Kate Atkinson

So, um, I put this in that bucket.

So Attica Locke and then the other one that I, I used to like reading a lot, um, Kate Atkinson.

Mm.

Um, British author.

How about you, Cath? What have you been digging into?

Uh, oh, loads of things, but most recently, uh, in fact, yesterday I picked off the, uh, new releases hot reads shelf at the local library, the new Kate Atkinson book called Our Noble Selves, and a friend was dropping by as I lobbed into the house with it, and she said, "Ah," her partner was reading that, and he'd got nearly to the end and thought, "I still don't know what genre this book is."

Ooh.

And I th- I'd read just a tiny bit of it by that stage.

But let me tell you about the four books that we are reading today.

Number one is Our Noble Selves by Kate Atkinson.

Wow, big time.

Uh, number two is The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster.

One.

One.

Our Noble Selves by Kate Atkinson, and she is a big deal.

She's a-

The pleasure is the gentle social satire and the community dynamics.

It's the same atmospheric comfort we see in Kate Atkinson's Our Noble Selves, released in September.

It leans heavily on tone.

A completely different era, but the same tonal safety net.

Which I, which I absolutely loved.

And I've got the John Boyne's book on Oscar Wilde by the bed, busting to be read, but I've st- I've got to get through Kate Atkinson first.

You must have bought the John Boyne...

It only came out on Friday, didn't it, Chris? When did it come out?

So if I, if I hand it to you now, will you read, will you read it?

Probably not bec- I mean, I will, but it'll, it will be languishing-

You've got Kate Atkinson

...

And for me, you know, reading a favorite author, a new book by a favorite author that I know already I'm going to love because I've always liked this person's work is a, is a real treat.

And so the- and this time of year, of course, there's so many good new books out in the autumn, isn't there? So I started the new Kate Atkinson, Noble Selves, on my lunch break, and it was a real treat.

And I-

Yeah

And they have a book also from Bloomsbury, who are gonna have a big Christmas, called A History of the World in Fifty-One Heroes and Villains.

Uh, Kate Atkinson has a new novel called Our Noble Selves.

This is her literary strand, not a crime novel.

But for crime fans, there are some very big ones out, apart from Richard Osman.