Norfolk Bookworm

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

  Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 and some recently read books. While I was poorly I made an effort to read some of the physical books that I ha...

  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 ...

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

  March (volumes 1-3) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell (published by Top Shelf Productions) Summer 2020 has been marked with many...

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...

My reading has become a little disorganised of late for three main reasons: a lot of my non fiction reservations arrived in one go at the ...

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...

Take Courage by Samantha Ellis By jove, Biggles by Peter Berresford Ellis & Piers Williams (Jennifer Schofield) Non fiction alway...

Lawrence After Arabia, Hampstead Theatre, London. April 2016. On a lovely sunny, if not warm, evening Rebecca and I went out to Hampste...

Handbagged, Theatre Royal, Norwich. November 2015. This was a last minute booking for me and a convenient matinee at the theatre opposi...

Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr It seems appropriate for two reasons to be reading the biography of Sally ...

One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson That Fateful Year: 1914 by Mark Bostridge It is no secret that I like to read non-fiction, in f...

The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel After that very busy weekend I'm spending some time at home and thanks to some less than seas...

Strange Meetings by Harry Ricketts ... well this is a book review post to shock my dad (and many others that know me) I think I...

Ranger Confidential by Andrea Lankford While we were in America we actually only went into a couple of bookshops, and they were second-hand ...

The Genius in my Basement by Alexander Masters Back when I was reading all of the World Book Night books I discovered, and was blown away by...

...the shops are full of s'lebrity autobiographies! I've just walked through the city centre and while I wasn't actually shoppin...