Norfolk Bookworm

Books, books everywhere Now that I am reading more again (although still nowhere near pre December 2017 levels) I am taking on more read...

The Cut Out Girl by Bart Van Es As soon as I saw this book on the Costa Longlist I knew that I'd want to read it and finally it has...

Oops. I really didn’t intend to leave it so long into 2019 before posting, I have been reading somethings but real life has got in the w...

So that was 2018! What a year it has been, I ended 2017 in pretty bad health and by the end of January discovered that this was because...

What with our recent trip to Belgium, my work over the last 4 years on the Norfolkinworldwar1 website and the recent poppy project along w...

I am still here but it has been a month of a lot of ups and downs, and as seems to be the case post brain hemorrhage the thing that now se...

Little by Edward Carey A micro review for a 'Little' book. I received a copy of this book in proof form and it arrived in my ha...

Oh dear another large gap between posts. I am a terrible blogger right now. I do have three good reasons (I refuse to call them excuses)...

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...