Norfolk Bookworm

Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien I'm not sure why I picked this one out of the box to read first - perhaps it was the ...

Reading Agency / Baileys Library Ambassador 2017 A long time ago a careers quiz at school suggested that perhaps I should consider work...

There hasn't been too much on at the cinema lately that I've wanted to see but typically just now there are three films all once. ...

Love in Idleness, Menier Chocolate Theatre, London. April 2017. Due to a variety of events I am later reviewing this than normal and it...

Meeting Scott "Scooter" Altman, retired astronaut with Space Lectures, Pontefract. April 2017. Another trip north to meet an a...

Abigail's Party, Theatre Royal, Norwich. March 2017. I've never squirmed so much in a theatre where the play was causing the mo...

March was a good month for reading with me, thanks to that lovely holiday at the start of the month (and then a nasty cold later on) I rea...

Madama Butterfly, Royal Opera House, London. March 2017. It hasn't been that long since I saw the Glyndebourne version of this oper...

Travesties, Apollo Theatre, London. March 2017. After the wonderful performance of Hamlet  in the afternoon there was always a danger t...

Hamlet, Almeida Theatre, London. March 2017. Reading back through this blog it becomes obvious that while I love Shakespeare seeing the...

The Norfolkbookworm Birth Year Reading Challenge  Being 40 later this month it would have been far too easy just to say that my readin...

It has now been almost a year since I finished my MA and have been able to read what every I've wanted. Sure there have been some book...

Mamma Mia! Theatre Royal, Norwich. March 2017. I wrote about seeing this show , with my mum, when we went to New York and in that revie...

A week doing nothing! Mr Norfolkbookworm and I have just spent a week in Tenerife where the only thing on the agenda was relaxing. For m...

Reading Allowed: True Stories & Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library by Chris Paling. This book should be given to everyone ...

February was another book filled month for me and for the first time in a while when I've looked back through my journal I can see tha...

Matthew Bourne's The Red Shoes, Theatre Royal, Norwich. February 2017. As has become clear to regular blog readers I have developed...

Hidden Figures (film and book) Here's something you don't often hear the Norfolkbookworm say - the movie was as good as the boo...

The White Devil, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe, London. February 2017. The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse really is the per...

Finding Black Beauty by Lou Kuenzler After the success of Holly Webb's Return to the Secret Garden  I ventured back in to the work ...