Norfolk Bookworm

The Last Pilot by Benjamin Johncock Reviewing a book by someone you know, and that you bump into on a frequent basis is actually quite n...

Farinelli and the King, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe, London. February 2015. Liking and admiring Mark Rylance as ...

Edward Scissorhands (ballet), Theatre Royal, Norwich. February 2015. It has been nearly two weeks since I saw this and yet I still find...

Book review: The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain My top book of the year in 2013 was the wonderful President's Hat  and for the pas...

Boeing Boeing. Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich. January 2015. Up until now a mixture of laziness and inability to work out what the day i...

Assassins. The Chocolate Menier Theatre, London. January 2015. After the previous uninspiring theatre trip and a week spent nursing an ...

Taken at Midnight. Theatre Royal Haymarket, London. January 2015. It has been a little while since I saw this, the review is late becau...

Rapunzel...a hairy tale! The Blakeney Players, Blakeney. January 2015. I'm not one for panto as a rule but as ever will make an exc...

Miss Saigon, Prince Edward's Theatre, London. January 2015. Start as you mean to go on I say, and did as my first trip to the theat...

The Snowman (ballet). The Peacock Theatre, London. December 2014. Due to the pressures of Christmas, work and uni deadlines I didn'...

Top fiction and non fiction from 2014. Despite a lot of my reading being for uni during the year I seem to still have managed a lot of ...

That Time of the Year Again In a year where I have seen 36 pieces of theatre live and 4 broadcast as live plays narrowing down to just ...

The monthly book challenge continued though into December in two formats so as everyone gets busy at this time of year I picked the shorter ...

'Tis Pity She's A Whore, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe, London. December 2014. It was a very cold and damp...

This wonderful challenge making you think about and talk about books continued into November with the publisher Headline throwing out the ch...

Lord of the Flies (ballet), Theatre Royal, Norwich. November 2014. We'd not been back from our holidays a week before I was off to ...

Holiday Reading. Mr Norfolkbookworm and I have just spent a week in the Canary Islands as we set ourselves up for winter by absorbing s...

Heffers Classics Forum, Cambridge. November 2014. This is the third Classics Forum that we have been to. I blogged about the first back...

Fred Haise (Space Lectures), Pontefract. October 2014. Thanks to the world of Twitter letting me know about Space Lectures we are recen...

The #bookaday challenge continues in to October, with Books Are My Bag taking the reins. This is a campaign about using bookshops so that th...