Norfolk Bookworm

The Elephantom, New London Theatre, London. July 2014. The best thing about being an auntie (apart from the cuddles) is being able to s...

Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr It seems appropriate for two reasons to be reading the biography of Sally ...

The Spy Who Changed the World by Mike Rossiter Book supplied through the Bookbridgr.com programme. A good non fiction book can read li...

The King's Peach, The Blakeney Players, Blakeney. July 2014. As ever this review comes with the caveat that it cannot be impartial ...

Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach Since coming back from holiday I've been reading quite a lot of travel writing, perhaps in ...

I have a terrible confession. Just lately I've had terrible trouble finishing a book. I've started loads and they've genera...

In June, while I was away, I started noticing lots of tweets going around all tagged #BookadayUK. When we got home, and I'd recovered ...

Last Days of Troy, Shakespeare's Globe, London. June 2014. New writing at the Globe has a real hit and miss reputation, however Mr ...

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...