Norfolk Bookworm

Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls I first read a book by Sally Nicholls back in 2008 when her Ways to Live Forever  was giv...

Ban This Book by Alan Gratz Book censorship is a topic I feel quite strongly about - people should have the freedom to read if a book d...

Fiddler on the Roof, Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester. August 2017 This was what has become our annual treat with Mr Norfolkbook...

Although I don't blog about them as much as I do other things I do go to museum exhibitions reasonably regularly but in the past few w...

Ink, The Almeida Theatre, London. July 2017. Wow - what a play. I am so glad that after a dip in June that the plays I've seen in J...

July was another great month of reading for me, and one where I had lots of time to catch up on requests from Net Galley.  2017 is shaping...

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...