It is with great sadness that we have to inform you that Mairéad, our Friends coordinator, is no longer with us as she passed away unexpectedly on May 23.  The Felixstowefriends@aol.co.uk email address is therefore currently out of service and any messages to it will not be read. Please direct any communication to Felixstowebookfestival@hotmail.com instead. Mairéad is […]

Calling all David Archer fans! Mr Bentinck won’t be bringing his sister to our festival but Mr Francis Wheen instead. We hope you are all as sad and excited by this news as we are.

STRONG TICKET SALES FOR FELIXSTOWE BOOK FESTIVAL 2018 With a fantastic range of events on offer, festival goers will be inspired by favourite authors at this year’s Felixstowe Book Festival, but with events selling fast, and several already sold out, the festival team is advising fans not to wait to buy tickets – we wouldn’t […]

Now in its sixth year the Felixstowe Book Festival is known as one of the friendliest book festivals. Attracting big names such as Dame Jenni Murray [Stop press – this event has sold out, sorry!], Sir Vince Cable and Damian Le Bas, whose The Stopping Places is current BBC Book of the Week, this hand-picked […]

Our author has had a busy few weeks. First he was interviewed on Radio 4, followed by glowing reviews of his book in the Sunday Times. “His prose is a delight; he breathes life into all he sees” “an ideal writer to disembroil this much misunderstood {Roma} world.” “The prose is pure delight” “To read […]

Best-selling children's author Peter Bunzl is coming to the Felixstowe Book Festival!This animation workshop will give… Posted by Felixstowe Book Festival on Thursday, 7 June 2018

The new regulations require us to ask all you lovely people who currently the receive the newsletter if you are still happy with us keeping the personal information that we hold (your name, email address) and to keep being contacted by us. There will be a piece about this in the next letter but please […]

We are really excited – our line-up gets better and better. Caroline Slocock has joined the ranks of authors with her book ‘People like us – Margaret Thatcher and Me’. Click here to see the event – tickets are available now so get booking!