Norfolk Bookworm

Persephone Press I love the books produced by the Persephone Press, at first glance they may seem to be dull and all the same but once ...

Umbrella Mouse to the Rescue - Anna Fargher Originally due to be published in April I've had an advance copy of this book sitting o...

Difficult Women by Helen Lewis Subtitled A History of Feminism in 11 Fights  I found this book to be fascinating. Lewis manages to tell the ...

One More Croissant for the Road by Felicity Cloake Despite having over flowing bookshelves and a Kindle full of unread books I still found m...

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa (trans. Philip Gabriel) This is a whimsical tale of one man and his cat, mostly told from the ...

The Cat and the City by Nick Bradley   Cats in Japanese fiction do seem to be a thing and during lockdown I have read two of the genre. This...

Mudlarking by Lara Maiklem Since the whole Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak started the one thing I have discovered about myself is that wate...

Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession I think that I saw some chat on Twitter about this book and I was intrigued enough to see if it was...

Both the Kentishbookboy and I have lost our reading mojo a little bit right now - partly because of the Coronavirus changing so much of d...

The Ratline by Philippe Sands Back in 2016 I was blown away by Sands' first book East West Street I reviewed it in the middle of th...

...& Shakespeare's birth/death day I can't believe that it is World Book Night again, it is trite but I can't believe h...

Ooops! Oh dear, the idea of how great the Coronavirus (Covid-19) lockdown will be for catching up on books, films and TV series couldn...

A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond As mentioned in the last post Paddington was Kentishbookboy's final read & review for ...

In which the Kentishbookboy reads on while the Norfolkbookworm flounders! I've seen so many social media posts go through talking a...

War Horse - by Michael Morpurgo This was Kentishbookboy's pick for his bingo chart "set before 1950" and I think he made ...

Book Bingo 2020 Progress With two months of 2020 already gone Kentishbookboy has sent through his book bingo sheet to show me how he'...

A book for every season... I sound a little bit like a broken record as I keep complaining of reader's block - I do remind myself ju...

Random thoughts about books. My reading tastes (as well as being eclectic) seem to swerve from books read well in advance of publicatio...

A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket As I said in my last post I've been reading for various project...

Quick Reads Return Back in 2018 when I was at my poorliest I was kindly gifted some of the wonderful Quick Reads titles (I wrote about ...