Norfolk Bookworm

  How can it be February already? The adage about time speeding up as you get older is definitely true and while January did feel like it ha...

  Why that Top 20? Following on from my New Year's Day post of top 20 books for 2023 here's the reasoning behind my top fiction book...

  Why that Top 20? It occurred to me yesterday that it was all well and good letting everyone know what my top reads were but perhaps I shou...

  My year in books. Well it has been an abysmal year for blogging but despite this when I look back at my reading journal I can see that I r...

  Space: The Human Story by Tim Peake (Cornerstone) Regular readers, and people who know me IRL are aware that I am something of a space ner...

  The Dictionary People by Sarah Ogilvie (Chatto & Windus) Earlier in the year I read (and enjoyed) the novels The Dictionary of Lost Wo...

  The Runaway Heiress by Emma Orchard (Allison & Busby) I was very lucky to be offered a chance to read this in advance of publication a...

  Finding Bear by Hannah Gold. Illustrated by Levi Pinfold (Harper Collins) I think that it was Kentishbookboy who first recommended Hannah ...

  The Figurine by Victoria Hislop (Headline) I was very lucky to win an advance copy of this in a Twitter competition and it has to be said ...

  Underneath the Archers by Graham Harvey (Unbound) I think that regular readers of this blog, as well as those who know me on social media/...

  Fair Roasline by Natasha Solomons (Bonnier Books) Being someone who has studied Shakespeare's plays in quite some detail I wasn't ...

  A bit of a gap in blog posts again - and to be honest a bit of a gap in my reading during August, and some of this is because of the new m...

  Disobedient by Elizabeth Freemantle (Michael Joseph) I've just been lucky enough to spend a long weekend in Venice, surrounded by wond...