Dear Reader

Welcome to BookCrossing and thanks for being a part of World Book Night 2011, the largest book giveaway in history. 1,000,000 specially printed copies of 25 different books changed hands on March 5th 2011 and began their journey from reader to reader. This book is one of them. World Book Night has joined with BookCrossing to help track these books as they travel. You can be a part of that journey by making a comment in the book's journal here on BookCrossing. Your journal entry can say how you got the book, what you thought of it, your plans for it or whatever else you might like to add.

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This book is being released via BookCrossing on 5 March 2011 as part of the inaugural World Book Night. With the full support of the Publishers Association, the Booksellers Association, the Independent Publishers Guild, the Reading Agency with libraries, World Book Day and the BBC, one million books will be given away by an army of passionate readers to members of the public across the UK and Ireland.

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‘Case Histories’ is my choice of book to give away on World Book Night 2011. It is the first of Kate Atkinson’s books to include Jackson Brodie and is a great introduction to her crime novels. It is set in two eras, a decade apart, and neatly flicks between the two to really engage the reader and create a believable mystery and intrigue. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did and will then pass it on to other people who will also enjoy it.

If you are interested in the other Kate Atkinson books which include returning characters from this book, they are (in order): ‘One Good Turn’, ‘When Will There Be Good News’ and ‘Started Early, Took My Dog’. They are all highly recommended too.

Happy reading!

Passed to wal-89 as she hasn't read any Kate Atkinson and I'd like her to try!

Received from my sister on a lovely visit to Bradford. She has highly recommended Kate Atkinson, so looking forward to seeing if we have the same tastes :) Added to my massive TBR pile. Thanks very much bradgirl and World Book Night.

Stayed up a bit late last night finishing this book :) I wasn't really into it at the beginning, as I just couldn't connect with the main character, Jackson Brodie, and although I still didn't really care much about him at the end, the other characters felt more important to me. I liked the switching between the characters, I always like it when that happens, and I also enjoyed the slow development of the different stories. Would probably read another Kate Atkinson, but I woudn't say she was a favourite of mine. Thanks again, bradgirl. Reserved for my dad.

Passed on to my Dad, not sure what he has done with it now...lost to the world of travelling books probably :o)

It took some time but when I finally got around to reading this I couldn't put it down. I am not sure what will happen now as there is a very good chance that a non-English speaker will pick it up. Hopefully you will give it a good home. I will read some more Kate Atkinson