Norfolk Bookworm

Revolver - Marcus Sedgwick Once more I've been reading a lot but not finding much that is worth writing about. Nothing bad but just noth...

Moon Dust - Andrew Smith At 16.10 GMT on July 24th 1969 Apollo 11 splashed down safely. Kennedy's dream of putting a man on the moon and...

Fallen Astronauts - Burgess, Doolan & Vis Space travel is not without risk, this is something that all astronauts, cosmonauts and taikon...

Almost Astronauts - Tanya Lee Stone It wasn't until the launch of Space Shuttle Challenger in June 1983 that America let a woman go int...

First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong - James Hansen Hundreds of millions of people around the world watched Neil Armstrong take his first s...

Magnificent Desolation - Buzz Aldrin Buzz Aldrin stepped on to the surface of the moon twenty minutes after his commander on July 21st and w...

Carrying the Fire - Michael Collins There have been many books written about the Apollo 11 mission, some shortly after the success and many...

How 400 000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon Aldrin, Armstrong and Collins have said from the very beginning that they were the smallest...

A Man on the Moon - Andrew Chaikin Before concentrating just on the stunning Apollo 11 mission it is worth thinking about how and why Ameri...

5..4..3..2..1..we have lift off! It is forty years today since the Saturn V Rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center launch the crew of...

Confessions of Georgia Nicholson - Louise Rennison. I'm feeling a bit sad today as another series I've read from the beginning comes...

Henderson's Boys by Robert Muchamore . Book 1 - The Escape Book 2 - Eagle Day Robert Muchamore has a loyal fan base , all of whom love ...

It's terrible, I've developed a new condition, no not swine 'flu~ it is far more serious than that. I've got Reader's Bl...

I've just spent a wonderful weekend wallowing in book related nostalgia. On Friday the postman delivered a packet containing four books ...

Roman Mysteries - Caroline Lawrence Way back in 2001 I read a book called The Thieves of Ostia , the first book in the Roman Mysteries serie...

City-lit London ed. Heather Reyes I love to travel and visit new places, often before I go somewhere new I'll try to read at least one b...

The Midnight Charter - David Whitley This is an ambitious debut novel from a very intelligent author. David Whitley was on the wining Univer...

The Garden - Elsie V Aidinoff For some reason that I can't explain I really enjoy reading novels that retell Bible stories but that take...

Saving Rafael - Leslie Wilson The final part of my MA involved writing a 20,000 word dissertation on any topic relating to children's li...

Stolen - Lucy Christopher I've just finished this, one of the most disturbing books I've read in a long time. It is a truly outstand...