Norfolk Bookworm

What I did in the summer of 2018 Inspired by my nephew writing all about his summer holiday at school I thought it would be interesting ...

The Goth Girl Series by Chris Riddell Just over a week ago I was lucky enough to be working an event with the former Children's Lau...

Oooops - another long gap in posts to the blog, but again for good reasons I think... We've been visiting family over the summer wee...

Holiday Reading As promised here's the (short for me) list of books I read on holiday, and some brief thoughts about them.  Six were...

Ooops - a month has passed very quickly, I really didn't intend for that much time to go past without a blog post. Mr Norfolk...

The Century Girls by Tessa Dunlop 1918 was a momentous year in so many ways - the end of World War One, the partial granting of the vot...

Auggie and Me by R.J. Palacio Back in November I read Wonder  by R.J. Palacio and loved it, even though it made me cry lots. I still h...

The Wildlife Trusts have an initiative every June called 30 Days Wild - this encourages people to get out and about connecting with the na...

Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy by Anne Boyd Rioux Little Women  (and the three follow up novels) have long been some of my favourite reads - I'...

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...