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Felixstowe Book Festival 2019

Our 2019 festival was a resounding success thanks to our fabulous speakers and wonderful guests!

Read on for information about the different speakers who took part in the 2019 festival, as well as information about speakers for the children’s events which took place at Felixstowe Library. Enjoy a skim through our rich and varied 2019 festival programme – we hope it will provide you with some literary inspiration!

Maggi Hambling and Nicola Upson – Chapels of War

Prue Leith – The Lost Son

Starting to Write Later in Life – Pamela Homes/ Sorry, sold out

Launch event: Martin Newell and the Hosepipe Band – Mostly Coasts and Ghosts

Containment as creative inspiration – Richard o’Neill

James Runcie – The Road to Grantchester

Writing for Self-Awareness: Amy Dann – sorry, sold out

Martin Lloyd – Passports, Assassins, Traitors and Spies

Lalage Snow – War Gardens

Writing Shadows: Juliet Lockhart

Alan Johnson – In My Life sorry, this event is sold out

Elly Griffiths in conversation with Nicola Upson: Crime Fiction SOLD OUT

Vybarr Cregan-Reid: Primate Change

Duncan Barrett – Hitler’s British Isles Sorry, this event has sold out

Garden Stories

Anita Jones Debska: The Language-Land

Annie and Esther Freud in conversation

Bread Babies

Creative Writing and Performance: Emma Kittle-Pey and Mark Brayley

Madeleine Bunting and Rupert Thomson

Simon Heffer: The Age of Decadence

Polly Clark: Tiger

Lucy Popescu in conversation with Hassan Abdulrazzak – A country to call home

Vintage Tea Party with Mandy Morton – sorry, this event has sold out

National Centre for Writing

Catrina Davies – Homesick: Why I live in a Shed

Felixstowe Ferry Past, Present and Future

Alison Pearson in conservation with Caroline Slocock

Guy Fraser-Sampson and John Nightingale – An evening of Crime

Fizz, Fiction and Facts: Olivia Beirne, Daisy Buchanan, Beth O’Leary

The publishing industry – how to get published, attract an agent, attract an editor with Phoebe Morgan

Poetry and Puppetry Making by the Sea

Matt Gaw – The Pull of the River: A Journey into the Wild and Watery Heart of Britain

Nicci Gerrard: What Dementia Teaches us About Love – with Julia Jones

Barbara Erskine – The Ghost Tree

The Kindertransport Story

Jane Thynne – Clara Vine: Life of women in the Third Reich

Beach Stories

Liz Trenow – The Dressmaker of Draper’s Lane

Dr. Andrew Monaghan – Dealing with the Russians

How to Begin – Simon Sweetman

Nature Writing Workshop: Matt Gaw – Sorry, this event has sold out

Georgina Harding in conversation with Lucy Hughes-Hallett

James Hayes – Shouting in the Evenings

Poetry and Puppetry Making by the Sea

Meet Felixstowe Scribblers and Orwell Writers’ League (OWL)

Zeba Talkhani – My Past is a Foreign Country

Alison Weir – Anna of Kleve: Queen of Secrets

Joan Smith – Home Grown

St Paul’s and the Shard: creating poems from old an new – Alexandra Davis

Emma Healey – Whistle in the Dark

Jonathan Coe – Middle England – in conversation with Esther Freud

Children’s Events 2019

Beach Combing – Kate Osborne/ Beach Bonkers

Story Walk in the Woods

Felixstowe.docs: A presentation of young people’s writing project with Hayley Long

Pirate Stories at the Fort

Hotel Flamingo Drawalong with Alex Milway

From Tots to Teens – Panel with G. McClure, P. Goodhart and R. Hayes

Potkin and Stubbs: Creeps, Crimes and Comedy

Sutton Hoo Roadshow

Operation Buried Treasure with Ally Sherrick

Calling Mission Control!

Let’s write Funny with Ruth Fitzgerald

The Funny Life of James Campbell

A lot of fun was had by all – we can’t wait for the 2020 festival!

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