Norfolk Bookworm

Reading Matters I love the internet, I love the worlds it has opened to me - especially when it comes to finding new things to read. There a...

The winner of the 2010 Waterstone's Children's Book Prize has been announced and I am so happy at the result. Finally books written ...

Holocaust Memorial Day 2010 Blogging about something like Genocide is virtually impossible, but at the same time Holocaust Memorial Day shou...

Antipodean Writing. January 26 th (which it already is there!) is Australia Day and so time to celebrate the wonderful writing that comes ...

It is the season of the book prize again. I am mostly interested in prizes which are aimed at or include children's books although I do ...

So that was 2009. It was a pretty mixed bag of a year both personally and in a reading sense and while it did have some high spots I can...

...is my reading ' mojo ' back. Sometimes it takes a blog post from someone else to highlight a problem, and my friend Sam over at B...

Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years I've been a fan of Adrian Mole since I was a teenager, in theory we don't have a lot in common -I...

Biography. Even the most unobservant blog follower will have noticed that it has been nearly a month since my last post. I've been read...

Sequels (again) I did it again. I read an 'official' sequel to a childhood favourite. Why do I keep doing this to myself? I've l...

Airports are dangerous places, not because they involve huge security and airplanes but because of the bookshops. If you are addicted to rea...

Kisses on a Postcard - Terence Frisby I've read a lot about this book in various places and I've been waiting for my library reserva...

Wishing for Tomorrow - Hilary McKay. I think that gods of reading are conspiring against me at the moment and it isn't a nice feeling. I...

The Girl Who Could Fly - Victoria Forester. My plans to indulge in the Booker Longlist went awry this weekend when I failed to be at home w...

Who Knew? OK so I am as surprised as the next person - working in a library and being surrounded by books all day has actually cut my readin...

Evil? - Timothy Carter This book was delivered earlier this week, and to be honest I had forgotten that I'd ordered it. To celebrate my ...

The Rights of the Reader - Daniel Pennac I've just had three months not working. That has meant three months in which I could read all d...

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...