Hello booklovers, I hope you all had a brilliant weekend. Less than a week to go now until our fabulous festival weekend, how time flies. So much to look forward to! We have a treat in stall for our younger readers today. Who likes buried treasure? Who is interested in our local history? Anyone have […]

Hello booklovers, It’s Friday… which means this time in one week our 2019 Felixstowe Book Festival will be on the BRINK of beginning! There is so much to look forward to, we can’t wait to get cracking. In the meantime, to control our excitement, we bring you the second installment of our ‘Don’t miss…’ series, […]

Hello booklovers, One week until our first event of the Felixstowe Book Festival weekend, as we kick off with the fabulous Prue Leith on Thursday 27th June. We can’t believe it’s nearly here! Over the next few days we will be releasing our ‘Don’t miss…’ blog posts, alerting our wonderful book festival visitors to some […]

Hello booklovers, We hope you enjoyed our preview of our fiction events at this year’s festival. The fun doesn’t stop there, as we are pleased to present to you some highlights of our historical fiction events. On Saturday 29th June James Runcie, author of the Grantchester novels, will be joining us to discuss his prequel to the […]

Hello booklovers, As if our blog earlier this week wasn’t exciting enough, as promised we bring you the further lowdown on our excellent fiction events for the 2019 Felixstowe Book festival. To begin our programme on Sunday 30th of June, we are pleased to welcome Barbara Erskine to the floor. Barbara, author of many fantastic […]

Hello booklovers, This year is truly whizzing past, with only 3 weeks to go until the 2019 Felixstowe book festival. We are so pleased to be able to present to you a wonderful selection of fiction events for your delight and delectation. Look out for snippets of information about our fabulous fiction programme over the […]

Hello booklovers, Less than a month until the 2019 Felixstowe Book Festival! The excitement is palpable, we can’t wait to get started. On Sunday we were delighted to welcome Maggi Hambling and Nicola Upson to the Orwell Hotel – a lovely snippet of further things to come. We are thrilled to have such a thriving […]

Hello booklovers, We’re back, with further news of our fantastic festival programme for children and young people! Rounding off our Saturday events, we have two sessions perfect for young history enthusiasts. We are lucky enough to be joined by the Sutton Hoo Roadshow, following their highly successful visit to Felixstowe Library earlier this year. Come along […]

Hello booklovers, Half term is upon us! I hope readers, young and old, are enjoying that lovely school-holiday feeling. We see this as an appropriate time to start making a fuss about our magnificent children’s programme, on offer at Felixstowe Library over the course of the festival weekend. Kicking off the 2019 children’s events in […]

Hello booklovers, I hope you enjoyed the first part of our festival workshops guide, letting you know all about the workshops happening in various locations around Felixstowe. Now we move on to part two, all about the workshops taking place in our main venue, the Orwell Hotel. Read on for more exciting information… First steps […]