Norfolk Bookworm

Dystopian / post-apocalyptic fiction for teenagers Looking around the shelves in libraries and bookshops the shelves in the teen areas ...

Threepenny Opera, Oliver Theatre, National Theatre, London. June 2016. This was a show that has been on my horizon for a while as surpr...

Spring of 2016 has not been great for me in some ways as I've not been too well a couple of time, and this has meant that I've act...

One advantage of working in the book world, libraries or retail, is the chance to read books in advance of publication. Through the genero...

Shakespeare 400 celebrations at the library. Along with much of the country the library where I work has been marking the 400th anniver...

Symphonic Queen, Royal Albert Hall, London. May 2016. The music of Queen has been important in our family for as long as I can recall. ...

X The Play, Royal Court, London. April 2016. I really don't know where to start with this play, and I think that the fault is with ...

Lawrence After Arabia, Hampstead Theatre, London. April 2016. On a lovely sunny, if not warm, evening Rebecca and I went out to Hampste...

I’m struggling with reading again at the moment.  I’ve just submitted my MA Dissertation* and I have free time to read without worrying I...

My friend the Upstartwren has got me thinking again as she blogged recently about books and mental health. I found myself nodding along...

Space Lectures' Spring 2016 Event: General Tom Stafford. Months and months ago the brilliant Space Lectures team in Pontefract anno...

Graphic Novels / Travel Writing from Guy Delisle While I am renowned for reading anything and everything (cereal packets if there are n...

Cymbeline, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe, London. March 2013. This was my final trip to this season at the Sam Wanam...

The Tempest, Sam Wanamaker Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe, London. March 2016. After seeing such a good production of this in the ma...

Spring Break! Mr Norfolkbookworm and I are just back from a week away in the sun. We both needed a break and the intention was to sit a...

King Charles III, Theatre Royal Norwich, Norwich. March 2016. A busy ten days of plays finished with another trip to my local theatre t...

The Winter's Tale, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakesepeare's Globe, London. March 2016. After last autumn's less than brilli...

Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty, Theatre Royal, Norwich. March 2016. Talking about this production is hard, it isn't that I di...

The Lion King, Lyceum Theatre, London. March 2016. Many years ago my sister and I saw this but at the time all we could manage were sea...

Hangmen, from the Wyndhams Theatre, National Theatre Live at Cinema City. This was a play that had been on my radar for a while but one...