Booking Ahead/Weekly Wrap Up
13 September 2026
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Tags: Book Review, Book Reviews, Booking Ahead, Books, Caffeinated Book Reviewer, Emily St John Mandel, Exit Party, fiction, Kate Atkinson, Our Noble Selves, reading, Sunday Post, Weekly wrap up

Today I’m posting my Weekly Wrap Up and I’m linking up to The Sunday Post over at Kimberly’s Caffeinated Reviewer. Without further ado:
Weekly Update
It’s been a nice chilled week. I carried on with my read of Our Noble Selves by Kate Atkinson. This was a real change of pace. A historical novel set in the period just after World War II. Atkinson is literally a genius at capturing the essence of a period and also bringing quirky characters to the scene. This is a very mild murder mystery with an essence of espionage. Very easy to read and with a cheeky fun element. I also couldn’t resist picking up the latest book by Emily St John Mandel, Exit Party – and, much as I expected, this was wonderfully complex, strangely compelling and utterly unusual. Where on earth do these ideas come from! I’ve just started Worry Box by Chris Panatier, it’s early days but I’m hoping to tuck a good chunk of this under my belt later today.


Next Week’s Reads
Complete Chris Panatier’s Worry Box and then I’m hoping to pick up either Pride, Prejudice and Peril by Jessica Bull or Carry Me To My Grave by Christopher Golden. Lets see how I get on.



Reviews Posted:
- Murder At The Grand Alpine Hotel by Lucy Foley
- Serenity Falls by CJ Tudor.


Outstanding Reviews
- The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson
- This Blade of Ours by Shalini Abeysekara
- Our Noble Selves by Kate Atkinson.
- Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel
Hoping to see you round the blogosphere this forthcoming week
I’m so jealous you’ve read Exit Party! I can’t read it until Tuesday when my preorder (hopefully) arrives. Enjoy the Christopher Golden, I loved it😁