Monthly Bookish Blog

Hello booklovers, It feels like an age since we last met! We return to your screens with exciting news about the Felixstowe Book Festival Book Club. Ruth and Liz have chosen ‘The Burning Land’ by George Alagiah as the next exciting read to get your teeth into. George was a wonderful guest at our 2020 […]

Hello booklovers, Once upon a time, we lived through lockdown. Bleak news filled our lives globally and personally; shops and establishments closed their doors and plans were cancelled; we were denied seeing our family and our friends. In the face of blank calendars and scribbled-out diaries, there was very little to look forward to… until […]

Hello booklovers, Today’s the day! Our festival is finally here and we are all very excited here at the virtual festival HQ. We hope you are too. As you know, our festival this year is entirely online. We have a whole host of Live Interviews, pre-recorded author Q&As, plus video insights into the day in […]

Hello booklovers, Our festival is extremely lucky to recieve a great deal of support from local businesses and we are so grateful for their sponsorship. Today we are saying a big thank you to David Button Independent Funeral Directors. David Button Independent Funeral Directors is a small, family run business with a friendly, relaxed and […]

Hello booklovers, We would like to round off our celebration of our sponsors by saying a huge thank you to yet another independent local business showing us their support: Poor Richard’s Books. Poor Richard’s Books is an independent book shop located in Felixstowe town centre specialising in second-hand and antiquarian books. 70,000 books on two […]

Hello booklovers, Over the past few days a collection of authors have taken isolation to the next level and imagined themselves alone on a desert island with only three books for company. Together they assembled a magnificent castaway library. Here are the books to be found on our literary desert island (author surname first, in […]