Book Club Reviews

The Norwich Society Book Club meets monthly from October to May and discusses pre-selected books and related topics about Norfolk and Norwich's history. 

The Club meets on Mondays at 2.00pm in the upstairs bar at the Theatre Royal, Theatre Street Norwich NR2 1RL

New members are always welcome. For further information please email Kala Nobbs at kalanobbs@btinternet.com 

Dates and books subject to change.

2026

Oct 19th The Rings of Saturn. Sebald.

Nov 23rd The Normans in East Anglia-

The Normans in Norfolk by Sue Margeson

The Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror's Subjugation of England by Teresa Cole 2016 (942.021)

2027

January 11th Catholicism in Norfolk. Walsingham: Pilgrims and Pilgrimage. Michael Rear

Feb 22nd Thomas Paine . Tom Paine: A Political Life. John Keane

April 12th  From Crow Scaring to Westminster about George Edwards, Norfolk’s First Labour MP and founder of one of the first farm worker’s Trade Unions.

Supplemented by Rabbit Skin Cap/I Walked by Night. Editor - Lilias Rider-Haggard

May 17th Blythe Spirit. Ian Collin’s biography of Ronald Blythe.

Could be supplemented by The Time By The Sea which is Blythe’s own account of time spent in Aldeburgh alongside Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears.