Norfolk Bookworm

  The Prosecutor by Jack Fairweather (Ebury Publishing) While I have read a few books in the past couple of weeks most of them have been ok ...

  Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History by Moudhy Al-Rashid (Hodder and Stoughton) After reading Elif Shafak'...

  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...

  Top Non-Fiction read in 2021 As the New Year Bank Holiday is three days long this year I feel fully justified in spreading my 'best of...

  Minarets in the Mountains by Tharik Hussain (Bradt Publishing) I'm always on the lookout for new books to try and this one really stoo...

  Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers by Mary Wellesley (Quercus Publishing) Our recent trip to Winchester and the chanc...

Mudlarking by Lara Maiklem Since the whole Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak started the one thing I have discovered about myself is that wate...

The Ratline by Philippe Sands Back in 2016 I was blown away by Sands' first book East West Street I reviewed it in the middle of th...

I had no idea that it was nearly 2 months since my last update - it has been a busy time but I think that I blame the heat/humidity since ...

The Century Girls by Tessa Dunlop 1918 was a momentous year in so many ways - the end of World War One, the partial granting of the vot...

Book Review  Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson (many thanks to Netgalley for the advance copy of this title) It feels like I'...

Nell Gwynn, Shakespeare's Globe, London. May 2016. I am so pleased that this has come back to the Globe. In 2015, when it first pla...

Mr Foote's Other Leg, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London. January 2016. The joy of a weekend in London means the chance to see more tha...

Richard II, Shakespeare's Globe, London. August 2015. This was a surprise addition to my theatre going calendar as I was lucky enou...

Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's Globe, London. August 2014. This was a postponed play, Mr Norfolkbookworm and I had booked to s...