Norfolk Bookworm

  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...

  Agent Zo by Clare Mulley (Orion Publishing) & The CIA Book Club by Charlie English (HarperCollins) Thanks to the Women's Prize for...

  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 ...

  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...

  Changing the way we think about the Dutch experiences of World War Two A few years ago I read and reviewed Bart van Es's book The Cut ...

  A Complicated Matter by Anne Youngson (Doubleday) I am always going to read everything that Youngson writes after the wonderful gift her...

  The Ticket Collector from Belarus by Mike Andersen & Neil Hanson (Simon & Schuster) A Village in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd and...

 When the Sky Falls by Phil Earle (Andersen Press) This one was another recommendation from Kentishbookboy as it was their family read a few...

  The Betrayal of Anne Frank by Rosemary Sullivan (Harper Collins) Long term followers of my reviews know that books about the Holocaust fea...

  The Edelweiss Pirates by Dirk Reinhardt, trans. Rachel Ward (Pushkin Press) There are lots of books, fiction and non, about WW2 resistance...

  The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, trans. Philip Boehm. (Pushkin Press) How to talk about this book? Set in November 1938 in the...

  The Swallows' Flight by Hilary McKay (Macmillan Children's Books) Net Galley eProof Back in 2018, when my reading stamina was at i...

Umbrella Mouse to the Rescue - Anna Fargher Originally due to be published in April I've had an advance copy of this book sitting o...

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...

The Umbrella Mouse by Anna Fargher This was the first book that the Norfolkbookworm and the Kentishbookboy read simultaneously. For me ...

Island Song - Madeleine Bunting. I've written on here before about liking books set in the Channel Islands during World War Two and...

The Cut Out Girl by Bart Van Es As soon as I saw this book on the Costa Longlist I knew that I'd want to read it and finally it has...

Book Review: Dear Mrs Bird (review copy provided by Net Galley) This was a book I read quite a while ago, before I fell ill in fact, b...

There hasn't been too much on at the cinema lately that I've wanted to see but typically just now there are three films all once. ...

March was a good month for reading with me, thanks to that lovely holiday at the start of the month (and then a nasty cold later on) I rea...