Norfolk Bookworm

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Palace Theatre, London. June 2017. This won't be a review - even after a year (and with the scri...

An Afternoon with retired astronaut Michael Foale. While Tim Peake might be the first British astronaut but the first British-born male...

Twelfth Night, Shakespeare's Globe, London. June 2017. After last month's trip to the Globe to see Romeo and Juliet  it probabl...

The Play that Goes Wrong, Theatre Royal Norwich, June 2017. I never really thought that farce was for me, slapstick films don't rea...

Women's Prize for Fiction ceremony and final thoughts. Last night I was lucky enough to be invited to the prize ceremony for the 201...

It is no good - even after a week I still can't pick which book is my favourite. I am torn between Do Not Say We Have Nothing and S...

May seems like it has been full of Bailey's Prize books, I may have only had five left to read but I've been writing about them he...

Monty Python's Spamalot, Norwich Playhouse, Norwich. May 2017. Although slightly too young to remember Monty Python from the origin...

The Dark Circle by Linda Grant. My reading order of the six Bailey's Prize books has been totally random - it really was just the w...

Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo I started this book with the assumption that I wasn't going to find it a top read.  It is set in Ni...

Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's Globe, London. May 2017. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. From the sublime The Ferryman  in the afternoon...

The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan This thick tome was the fourth book I pulled out of my box and is possibly the one I approached with ...

The Ferryman, Royal Court, London. May 2017. A few year's ago Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem  was the big 'thing' in Londo...

First Love but Gwendoline Riley. The third book I picked out of my book prize box was First Love  and my initial impression was how min...

Nell Gwynn, Shakespeare's Globe, London. May 2016. I am so pleased that this has come back to the Globe. In 2015, when it first pla...

The Power by Naomi Alderman Next out of my Bailey's Prize box came The Power  by Naomi Alderman and I didn't have such a great r...

After the great reading month that March gave me I didn't find April to be so good for the main part - although becoming a Bailey'...

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. ...