Hello booklovers, Today’s the day! Welcome to the 2022 Felixstowe Book Festival. We hope you have enjoyed our Bookish Best blog series, celebrating 10 years of the Felixstowe Book Festival. We’ve been asking some of our 2022 guests some questions about their bookish lives over the past ten years. We’ve had some fascinating insights from […]
Bookish Best…. Alexander Larman
Hello booklovers, We hope that Bookish Best is giving you plenty of inspiration for books to read, bookshops to visit and events to attend at FbF 2022. Our next blog guest is Alexander Larman who shares with us his bookish best bits of the past ten years… What has been your favourite read of […]
Bookish Best… Esther Freud
Hello booklovers, Next up in our Bookish Best blog, celebrating 10 years of the Felixstowe Book Festival, we have a lovely contribution from Esther Freud. If you’re curious about what literary delights our festival patron has discovered since the first Felixstowe Book Festival then do read on… What has been your favourite read of the […]
Bookish Best… Carol Drinkwater
Hello booklovers, To celebrate our 10th festival we are running a special blog series, Bookish Best. We are asking some of our 2022 speakers a series of bookish questions to give our festival fans some insight into the literary lives of our festival guests. We are delighted to be kicking off with the lovely Carol Drinkwater. […]
Festival Launch Weekend, June 11th and 12th
Hello booklovers, It’s not long to go until our festival weekend on the 25th and 26th of June. However if you can’t wait that long we are kicking off the literary festivities early with our launch weekend events on the 11th and 12th of June. Read on to find out more… Martin Newell and the […]
Two tickets left for a cruise on the Orwell Lady with… Terry Waite
Hello booklovers, A sneaky heads up for you – in conjunction with the Felixstowe Book Festival and Orwell Lady river trips, our fantastic festival patron Terry Waite will be holding an event on the Orwell Lady. The great news is that there are two tickets remaining! If you would like to get your mitts on […]
Our 2022 programme is here!
Hello booklovers, We are delighted to bring you our 2022 programme! Taking place over the 25th and 26th of June at Harvest House and the Two Sister’s Art Centre, we are looking forward to meeting some new guests and reuniting with some festival returnees. A mixture of author talks, plays, creative writing and workshops, our […]
Happy New Year and a happy new book club…
Hello book lovers, Wishing you all a happy new year! I hope that 2022 has got off to a good start. If you’re in need of a little lift, we have good news. In February we will be re-launching our book festival book club – we’re looking forward to hosting it (in person, hurrah!) at […]
Christmas Crackers… Nicci French
Hello booklovers, Here we have our final chapter of our Christmas Crackers blog series, giving you some sneak peaks into our 2022 festival. We hope you have enjoyed them and that they’ve given you plenty of bookish food for thought for the coming months. Read on to find out who else will be joining us […]
UoS creative writing collaboration
Hello booklovers, Next up in our Christmas Crackers series, we’re delighted to bring you news of our plans for a University of Suffolk emerging writers day at Two Sisters Art Centre Ring out ye creative writing bells! We are very excited to be hosting an emerging writers day in combination with the University of Suffolk […]