Norfolk Bookworm

  A Year of Living Simply by Kate Humble (Aster Books, part of Octopus Publishing) 2020 has been a decidedly odd year, horrific wildfires an...

  Dear Reader by Cathy Rentzenbrink (published by Picador) Books about books are a real weakness of mine and this book was a delight to read...

  March (volumes 1-3) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell (published by Top Shelf Productions) Summer 2020 has been marked with many...

  2020 has been an unusual year to say the least but the often good weather and restrictions on travel have had some plus points - Mr Norfol...

  I can't believe that three years have passed since I was picked as a library ambassador for the Women's Prize. Time flies. In 2017...

  Diary of an Apprenticeship - Samantha Cristoforetti (trans. Jill Foulston) August was women in translation month and this book was publish...

  The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories - ed. Jay Rubin (various translators) Apologies for the delay in reviews, I'm still working...

The Cabinet of Calm - Paul Anthony Jones I love learning new words, dialects, local phrases and their etymology and thus I was always g...

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...