Norfolk Bookworm

  The Monkey Who Fell from the Future by Ross Welford (Harper Collins) Synopsis The year is 2425. Centuries after a catastrophic meteor coll...

  A fortnight doing nothing. Mr Norfolkbookworm and I have just spent two glorious weeks in Corfu. We did absolutely nothing except a few ge...

  The Rescue of Ravenwood by Natasha Farrant (Faber and Faber) Synopsis To Bea and Raffy, Ravenwood is home. To Noa, it is a welcome refuge....

  Changing the way we think about the Dutch experiences of World War Two A few years ago I read and reviewed Bart van Es's book The Cut ...

  Four Seasons in Japan by Nick Bradley (Transworld) Back in 2020 one of my friends was raving about a book called The Cat and The City  and...

 Looking back on Covid around the world - sort of. It was inevitable that the Covid pandemic was going to spawn a lot of books, already you ...

  The International Booker Prize and the Dublin Literary Award May seems to be a big month for book awards, several prestigious ones have be...

  Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris (Duckworth Books) I was quite excited by the Women's Prize longlist this year as several books ...

  Brilliant Books by Barrington Stoke I've been quite open here on the blog, and in real life, about the struggles I had with reading a ...

  Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin (Fourth Estate) This book has been longlisted for the 2023 Women’s Prize and while I don’t have time to re...

  SkyWake Invasion by Jamie Russell (Walker Books) Synopsis: Casey Henderson – aka CASEY_FLOW – is obsessed with online team shooter SkyWa...

  A Complicated Matter by Anne Youngson (Doubleday) I am always going to read everything that Youngson writes after the wonderful gift her...

  The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries: Drama and Danger by J T Williams, illustrator Simone Douglas (Harper Collins) Synopsis: Lizzie Sancho and ...

  Oops once more I really didn’t mean to leave a gap of almost 2 months between posts on here. Part of this has been because I’ve been readi...

  S.T.E. A. L.T.H Access Denied by Jason Rohan (Nosy Crow) Synopsis: IT'S JUST ANOTHER ORDINARY DAY, UNTIL IT ISN'T. The kidnap take...

  The Very Merry Murder Club - edited by Serena Patel and Robin Stevens, illustrated by Harry Woodgate (Harper Collins) One of the things Ke...

  One Hundred Saturdays by Michael Frank (Souvenir Press) I'm not sure where I saw the first mention of this book but I was very pleased...

  Caroline: Little House, Revisited by Sarah Miller (HarperLuxe) I've been a fan of the Little House on the Prairie books for pretty muc...

  For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy Upon My Little Pain by Victoria Mackenzie (Bloomsbury Books) 2023 has got off to a strong start and I've...

 2022 - A Year in Books Well I've really dropped the ball on reviewing books over the past few months, ok - for much of 2022! One of my ...