Hello booklovers! The excitement is palpable, the festival is nearly here! This time next week we will be in full swing! Have you booked your tickets yet? Check out our final ticket details via this link: https://felixstowebookfestival.co.uk/5107/secure-your-tickets-now  We are extremely lucky at the Felixstowe Book Festival to have a very loyal set of festival visitors, volunteers […]

Several events are already fully booked so if you are thinking of buying tickets – don’t wait! Online ticket sales will stop at midnight the day before each event.  After this time you can buy tickets at our cash and cheque only ticket desk at the Orwell Hotel from 8.30 am to 8 pm. Children […]

It is with great sadness that we have to inform you that Mairéad, our Friends coordinator, is no longer with us as she passed away unexpectedly on May 23.  The Felixstowefriends@aol.co.uk email address is therefore currently out of service and any messages to it will not be read. Please direct any communication to Felixstowebookfestival@hotmail.com instead. Mairéad is […]

Hello booklovers! A very happy Friday to you all. As you can see, our theme for this week’s blog is Father’s Day. Throughout literature, fathers are portrayed in starkly differing ways. We have the witty Mr Bennet, or the paradigm of humanity that is Atticus Finch, not to mention the foolish King Lear and the mysterious Lord […]

Calling all David Archer fans! Mr Bentinck won’t be bringing his sister to our festival but Mr Francis Wheen instead. We hope you are all as sad and excited by this news as we are.

STRONG TICKET SALES FOR FELIXSTOWE BOOK FESTIVAL 2018 With a fantastic range of events on offer, festival goers will be inspired by favourite authors at this year’s Felixstowe Book Festival, but with events selling fast, and several already sold out, the festival team is advising fans not to wait to buy tickets – we wouldn’t […]

Now in its sixth year the Felixstowe Book Festival is known as one of the friendliest book festivals. Attracting big names such as Dame Jenni Murray [Stop press – this event has sold out, sorry!], Sir Vince Cable and Damian Le Bas, whose The Stopping Places is current BBC Book of the Week, this hand-picked […]

Our author has had a busy few weeks. First he was interviewed on Radio 4, followed by glowing reviews of his book in the Sunday Times. “His prose is a delight; he breathes life into all he sees” “an ideal writer to disembroil this much misunderstood {Roma} world.” “The prose is pure delight” “To read […]

Best-selling children's author Peter Bunzl is coming to the Felixstowe Book Festival!This animation workshop will give… Posted by Felixstowe Book Festival on Thursday, 7 June 2018

Hello booklovers! I hope this week has seen you well. Hopefully the contents of this post will improve things a little further! We have Amanda Craig and Salley Vickers coming to the festival this year. Sally will discuss her new novel ‘The Librarian’. Author of a number of other wonderful pieces of literature, including ‘Dancing […]