Norfolk Bookworm

  Subpar Parks by Amber Share (Plume Publishing, USA) Social media is often seen as a negative place but just occasionally there are real po...

  Presentation is everything At the weekend I was lucky enough to receive an advance copy of A Single Rose by Muriel Barbery, trans. Aliso...

  The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, trans. Philip Boehm. (Pushkin Press) How to talk about this book? Set in November 1938 in the...

  The Wainwright Prize for UK Nature writing In the past I have been part of 'official' book prize shadowing projects for what was t...

  Darwin's Dragons by Lindsay Galvin (Chicken House Ltd.) Copy loaned to me by the KentishBookBoy As predicted last year when my nephew ...

  How To Be Brave by Daisy May Johnson (Pushkin Press) electronic proof provided by NetGalley and Pushkin Today is my stop on the blog tour ...

  Down the rabbit hole thanks to Norfolk Library and Information Service I’ve become very meta at present and many of the books I’ve been re...

  Short Stories and Essays Working from home for the last umpteen months has had a surprisingly good effect on my work/life balance. When I ...

  The annual 30 Days Wild initiative from the Wildlife Trusts has become a real highlight of my year, and while this past year has seen us g...

  The Consolation of Nature by Michael McCarthy, Jeremy Mynott and Peter Marren (Hodder Studios) Library book Nature writing books have beco...

  Panenka by Ronan Hession (Blue Moose Books) Own copy One of my surprise hit books from last year was Hession's first book Leonard and ...

  The Swallows' Flight by Hilary McKay (Macmillan Children's Books) Net Galley eProof Back in 2018, when my reading stamina was at i...

  Ariadne by Jennifer Saint (Wildfire Books) eProof I've long loved tales from Ancient Greece, I think that my love stems right back to ...

  Arctic Star by Tom Palmer (Barrington Stoke) own copy It doesn't seem that long since I was raving about Tom Palmer's last book,...

  Quarantine Comix by Rachael Smith (Icon Books) eProof from Net Galle y I am sure that in the next few years there will be a plethora of bo...

  Civilisations by Laurent Binet. trans. Sam Taylor (Harvill Secker) eProof from Net Galley I have to thank the radio 4 programme Start the ...

  Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Cornerstone) electronic proof I was surprised to realise that it it was three years since I read and revie...

  Love in Five Acts by Daniela Krien (trans. Jamie Bulloch) Quercus Books  (@QuercusBooks & @MacLeHosePress) (eProof via NetGalley) Book...

  Unexpected gifts Recently the postman has delivered three books that I wasn't expecting and it turned out that two friends had seen/re...

  Wishing all readers a very happy World Book Night 2021 - here's hoping you all find something new to read and love, it isn't often...