Our main festival tickets might not yet be on sale until Wednesday 1st April, but you can already secure your tickets today for our Opening Event on: Friday 26th June from 7.30pm Venue: Two Sisters Arts Centre, High Rd, Trimley St Mary, Felixstowe IP11 0SP Scenes from a Life features poems from Blake Morrison’s Afterburn […]
Monthly Bookish Blog
Announcing our first Pre Festival Event in May with Nicci French
This year we’ve again teamed up with the rather splendid Orwell Lady River Trips. In May, ahead of the main festival in June, you have the chance to immerse yourself in the picturesque Suffolk countryside. We are inviting you to journey along the River Orwell, one of England’s most beautiful and historic rivers. Hop onboard […]
What does the Felixstowe Book Festival mean to you?
As we start preparations for this year’s 2026 festival, Louise Millar asks three festival regulars how our exciting local event has changed their lives Stephen Amer sound engineer ‘The Felixstowe Book Festival means a great deal to me, both professionally and personally. ‘My role at the festival is to provide sound for the Palm Room […]
Happy Christmas from Luxembourg!
Festival author Ruth Dugdall takes us on a special Christmas visit back to the location that inspired her relaunched Cate Austin crime series I hadn’t been to a Christmas market until I moved to Luxembourg with my husband and two children and we fully embraced the tradition of drinking warm Gluhwein (or hot chocolate for […]
Welcome to our 2025 festival!
The sun is out, excitement is mounting, and nerves increasing, as, after nine months of work, the Felixstowe Book Festival committee prepares to launch our 2025 festival, with the support of our fabulous team of volunteers. Publicist Stephanie Mackentyre, sponsor manager Kerry Addison and festival director Meg Reid tell blog editor Louise Millar about the […]
Trump, tariffs and deglobalisation
Will a diminishing inter-dependence between countries lead to new security and peace – or does isolationism create new dangers? Economics expert Ben Chu, formerly of BBC’s Newsnight and The Independent, brings that discussion, and his fascinating new book ‘Exile Economics’, to this year’s festival. Here, he gives us an exclusive extract The election of Donald […]