997. It runs to 349 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Human Croquet. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780312155506 to find the main one.
Kate Atkinson has 16 books in our catalogue. 6 of them belong to a series, while 10 stand alone. Other books by Kate Atkinson on file include Normal Rules Don't Apply (2023), Shrines of Gaiety (2022), Big Sky (2019) and Transcription (2018).
Before this one, Behind the Scenes at the Museum came out in 1995. After it came Emotionally Weird in 2000. Since then, our list has added 13 more books by Kate Atkinson.
Kate Atkinson has 1 series on file, Jackson Brodie. 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.
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780312155506