When Will There Be Good News?
- Published
- 1 January 2008
- Pages
- 388
- ISBN-13
- 9780316039796
- Type
- novel
About this book
Kate Atkinson followed One Good Turn with When Will There Be Good News, published in 2008 at 388 pages, continuing the run of Jackson Brodie novels she had put out roughly every two years since 2004.
Key facts about When Will There Be Good News?
When Will There Be Good News? is a novel by Kate Atkinson. Readers have had it since 2008. It runs to 388 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of When Will There Be Good News?. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780316039796 to find the main one.
When Will There Be Good News? is book 3 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
When Will There Be Good News? is book 3 in the Jackson Brodie series. It follows One Good Turn. It is followed by Started Early, Took My Dog. 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 9780316012836
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780316039796