Norfolk Bookworm

One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson That Fateful Year: 1914 by Mark Bostridge It is no secret that I like to read non-fiction, in f...

The Duchess of Malfi, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London. January 2014 I've been excited about this play for a long time, and even mor...

A Christmas Package, The Blakeney Players, Blakeney. January 2014. As ever this review cannot be totally impartial as I do know one of ...

Versions on a theme. 2014 has started in a novel fashion for me - one that has involved no novels in fact.  I had two essays due in the...

Top Titles In 2013 my reading slowed down towards the end of the year as my studies started, sure I am still reading but now it is a lot o...

Favourites from 2013 A bumper year for theatre visits this year as I saw 34 productions live plus a handful of 'as lives' in th...

The Snowman, Peacock Theatre, London. December 2013. My love of theatre is possible spreading too far as on this outing I was accompani...

Richard II, RSC at The Barbican, London. December 2013. This play is one of the ones that I've looked at in a little bit of detail ...

The Georgians Revealed, The British Library, London. December 2013. A recent training day at the British Library has become one of my w...

Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Norwich Theatre Royal. November 2013. Another great London production on tour in Norwich and this one ca...

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...