SHRINES OF GAIETY, by Kate Atkinson (Doubleday, $37)
hat genre is Atkinson’s latest, and satisfyingly long, novel? Detective fiction, a comic crime caper, literary fiction? The answer, which applied to her Jackson Brodie novels and applies even more so here, is: Who knows? Whatever genre, it should win all the prizes. (But it won’t, because Atkinson has asked her publishers to