Norfolk Bookworm

Don't Call Me Shirley, The Blakeney Players, Blakeney Village Hall, Norfolk. July 2017 It was a  lovely sunny evening as we left th...

These Dividing Walls by Fran Cooper This is a book about one recent summer in Paris, told from the view point of the inhabitants of one...

Angels in America, The Lyttleton Theatre, The National Theatre, London. July 2017. (Millennium Approaches/Perestroika) I'll confe...

The Children of Jocasta by Natalie Haynes. I think my love of Greece and all things Greek shines through on this blog, from reworkings ...

I seem to have read an incredible number of books this month - 29 now I've counted them up - and I guess that this means I've had ...

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...