Norfolk Bookworm

  The Secret Christmas Bookshop by Cressida McLaughlin (Harper Collins) A small disclaimer here as I do know the author and have worked with...

  Comet In Moominland by Tove Jannson /Translated by Elizabeth Portch (Puffin Books) Over the weekend I got in to a discussion about the Moo...

  Florence: Ordeal by Water by Kathrine Kressman Taylor (Manderley Press) Until I read Still Life  by Sarah Winman a few years ago I'd n...

  A monthly challenge that I can get behind! I keep setting myself laudable reading goals/challenges and then failing miserably to keep to t...

  Come From Away - Norwich Theatre Royal. Back before the pandemic I used to go to the theatre an awful lot - which was great from both a cu...

  Budget busting! I'm guessing that regular readers of the blog will realise that I am a voracious and omnivorous reader with a serious ...

  There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak (Penguin Books) I'm known in family circles for being someone who swallows books whole  - I...

  Edith Holler by Edward Carey (Gallic Books) I couldn't resist this book when Gallic Books were offering advance copies to reviewers, a...

  Turtle Moon by Hannah Gold, illustrated by Levi Pinfold (HarperCollins) I think that it was Kentishbookboy who introduced me to Hannah Gol...

  A week away After the dodgy summer that we've had Mr Norfolkbookworm and I decided that we needed a week away doing nothing except eat...

  Books that have stayed with me. As previously mentioned on Social Media I took part in a challenge to list a book that had stayed with me ...

  Books that have stayed with me. As previously mentioned on Social Media I took part in a challenge to list a book that had stayed with me ...

  Twenty Books, Twenty Days On social media I've recently been taking part in a challenge about books. The idea is that you pick 20 book...

  Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Pan Macmillan) This was my last read from the Waterstones Prize shortlist and sadly it wasn't a case that I...

  I am so pleased that I saw advance warning of this go by online as while I do read a lot of books in translation (40 last year and 36 alre...

  Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly (Cornerstone) My shortlist reading continued with this quirky book from New Zealand and it was one ...

  Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon (Penguin Books) As I started reading the books for the Debut Fiction Prize so late I was aware that thi...

  The Silence in Between by Josie Ferguson (Transworld) Next from the Debut Fiction list for me was The Silence in Between  and again on pap...

  Mongrel by Hanako Footman (Footnote Press) This was my second read from the Waterstones Debut list simply because it was the next book tha...

  The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (Sceptre) Other reading projects meant that I didn't get round to reading the shortlist for th...

  Paws & Portals by Ellie Warren (Curiosity Killed the Bookworm) Sometimes what you need to read is a gentle, fun book that takes you ri...

  I really didn't mean for two months to go by without a blog post, this time my excuse is a travel adventure and then reading books in ...

  Kammy: My Unbelievable Life by Chris Kamara (Pan Macmillan) I've written before about how I often read for various projects which intr...

  Safiyyah's War by Hiba Noor Khan (Andersen Press) I read this book back last summer and really enjoyed reading it. It is  another book...

  How can it be February already? The adage about time speeding up as you get older is definitely true and while January did feel like it ha...