Norfolk Bookworm

The Sunrise by Victoria Hislop proof supplied by Headline and the Reading Agency When an email dropped into my work inbox offering me ...

Best to Laugh by Lorna Landvik Electronic proof provided from Netgalley.com I've been a fan of Landvik's writing since a frien...

Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's Globe, London. August 2014. This was a postponed play, Mr Norfolkbookworm and I had booked to s...

Richard III, Trafalgar Studios, London. 2014. In 2012 I saw the amazing Globe Theatre/Mark Rylance Richard III twice and in 2013 I saw...

The Tiger Who Came to Tea, Lyric Theatre, London. August 2014. Attending theatre events aimed at the under ten audience is becoming a r...

Roomies by Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando Supplied by Bookbridgr.com Seeing this book on the Bookbridgr review scheme made me very happ...

Julius Caesar, Shakespeare's Globe, London. August 2014. Another lovely day weather wise and this time spent in the almost outdoors...

As promised/threatened last month I've once more summed up all of my answers to the #BookadayUK questions for July into one place.  Some...

The Virgins by Pamela Erens (book supplied by Bookbridgr.com ) I saw this on the shelf in a bookshop a few months ago and noted it dow...

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...