Norfolk Bookworm

  "What To Look For in..." text E.L. Grant Watson , Illustrator C. F. Tunnicliffe. Ladybird Nature Books own books My interest in ...

  Skylarks with Rosie by Stephen Moss (Saraband Books) Own copy I feel a bit bad for this book and my response to it, if I hadn't read a...

  The Circling Sky by Neil Ansell (Tinder Press) Library book Unlike some of the other books this was a book with a set location and charts ...

  Into the Tangled Bank by Lev Parikian (Elliot & Thompson) Library eBook This was my out and out favourite book from the long list and ...

  The Stubborn Light of Things by Melissa Harrison (Faber & Faber) NetGalley This was another book that I'd read before the Wainwrig...

  Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald (Jonathan Cape) NetGalley I was lucky enough to have the chance to read this back in July 2020 thanks to...

  The shortlist for the 2021 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing was announced on the 4th August and I did manage to read all of the long li...

  The Book  Lover's Bucket List by Caroline Taggart (British Library Publishing) Library book This book for me is a cautionary tale in r...

  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...