Norfolk Bookworm

  Poor Girls by Clare Whitfield (Bloomsbury Books) I had this book marked as a February release and so had been saving it for a New Year rea...

  Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 and some recently read books. While I was poorly I made an effort to read some of the physical books that I ha...

  What you are looking for is in the library by Michiko Aoyama, translated by Alison Watts (Transworld) Before Christmas I took part in an o...

  The Baby Dragon Cafe by A T Qureshi (Harper Collins) Having been felled by a cold that morphed into a chest and sinus infection over the p...

  The Artist by Lucy Steeds (John Murray Press) Wow - two weeks into 2025 and I am still keeping on top of my vague bookish resolution with ...

  The Life of Herod the Great by Zora Neale Hurston (HQ - Harper Collins) Keeping on top of my vague 2025 plan and reviewing another NetGall...

  Homeseeking by Karissa Chen (Sceptre) Wow! What a start to the 2025 reading year - if it continues like this I am really excited to see wh...

  2024 Reading Round Up. Well another year passes and once more it has been book-filled with a mix of reading for projects and pleasure... w...

  The Secret Christmas Bookshop by Cressida McLaughlin (Harper Collins) A small disclaimer here as I do know the author and have worked with...

  Comet In Moominland by Tove Jannson /Translated by Elizabeth Portch (Puffin Books) Over the weekend I got in to a discussion about the Moo...

  Florence: Ordeal by Water by Kathrine Kressman Taylor (Manderley Press) Until I read Still Life  by Sarah Winman a few years ago I'd n...

  A monthly challenge that I can get behind! I keep setting myself laudable reading goals/challenges and then failing miserably to keep to t...

  Come From Away - Norwich Theatre Royal. Back before the pandemic I used to go to the theatre an awful lot - which was great from both a cu...

  Budget busting! I'm guessing that regular readers of the blog will realise that I am a voracious and omnivorous reader with a serious ...

  There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak (Penguin Books) I'm known in family circles for being someone who swallows books whole  - I...

  Edith Holler by Edward Carey (Gallic Books) I couldn't resist this book when Gallic Books were offering advance copies to reviewers, a...

  Turtle Moon by Hannah Gold, illustrated by Levi Pinfold (HarperCollins) I think that it was Kentishbookboy who introduced me to Hannah Gol...

  A week away After the dodgy summer that we've had Mr Norfolkbookworm and I decided that we needed a week away doing nothing except eat...

  Books that have stayed with me. As previously mentioned on Social Media I took part in a challenge to list a book that had stayed with me ...

  Books that have stayed with me. As previously mentioned on Social Media I took part in a challenge to list a book that had stayed with me ...