Kate Atkinson is delighted at becoming an MBE for producing a series of best-selling and critically acclaimed books. The award-winning novelist from York said the honour was a boost for the arts and a personal tribute to her efforts over more than 15 years as a published writer.
Speaking after the receiving the honour from the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace yesterday, she added: "I'm delighted and honoured and very surprised to get the MBE. It's a great tribute to the arts. I think it's a really nice thing for writers to get awards. If you look at who's here today, obviously people are getting awards for charity (work) which they should do, but there are very few people from the arts. I'm not criticising, I'm just saying it's nice."
Kate had a very successful event on 15th July as part of the Harrogate Festival, with the sturdy Harrogate folk braving the rain to listen to her talk about her work, with particularly reference to her latest Jackson Brodie novel Started Early, Took My Dog, which Kate refers to her as her 'hymn to Yorkshire'.
Click on the images below to see larger versions. The middle photo is Kate's attempt at recreating the book jacket.
Started Early, Took My Dog is the current Book of the Month on parenting website Mumsnet and Kate logged on to the site on 22nd June to take part in a live webchat.
For those of you who missed the chat, you can still view the Q&A in full on the Mumsnet site.
Full details can be found here.
Started Early, Took My Dog will be the Daily Telegraph’s Bookclub choice for July.
The four-week promotion will begin on 2nd July with a profile interview with Kate and will be followed by an online discussion and in-print commentary throughout the month.
Recent titles featured in the bookclub include, Paul Murray's Skippy Dies, Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question and Michael Faber's The Crimson Petal.
Find out more about the Daily Telegraph Bookclub.
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A CD box set containing the first three audiobooks of Kate Atkinson's bestselling Jackson Brodie novels is now available. The abridged recordings comprise Case Histories, One Good Turn and When Will There Be Good News? across 15 CDs and are narrated by Jason Isaacs who plays Jackson in the BBC adaptation.
Kate will be appearing at the Harrogate International Summer Festival20on 15th July. The event will take place against the iconic backdrop of the Fountains Abbey.
Tickets are priced at £10 each and can be purchased online at the Harrogate Theatre website.
For more information,20visit harrogate-festival.org.uk.
The first three Jackson Brodie titles are now available with fabulous new jacket artwork to coincide with the BBC television series.
Each jacket features a scene from the series, which stars Jason Isaacs as leading man Jackson Brodie.
To read more and purchase your copy, visit the Jackson Brodie section of this site.
Find out more about the Daily Telegraph Bookclub.
Read more about Started Early2C Took My Dog.
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