Monthly Bookish Blog

Hello booklovers, Welcome to the first installment of your bookish Advent Calendar. We are delighted to start our celebration of yuletide books with… Festive Spirits by Kate Atkinson. Who doesn’t love a short story at Christmas time? Time can be short and a the to-do list can be endless, so a short burst of festive […]

Hello booklovers, Advent is upon us once again and it’s time for the Felixstowe Book Festival team to spread some comfort, warmth and festive cheer. What better way to do that than through the medium of books? We all have our traditions at Christmastime – indeed a few years ago we ran a festive blog […]

Hello booklovers, How time flies… it doesn’t seem so long since we were basking in the early summer sunshine and enjoying festival events at Harvest House and the Two Sisters Arts Centre. Now November approaches, the trees have undergone their beautiful transformation from green to gold, and the nights are drawing in. With that autumnal […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]