Hello booklovers, Still feeling deflated post-festival weekend? How about a little reminder of the brilliant set of volunteers who make the whole event possible… We pride ourselves in being a volunteer led festival. Everything – from being involved in the main committee, to taking tickets on the door or selling them to our visitors, to […]

Hello booklovers! I think it is safe to say that the Felixstowe Book Festival 2018 was a barn-storming success! Our multiple stages have been graced with fascinating members of the literary community and we are hugely grateful to them all. We are also so very lucky with our wonderful guests – a huge thank you […]

Hello booklovers, Only one sleep left until the Felixstowe Book Festival weekend 2018! After months of preparations, it is almost here – I hope you are all ready for a weekend packed out with literary delights. It has been a pleasure over the past week being reunited with returning festival guests, including Mandy Morton, Liz […]

Hello booklovers! Would I be terribly British in saying that I am just a little bit too hot and am praying for some rain soon? Probably, but with good reason! As glorious as the weather has been recently, it is not so fun when you are crammed into the office and stuck in traffic all the way […]

Hello booklovers, Tuesday is almost behind us, we’re almost half way through the week. Only one more sleep until our first festival event – how the time has flown! As part of our Returning guests and festival favourites series, I am delighted to be featuring guests who are returning to the Felixstowe Book Festival in the […]

Hello booklovers, Happy Monday! It is now a matter of days until our first event of the 2018 Felixstowe Book Festival: we can’t wait to chat with Amanda Craig and Salley Vickers on Wednesday! This week we are treating you to some nuggets of information about some of our returning festival favourites, as well as […]

Hello booklovers! The excitement is palpable, the festival is nearly here! This time next week we will be in full swing! Have you booked your tickets yet? Check out our final ticket details via this link: https://felixstowebookfestival.co.uk/5107/secure-your-tickets-now  We are extremely lucky at the Felixstowe Book Festival to have a very loyal set of festival visitors, volunteers […]

Hello booklovers! A very happy Friday to you all. As you can see, our theme for this week’s blog is Father’s Day. Throughout literature, fathers are portrayed in starkly differing ways. We have the witty Mr Bennet, or the paradigm of humanity that is Atticus Finch, not to mention the foolish King Lear and the mysterious Lord […]

Hello booklovers! I hope this week has seen you well. Hopefully the contents of this post will improve things a little further! We have Amanda Craig and Salley Vickers coming to the festival this year. Sally will discuss her new novel ‘The Librarian’. Author of a number of other wonderful pieces of literature, including ‘Dancing […]