Hello booklovers, We are so lucky to have such a varied programme here at the Felixstowe Book Festival and we are equally lucky to have a book stall that caters for our diverse events. Once again, we bid an enormous THANK YOU to the wonderful Stillwater Books, our local independent bookstall on Hamilton Road, who […]
A festival thank you to… Breeze Events
Hello booklovers, I hope you are all enjoying the lovely weather of this post-festival week! As part of our festival round up posts, we would like to wish an enormous thank you to the brilliant team behind all of the technical support over the festival weekend, Breeze Events. This fab duo, made up of the […]
And the winners are….
The festival is over and it started with a bang as the winners of the Short Story Competition were announced at our launch event. The judges told us that the 21 entries ‘were stronger than ever’ (Ruth Dugdall). However, there had to be winners and the overall winner was: Ms Gillian Greenslade with ‘The Green […]
A festival thank you to… our volunteers
Hello booklovers, I don’t know about you, but I am still completely over the moon about our brilliant festival weekend. In order to get you through this difficult post festival week, where it is dawning slowly on us all that we have to wait one whole year before our next bout of festival fun, we […]
And that’s a wrap!
Hello booklovers, WOW. What a magnificent weekend! I am sad to say that the 2019 Felixstowe Book Festival has come to a close – but what a brilliant weekend. We are all on an absolute book-filled high here at Festival HQ! I want to say a huge THANK YOU to you all, our wonderful festival […]
Welcome to the Felixstowe Book Festival weekend 2019!
Hello booklovers, The moment we have all been waiting for has arrived! The 2019 Felixstowe Book Festival is officially underway! After a barnstorming success with the fabulous Prue Leith last night, the festival weekend is now your oyster. We have a weekend ahead crammed FULL of creative writing workshops for young and old, non fiction […]
TIME FOR PRE-BOOKING IS RUNNING OUT
The internet ticket booking line will close on Friday, 28 June at 4 pm. For most events you will be able to buy tickets at the venues (Orwell Hotel & Library, depending on event location) in person (subject to availability, cash & cheque only please). Events that have sold out already are marked as such […]
Don’t miss… Emma Healey
Hello booklovers, Today, Thursday 27th June, is the first day of the 2019 Felixstowe Book Festival! Not to be outdone by another famous festival also happening this weekend in deepest Somerset, our thriving, varied and fascinating programme more than competes! We hope you have enjoyed our ‘Don’t miss’ blog series, building up to the festival […]
Don’t miss… Calling Mission Control with Rapscallion Theatre Company
Hello booklovers, One more sleep until the 2019 Felixstowe Book festival – tomorrow sees our first festival event hit the stage at the Orwell Hotel. We are unbelievably excited here at festival HQ and we can’t wait to see you all again over the festival weekend. Over the past week we have been treating you […]
Don’t miss… Lalage Snow: War Gardens
Hello booklovers, Not long until our first festival event! Have you got all your tickets booked yet? We have such a variety of events on offer, from workshops to chats about fiction and poetry, to discussions of non fiction, and much, much more. I hope today’s ‘Don’t miss…’ blog post will inspire you further. On […]
