Norfolk Bookworm

As the days have lengthened and the weather improved we've been spending a lot more time outside in beautiful Norfolk (and Yorkshi...

Personal Reading Challenges. As was proved in 2017 I really suck at reading challenges, even ones I set myself for fun! This year I am...

Vintage 1954 - Antoine Laurain (trans. Jane Aitkin & Emily Boyce) It is hard to say whether I am a bigger fan of Gallic Books or An...

The Flat Share - Beth O'Leary This is a book that really took me by surprise when I read it.  I'm lucky enough to read for se...

Island Song - Madeleine Bunting. I've written on here before about liking books set in the Channel Islands during World War Two and...

I'm not sure why I open every post on my own blog with an apology for not writing more - after all it is my own blog and my progress i...

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...