Norfolk Bookworm

  Cat Step by Alison Irvine (Dead Ink Books) Expanding my reading horizons has always been important to me, whether it is new genres, locati...

  The Becket List by Henry Becket (RedDoor Press) Let's face it 2020 has been a pretty miserable year and anything that can raise a smil...

  The Readers' Room by Antoine Laurain (trans. Aitkins, Boyce & Mackintosh) from Gallic Books I've been a fan of Laurain's b...

  How Should One Read a Book by Virginia Woolf (and also Windsong Summer by Patricia Cecil Hass) I wrote recently about how I was rediscover...

 As the Women Lay Dreaming by Donald S Murray (Saraband) After running a 5 year project during the WW1 Centenary commemorations I've not...

  Earthstar Magic by Ruth Chew (Scholastic) In the UK it has just been National Libraries Week and several threads on social media have been...

  Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes (Pan Macmillan) Regular readers will have hopefully picked up on my love of mythology and Haynes' ...

  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 ...