Hello booklovers, The sun is shining and the birds are singing – despite not being able to enjoy such sights as usual, they can still be savoured from the great indoors whilst enjoying a good book. The next few weeks would normally be part of the Easter holidays but, as with everything, this year is […]
FbF ultimate reading recommendations: Literary Histories
Hello booklovers, And so we beat on, boats against the current of normal life, borne back ceaselessly into the past with no cafés or shops or museums or galleries… but what we do have is books! I hope you enjoyed our biography reading recommendations from earlier in the week, take a peek here if you […]
FbF ultimate reading recommendations…
Hello booklovers, How are you all faring? Here at festival HQ we are all trundling along fairly well. The only benefit of this social distancing business appears to be copious amounts of time to spend up to our eyeballs in delicious books. I have just finished the glorious latest instalment from Elly Griffiths in the […]
Our chock-a-block Children’s Programme
Hello booklovers, We are all taking life day by day at the moment and amidst this uncertainty it is quite uplifting to think about fun things to come. We are thrilled with your response to the release of our 2020 Festival Programme, thank you as ever for your support. In that same spirit, send out […]
A virtual book club (and other isolation fun…)
Hello booklovers, We hope you are all coping with these strange and unsettling times of ours. Here at the Felixstowe Book Festival we have been looking at ways to keep our dear festival fans entertained during a time where a great deal of our favourite outlets are out of bounds for the foreseeable future. Those […]
Cancellation of FbF Quiz, FbF Friends meeting and Cuppa Book Club
Hello booklovers, We hope that you are all keeping well and looking after yourselves during these tricky times. It is with great sadness that we have decided that our festival Quiz, which was to be held on the 27th of March, will sadly not be going ahead due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. We are […]
An International Women’s Day celebration
Hello booklovers, Here at the Felixstowe Book Festival we are extremely proud to have held host to many exceptional female writers and we are thrilled to welcome many more to our 2020 festival. March is Women’s History Month and today, March 8th, is International Women’s Day, an occasion to celebrate female achievement and continue to […]
It’s World Book Day folks!
Hello booklovers, Today, March the 5th, marks World Book Day, an annual celebration encouraging the joy that books and reading for pleasure can bring to our youngest readers, a message that feeds into the very heart of the Felixstowe Book Festival. The benefits of reading for pleasure are innumerable and lifelong. Research suggests that reading […]
Another wonderful session at Cuppa…
Hello booklovers, Once again we are blown away by your wonderful and enthusiastic support of the Felixstowe Book Festival Cuppa Book Club. We do hope you enjoyed the spooky theme of this week’s session with some literary treats in the form of Haverscroft by S.A. Harris and Ghostland by Edward Parnell. Another round of applause […]
News of Cuppa Book Club and quizzes!
Hello booklovers, We are steadily edging towards the end of February – I hope you are all surviving the absolute weatherly lashing we have been receiving over the past few weeks. Hopefully some exciting news of some upcoming festival events will stoke you up for better (and brighter!) things to come… Firstly we are very […]