Norfolk Bookworm

The Habit of Art, National Theatre Live (Encore), Cinema City, Norwich. November 2013. After seeing a few plays by Alan Bennett, and al...

Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, Theatre Royal, Norwich. November 2013. Last year I tried opera for the first time and found that, at le...

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth - Chris Hadfield I think that regular readers of my thoughts will realise that I have three m...

Mojo, Harold Pinter Theatre, London 2013. I've been delaying writing this theatre visit up as even a few weeks on I am not sure ho...

Edward II, Oliver Stage, National Theatre, London. October 2013. So much for not having so much time to blog - well I suppose I am read...

The Cambridge Greek Play 2013, Arts Theatre, Cambridge. October 2013. Three years ago a friend told us about a version of Agamemnon that...

Meeting Captain Alan Bean, astronaut (retd) This past weekend I was in the presence of a truly great and inspirational man. Thanks to t...

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's Globe, London. October 2013. I was beginning to think that I was never going to see th...

I'm hoping that this won't be the case but there is the chance that postings on here may become fewer and may just be limited to the...

Stoner by John Williams Rediscovered classics are a weakness of mine and over the summer everyone seemed to be tweeting about Stoner and...

Wars of the Roses: Stormbird by Conn Iggulden Earlier in the year I had my mad but thoroughly enjoyable day at The Globe watching the t...

Longbourn by Jo Baker Here comes a big confession from a bookworm who has worked in the book trade for fifteen years - I've never r...

Mr Norfolkbookworm and I have just come back from 2 glorious weeks in Crete. We did a little sightseeing and a lot of relaxing, eating and...

The President's Hat by Antoine Laurain My friend and colleague Jon (who blogs here ) recommended this book to me recently and when ...

Over the past few months there have been loads of advance copies on the download Net Galley service.  I've been approved for lots of t...

Lots of the books I've been reading and enjoying lately have come from very small, independent publishing houses and a lot of them hav...

Blue Stockings, The Globe Theatre, London. August 2013. I'd given up hope of seeing this play as it had so few performances and eve...

War Horse,New London Theatre, London. August 2013 There are some plays that are so good that seeing them multiple times is a treat and ...

Wake by Anna Hope Twitter can be a source of many things but for me this week it was the cause of a late night and tears.  Not because ...

Barnum, Theatre in the Park, Chichester. August 2013. Mr Norfolkbookworm and I had a new companion for our outing to Chichester this pa...