Norfolk Bookworm

War Horse (National Theatre Live: Cinema City) New London Theatre, March 2014. Regular readers of the blog will know that this is one o...

London and Stratford-upon-Avon It is coming around to essay time again and this term we can't just rely on books so I've spent ...

Book Review: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simison I've been spending a lot of time on trains just lately and this is great (as long ...

Book Review: How to be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis This book nearly passed me by, but thanks to a tweet pointing me towards an excerpt ...

The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London. March 2014. The last play of the weekend was at the beautiful Sam Wa...

Red Velvet, The Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn, London. March 2014. With surprising ease we managed to cross London, find our hotel and then...

Oh What A Lovely War, Stratford East, London. March 2014. March - the month of madness, well it was this past weekend as Rebecca and I ...

Book Review: The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg. Fannie Flagg wrote the the book that one of my favourit...

Pixar in Concert, Royal Albert Hall, London. February 2014. You know that you've infected your entire family with a theatre bug whe...

King Lear, Olivier Theatre, National Theatre, London. February 2014. This was very much a group outing with Mr Norfolkbookworm joining ...

Eat, Pray Laugh! Barry Humphries' Farewell Tour. Norwich Theatre Royal, February 2014. A cold and damp February night was just the ...

Coriolanus (National Theatre Live: Cinema City), Donmar Warehouse, London. February 2014. This has been the hottest ticket in town and ...

Silent Night by Jack Sheffield. After finishing two essays for my MA I needed some fun, light relief and NetGalley  came to my rescue w...

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...