Norfolk Bookworm

Longterm blog readers will recall that pre pandemic Mr Norfolkbookworm and I often have a winter holiday around now and spend a week somewhe...

  A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe (Faber) I'd seen and heard this book being talked about a lot at the start of the year and eac...

  The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray (Penguin Random House) This was a book I got for Christmas afte...

  The Betrayal of Anne Frank by Rosemary Sullivan (Harper Collins) Long term followers of my reviews know that books about the Holocaust fea...

  I, Mona Lisa by Natasha Solomons (Cornerstone) I love books with interesting narrators and as this one is told from the point of view of t...

  Maman, What Are We Called Now? by Jacqueline Mesnil-Amar, trans. Francine Yorke (Persephone Books) This volume from Persephone Press has b...

  Jane's Country Year by Malcolm Saville (Handheld Press) This book was on my extensive book wish list and seeing a friend talking about...

  The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley (Bloomsbury Publishing) A very dear friend recommended this book to me and I was more nervous than usual in...

  Top Kidlit & YA books read in 2021 Despite everything that was thrown at us all in 2021 Kentishbookboy and I have continued to share b...

  Top Non-Fiction read in 2021 As the New Year Bank Holiday is three days long this year I feel fully justified in spreading my 'best of...

  Top 10 fiction novels read in 2021 Looking back on my reading diary for 2021 I had a better year of books than I first thought, and indeed...

Micro Review Goals I am hoping to get to 50 Micro Reviews by the end of the year but what with Christmas preparations, reading projects and ...

  The Edelweiss Pirates by Dirk Reinhardt, trans. Rachel Ward (Pushkin Press) There are lots of books, fiction and non, about WW2 resistance...

  Minarets in the Mountains by Tharik Hussain (Bradt Publishing) I'm always on the lookout for new books to try and this one really stoo...

  Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers by Mary Wellesley (Quercus Publishing) Our recent trip to Winchester and the chanc...

  Without really meaning to I appear to be bang on trend in 2021 as November has been renamed Non Fiction November by the Federation of Chil...

  Amarantha by E.R.Traina (trans. Marinella Mezzanotte) published by Kurumuru Books I am very lucky to have a lot of talented friends who wr...

  Once There Was a Bear by Jane Riordan (Farshore) Most people who know me in real life know that I am a real Tigger fan, and that Mr Norfol...

  Still Life by Sarah Winman (Fourth Estate) This book has been on my radar for quite some time, the pre-publicity led to me adding it to my...

  The Writer's Cats by Muriel Barbery. Ilus. Maria Guitart & trans. Alison Anderson (Gallic Books) Gifted copy Following on from my ...