Norfolk Bookworm

Helen Sharman at the Norwich Science Festival, Norwich Cathedral. October 2017. Having had a hint of what a great speaker Helen Sharman...

Fantasia Live in Concert, The Royal Albert Hall, London. October 2017. Delayed gratification appears to be a thing in our family as thi...

It has been a busy month here in the Norfolkbookworm burrow - as well as lots of exciting things happening at work I also took a short bre...

New Scientist Live, ExCeL Centre, London. September 2017. Through being in the right place at the right time I made an unexpected trip ...

La Boheme, The Royal Opera House, London. September 2017 After our wonderful outing to see Madama Butterfly in the spring Mum and I hav...

Our trip to Yellowstone and the other American National Parks has a big effect on me - I don't think that I've ever fallen in love...

A week which has left the Norfolkbookworm grumpy and bewildered. I think that regular readers of this blog (waves at all three of you!...

Boudica, Shakespeare's Globe, London. September 2017. After two shows that I found to be shockingly bad (and another that we didn...

Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar After never having taken part in a blog tour before I now find myself taking part in two in a month!  This ...

Against, Almeida Theatre, London. September 2017. Well a week on and I still don't know what to make of this play. And reading onli...

The Whitstable High Tide Swimming Club by Katie May. I’m really rather excited to be talking about the Whitstable Bay Swimming Club: D...

August saw me reading fewer books that in recent months but this was a for a great reason - Mr Norfolkbookworm and I have been on an Ameri...

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...