FBF Team

Hello booklovers, Our 2020 online programme is packed this year! So far in our spotlight series, we’ve brought you the delights of fiction, thrillers, crime fiction and local writing. Today we are celebrating non-fiction. It is often an extremely underrated genre,  pushed aside to the memories of dusty textbooks in the corners of classrooms. Communicating […]

Hello booklovers, At this year’s online festival we are very pleased to be offering you a varied programme. So far in our spotlight series we have celebrated Thrillers, Crime and Fiction – this time we are propelling our literary gaze to local writing. Our own sleepy county has been the muse of many texts, fictional […]

Hello booklovers, This chapter in our spotlight series takes us into the world of Fiction. Defined as ‘literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people’, fiction is such an essential tool in allowing readers to imagine the lives, experience, thoughts and emotions of others. Right now, when life is […]

Hello booklovers, As part of the build up to our 2020 festival we are treating you to a series of blog posts pointing the spotlight at the variety of genres and authors who are part of our online events this year. This time we turn to the Thrillers, with help from festival guests Paul French […]

Hello booklovers, As you know, the 2020 Felixstowe Book Festival will be taking place entirely online. We will be broadcasting six live interview videos with various authors which will be available to watch through our Facebook page and through our website. These are called Live Stream Videos. It’s a brave new world of cultural events […]

Hello booklovers, Today we bring you the first of our spotlight series, festival blog posts focussing on the range of genres and authors that we are bringing to you as part of this year’s festival. Today we start with Crime Fiction and our festival guest Harriet Tyce. Crime is such an immersive and intriguing genre. […]