It is with great sadness that we have to inform you that Mairéad, our Friends coordinator, is no longer with us. 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. We apologise for the inconvenience and hope to get the […]

Good evening booklovers! A very happy Wednesday to you all! Half way through the week, ceaselessly pushing on towards another bank holiday weekend. What sort of plans do you have? Personally I intend to do a lot of lounging on the beach, book-reading and… perusing the festival poetry events, of course! “I saw the gooseflesh […]

Good evening booklovers! I do hope you have been soaking up the sun and enjoying the glorious weather. Despite being stuck in the office all day, I did manage to sneak a little walk along our beautiful seafront this afternoon! Peaceful and sleepy, Felixstowe seems a far cry from the setting of any crime novel… […]

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 […]

Good afternoon booklovers, We’ve been getting all excited about our glorious array of fiction and non-fiction events, but have yet to divulge the full wonder of our Felixstowe Book Festival interactive workshop sessions. We have the whole caboodle on offer, catering for tastes both young and old. If you want to recharge your batteries and […]

Good afternoon book lovers, and a very happy Friday to you all! What are you plans for the bank holiday weekend? Maybe you could spend some time exploring our programme and booking your tickets for our festival weekend! Have a butchers at our little ticket purchasing guide: You can buy your tickets IN PERSON thanks […]

Happy Monday booklovers! Here at the Felixstowe Book Festival we pride ourselves on our varied programme. Not only do we provide a fantastic array of talks and interviews about fiction – we are also treating you all to a variety of non-fiction events. Should your interests lie with the world of the Impressionists, then look no further […]

Good evening Book Lovers! What a magnificent Monday it has been! Shakespeare’s birthday, St George’s Day AND the birth of a new royal Prince. Morale-boosting stuff for the beginning of the week, after what was such a glorious sunny weekend. Should morale need boosting further, I bring a *gentle* reminder that, if you wish to […]

Hello Booklovers! If you have heard about our visit from Caroline Slocock and would like to find out more, we have an abundance of interesting snippets about Caroline and her new book ‘People like Us: Margaret Thatcher and Me’, which will be published on the 19th of April, for you to dig into. Last week, […]