Kate Atkinson is one of the most prolific of those British literary shape-shifters. (Ishiguro's win of the Nobel Prize in literature last year is reassuring in that regard.) Certainly, it's not that literary novelists of other nationalities don't experiment with genre fiction - Jennifer Egan, Philip Roth and Margaret Atwood come to mind - but the Brits don't seem to fret as much about the whole business of categories. I'm thinking of novelists like Kazuo Ishiguro, John Banville, Emma Donoghue and Julian Barnes, who blithely bounce from literary fiction to fantasy to detective stories with little worry that their reputation as "serious writers" will be damaged. It may be just my impression, but the Brits and Irish seem to worry less about keeping up appearances than American writers do.
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