Hello booklovers, One month to go until the 2021 Felixstowe Book Festival, the bookish excitement starts now! We are very much looking forward sharing our wonderful varied programme this year. With some events taking place online and others in person at our fantastic festival location Harvest House, this will be a festival like no other. […]
Book club meeting invitation, May
Hello booklovers, I hope you are all well and getting suitably excited about the 2021 Felixstowe Book Festival – not long to go now! We are holding our latest monthly book club meeting on Monday 24th May at 7.30pm and would be delighted if you would like to join us. This month’s choice is ‘Night […]
Nature Writing: Matt Gaw and James Canton
Hello booklovers, It is a truth universally acknowledged that many of us have developed a deeper appreciation of the natural world over the past year. We have been observing more, listening more, growing more and thinking more about how we approach our natural surroundings. As we head further into Spring, hopefully with warmer weather round […]
Book Club Invitation, April
Hello booklovers, We’re really looking forward to our next book club meeting which will take place tomorrow, the 19th April, at 7.30pm. This month we’ll be discussing The Lies You Told by Harriet Tyce. Alongside some discussion of Harriet’s work there will be plenty of bookish chat, book recommendations and a laugh – if this […]
Female Perspectives: Esther Freud, Helen McCarthy, Jojo Moyes, Juliet Nicolson
Hello booklovers, This week we’ve decided to highlight festival writers who put women and the collective experience of womanhood, at the forefront of their work. On the 8th of March, we celebrated International Women’s Day. In the same week, women across Britain mourned the murder of Sarah Everard, which triggered an outpouring of personal experiences […]
A Twist in the Tale: Crime Fiction with Harriet Tyce, Kate Rhodes and Louise Millar
Hello booklovers, Crime fiction has always been an immensely popular and dominant genre, from the post war golden age crime novels of the 1920s, 30s and 40s to the wide ranging crime novels that adorn our shelves today. This is largely thanks to riveting plots, eye popping crimes and terrifying twists that send the imagination […]
Approaches to History: Edoardo Albert, Paul Gething and Esther Rutter
Hello booklovers, One of the many beauties of books is that they allow you to enter different worlds which as readers we may well have never discovered before. Some of our brilliant 2021 guests, Edoardo Albert, Paul Gething and Esther Rutter examine periods of our history in completely different, and completely riveting, ways. In Warrior: […]
An Ode to Motherhood – some poetry for Mothering Sunday
Hello booklovers, Today on Mothering Sunday, I give you some thoughts on a poem by Sylvia Plath, an exciting new anthology of poems from author Ana Sampson (who will be featuring as a guest at Fbf’s 2021 online festival) and some musings on a feathered friend… Whilst out on my daily stroll a few days […]
FbF Book Club Invitation for the 15 of March
Hello booklovers, I have finished the thrilling The Dead of Winter by Nicola Upson right in the nick of time for our first book club meeting and it’s safe to say I loved being embroiled in the wonderful world of Josephine Tey that Nicola has created! We would be delighted for you all to join our […]
Perspectives of Aloneness on International Women’s Day: Francesca Specter and Dr Emma Hepburn
Hello booklovers, Today, March the 8th, is International Women’s Day, a day to celebrate and commemorate female achievement and to raise awareness of the importance of equality. How have your perspectives of womanhood shifted over the past year? We thought to celebrate this day FbF style it would be appropriate to highlight a fascinating event […]