Norfolk Bookworm

I'm not a fan of the crime novel, in fact the closest I've really come to the genre is the Roman Mysteries series by Caroline Lawren...

I think that is is clear that I like reading. In fact my worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere without a book. Even thinking about it can...

As I said in an earlier post I did a lot of reading on my holiday, some books were better than others but I don't actually regret the t...

The 2010 Branford Boase Award was announced last night. I was in three minds about this as two of my top books from last year appeared on ...

I’m making headway into my giant to read piles. Some of them I put aside for holiday and that instantly lessened the guilt I was feeling. ...

I've been looking forward to today for ages. I am venturing out of Norwich and down to London for the afternoon and evening and it is g...

Well the title is slightly misleading, but once more I am in a reading dilemma. Through many and varied (and gratefully received) sources I ...

Wow - I really can't believe that I've had a blog for a whole year. It has been a busy year, lots of travel, lots of reading and a n...

One of the projects that I started through work was an International Literature Group. Over the past 5 months a small group of us have atten...

I've had lots of books reserved at the library and typically it seems that all of them have become available at once. Luckily the housew...

Oh dear, it has been over a month since my last post and the lack of updates really haven't been because I haven't been reading. In ...

A Rose for the ANZAC Boys I've just finished this book in pretty much one sitting and it has me an emotional wreck. It starts in modern ...

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...