Norfolk Bookworm

Exactly 150 years ago today (June 30th 1864) President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill creating the Yosemite Grant. This was the first insta...

A Bunch of Amateurs, The Watermill Theatre, Bagnor (Newbury). May 2014. After taking Mr Norfolkbookworm's aunt to Chichester last y...

Considering the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014. For the past few years I've been reading a lot of literature in translation...

A day at Booktrust. Recently I was very honoured to be asked by Booktrust to join them for a day and work with them to select books tha...

The Silver Tassie. Lyttleton Theatre at the National Theatre, London. May 2014. After having a disappointing time at The View From the ...

A View From the Bridge, The Young Vic, London. May 2014. This play has been received wall to wall rave reviews everywhere  - unusually ...

Another Country, The Trafalgar Studios, London. May 2014. It has been an incredible little while for me in May and I've packed a lo...

Norwich Film Festival. Odeon Cinema, Norwich. May 2014. After our recent trip to Sundance London we had another chance to see films as ...

Titus Andronicus. Shakespeare's Globe, London. April 2014. This was always a play I was nervous about seeing - it was a set text in...

The Vikings at the British Museum, April 2014. I'd like to think that we found this exhibition underwhelming because we were tired ...

Sundance London Film Festival. O2 at Greenwich. April 2014. Mr Norfolkbookworm is much more of a film and cinema person than I am but a...

Book review: My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff Electronic proof from Netgalley.com. UK publication date 5th June 2014 . A few years ag...

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue recording, Theatre Royal Norwich. April 2014. Radio comedy often beats that on the television hands d...

Book Review: The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E Smith. After being a little underwhelmed by my last Bookbridgr book I'm plea...

An afternoon with an astronaut. In better weather than last autumn Mr Norfolkbookworm and I once more made the cross country trip to Po...

The Malcontent. The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London. April 2014. The Malcontent  is almost an experiment by the SWP/Globe as it is perf...

We Will Rock You. The Dominion Theatre, London. April 2014. Some of my earliest musical memories are of Queen songs and they are a band...

Blithe Spirit. Gielgud Theatre, London. April 2014. I was joined by an old friend, Jo, for this play - she is another person that indul...

Cats. Theatre Royal Norwich. April 2014. Although my love of theatre did start a while ago with musicals (a trip to see Les Miserables ...

Book review: The Crimson Ribbon by Katherine Clements Supplied through the Bookbridgr.com scheme. Although book reviews have been fea...