Norfolk Bookworm

Challenging my world views I love reading books that are set in locations that I've never visited (and probably will never visit) w...

Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus by Sandi Toksvig As a fan of both Toksvig's earlier books ...

Redshank's Warning by Malcolm Saville I used to be an avid collector of children's books from the 1920s/30s/40s but in recent y...

I Believe in Unicorns - Michael Morpurgo I love many of Michael Morpurgo's books - if you read too many in a row then they can becom...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Longer chapters made keeping apace on reading this book a little more challenging than our recent ...

Time for me to post a confession - please don't think that the slow down in book related posts has anything to do with the Kentishbook...

The Boy in the Dress by David Walliams I know that it is a really obvious thing to say but making sure you read three chapters a night ...

The Umbrella Mouse by Anna Fargher This was the first book that the Norfolkbookworm and the Kentishbookboy read simultaneously. For me ...

Matilda by Roald Dahl The postman brought me a wonderful envelope this morning - a note from my nephew, his chosen nickname for these p...

Matthew Bourne's Romeo+Juliet It has been a while since I've posted about the theatre on the blog, I haven't given up going...

Sharing books as a family. While I use the nickname Norfolkbookworm a lot it seems that I've managed to share this love of the writ...

The Wainwright Book Prize 2019 Over the past 18 months we've been spending a lot more time outside walking and nature watching. At ...

I had no idea that it was nearly 2 months since my last update - it has been a busy time but I think that I blame the heat/humidity since ...

...well to be honest at the moment I seem to have more of a fiction reader's block rather than a full on block. I don't seem to ...

Since early 2018, when I started to recover from the brain hemorrhage, Mr Norfolkbookworm and I have spent a lot of time outdoors whenever...

Katy by Jacqueline Wilson and Becoming Jo by Sophie McKenzie Classic children's books have long been a passion of mine, and to th...

My reading has become a little disorganised of late for three main reasons: a lot of my non fiction reservations arrived in one go at the ...

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...