Hello Booklovers, As the temperature outside rises, so does our excitement here at festival HQ! This week we are looking ahead to some of our fabulous poetry events! We hope you enjoy! Get your festival weekend off to a great start by joining the Café Poets for breakfast! They will be sharing their poetry over […]

Hello BookLovers, If there is one thing we are not short of at the Felixstowe Book Festival, it is creative inspiration! Whether you are listening to one of our incredible authors talk about their own work or attending one of our many workshops, there is something here for all writers. Whether you are a novice […]

Hello booklovers! Phew! In preparing for our blog this week we have been gathering up our events with a global theme. We are so excited to tell you about them, we haven’t even unpacked our suitcases yet! Let’s kick off in South America. With the Rio Olympics starting in August, why not sample a flavour […]

Hello again booklovers! This week we are looking ahead to events that have a distinctly ‘local’ flavour, both in terms of the speakers and the subjects. And what a smorgasbord we have! Fiction, poetry, non- fiction and a chance to get involved yourself. It’s all here! We start in East Anglia itself. Tom Blass will […]

What could be better at Christmas than a selection of short stories by a well loved author? It’s the literary equivalent of sitting in front of a log fire, wrapped up in a warm blanket. Louisa May Alcott is known to most of us as the author of Little Women, a classic and all time […]

  Where did October go? The bangs and whooshes of fireworks going off despite the rain reminds me that we really are into November! To be fair, for half of October I was on a Norwegian post boat travelling from Bergen up past the Arctic Circle, round to the Russian border and back to Bergen. […]