Norfolk Bookworm

  The Wine-Dark Sea by Victoria Hislop (Headline) There are some authors whose books you just know you're going to read regardless and H...

  August has become Women in Translation month in the book world and it does always come as a good reminder to me to make sure that I am rea...

  Another month gone, and as I type this the weather also seems to have left summer behind and turned more autumnal, although more heatwaves...

  Back in 2021 I challenged myself to read as many of the Wainwright Prize nominated books as I could. I really enjoyed doing this and disco...

  Another month gone and we're well over half way through 2026 which doesn't seem possible. July was a mixed month for reading - the...

  As I said in my last post I read an awful lot of books while we were in Greece (when my attention wasn't on some of the cute cats in t...

  Another month gone and just under two weeks of this were spent on a Greek island doing nothing but read, rest, eat, and swim. It also mean...

  Another month gone - and thanks to the unseasonable heatwave we spent a lot of time outside. When not out and about in nature it was often...

  April, like every other month so far this year, passed in a flash and May seems to have sped up faster still hence my round up being so la...

  March seems to have passed in a flash this year but it was another good reading month - this time helped by two days of travel and also be...

  Well February was a quick month, and a busy one - two day trips to London gave me a bonus 8 hours reading time too (the WiFi on Greater An...

  Finds from the archives. When I'm not at work, reading, or out taking photos I also volunteer at the Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum o...

How can a month that seemed to last about a 1000 days have passed in such a flash that I didn't manage to blog at all? Especially as som...

  Well my intention to blog consistently during 2025 didn't quite work - life got away from me a bit at the end of the year and while I ...

  Barbara Isn't Dying by Alina Bronsky, translated by Tim Mohr (Europa Editions) I really must start writing down where I see books ment...

  Jellyfish Have No Ears by Adele Rosenfeld, translated by Jeffery Zuckerman (McLehose Press) This was an interesting read, and while I don...

  As three quarters of the year has now passed I am really impressed at how much more of my map I have scratched off since June- I appreciat...

  Space Invaders by Nona Fernandez, translated by Natasha Wimmer (Daunt Books Publishing)  This was a slim book that caught my eye the last ...

Women in Translation Month was such a good way to concentrate my read around the world project and a good way to clear a fraction of my TBR ...

Just a Little Dinner by Cecile Tlili, translated by Katherine Gregor. (Foundry Editions) I read and loved Foundry Edition's first book -...

Free Ride by Noraly Schoenmaker, translated by Bo-Elise Brummelkamp (Canelo) I think that this book popped on to my radar after reading Sovi...

  The Lake by Bianca Bellova, translated by Alex Zucker. (Parthian Books) I picked this book up for my reading the world project as it is by...

  When the Museum is Closed by Emi Yagi (trans. Yuki Tejima) Vintage Publishing My second read for Women In Translation was a relatively sho...

  When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzen, translated by Alice Menzies (Transworld Publishing). August is Women in Translation month and my...