Norfolk Bookworm

I've always been a great believer in the idea that if you are surprising someone with a gift then it should be something you'd lik...

Sally Heathcote: Suffragette by Mary M Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot. This year marks the 100th anniversary of (a limited ...

Book Review: Dear Mrs Bird (review copy provided by Net Galley) This was a book I read quite a while ago, before I fell ill in fact, b...

Book Review  Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson (many thanks to Netgalley for the advance copy of this title) It feels like I'...

Book Review Dear Fahrenheit 451 by Annie Spence I am still struggling with reading narrative fiction, I think it is getting better but...

Two Steps Forward by Graeme Stimison & Anne Buist. Book provided by Bookbridgr. This book caught my eye as soon as I saw it advert...

Book Review All Day at the Movies by Fiona Kidman I recently received an advance copy of this book from Belgravia Books and once more ...

The kindness of Twitter Happily my reading stamina is still increasing following my recent illness (although it has slowed/gone a littl...

Anne Frank  House, Amsterdam The Diary of Anne Frank  has long been an important book to me, I first read it as a young teenager, then ...

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin. This is actually the second new work of fiction I've managed to finish so far this year (I will...

Unlike the weather here in Norfolk at the moment I am definitely starting to feel better. Reading and computer use still aren't the e...

Apologies for the lack of updates into 2018 - I haven't given up on blogging, however the health issues I mentioned in passing at the ...

As is my tradition I've not even looked back at my 2017 reading journal until 2018 has started. 2017 ended up on a bit of low readin...

2017 At the Theatre I was hoping to be trying to pick my favourite shows from a list of 36, but due to unexpected illness I had to miss ...

Call Me By Your Name - Andre Aciman Rebecca introduced me to this book a few years ago and it has become a favourite of mine too. We...

Artemis - Andy Weir I was late to the party with Weir's The Martian  but I loved it when I did get there. It was a gripping romp se...

For a variety of reasons in November I did a lot of rereading, one was to compare book and film (Andre Aciman's Call Me By Your Name )...

Young Marx, The Bridge Theatre, London. November 2017. After a busy week away for me, and a nightmare journey for Rebecca, we were both...

Sunset Boulevard, Birmingham Hippodrome, Birmingham. November 2017. During some recent time in Birmingham (more on this soon) I discove...

Hedda Gabbler, Theatre Royal, Norwich. November 2017. I'd missed this in London at the National Theatre and so was very happy to fi...