Norfolk Bookworm

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John le Carre This is one from the list that I had been looking forward to reading. Thrillers and spies...

I've been quite open and honest about my enthusiasm for the whole eReader phenomenon and the experience of reading on either an iPhone o...

The World's Wife - Carol Ann Duffy I approached this second poetry volume on the list with not quite as much trepidation as the first an...

Toast - Nigel Slater Thanks to the adaptation of this book being shown on UK television over the Christmas period there was a huge waiting l...

Another confession here. This was a book of which I barely even knew the plot before I started it. Oh and I only thought I should read it ...

New Selected Poems 1966-1987 - Seamus Heaney This is one of the books I was dreading reading for the challenge. I never read poetry through ...

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark It has been a week since I finished reading this and I am still not sure what I thought of it....

Stuart a life backwards - Alexander Masters This is a book that I've been aware of for a very long time, but probably would never have r...

My self set challenge to read all of the 25 books chosen for World Book Night before March 5 th is going well, and even if the books aren...

One Day - David Nicholls A lot of people I know are either reading this, or have just finished it and that did influence my choice to read i...

I am a couple of days late posting this because I wanted to finish the books that I was reading just in case they became contenders for that...

Alan Bennett - A Life Like Other People's This wasn't the first book from the 25 that I intended to read, but when I got to work yes...

Ever since I started working in the book trade, far too many years ago to count, I have been a fan of World Book Day. I thought it was odd ...

I love reading books in letter or diary form. I'm far too dull and lazy to keep my own diary but the format is one that I adore in lite...

I've always loved being read to. I know that my parents read me bedtime stories long after I could read for myself, the books that reall...

...and no I'm not blonde! I've not been well over the past 10 days or so and I've not simply lost my reading mojo, I've actu...

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

I have to confess that I haven't been reading a lot of fiction recently. I recently dusted off my camera and have been forcing Mr Bookwo...

I've just been to the cinema to see Stephen Fry Live, sort of. He was performing at the Festival Hall and it was beamed into provincial ...

Meme. Mt friend Sam over at Books, Time and Silence posted this meme which he had found at Booking Through Thursday and I couldn't res...