Monthly Bookish Blog

We asked our Felixstowe Book Festival patrons Esther Freud, Sir Terry Waite KCMG CBE and Robin Ince, and festival chair Meg Reid, which books they’ll be reading and buying for family and friends this Christmas – and hoping to receive! ESTHER FREUD Which book would you like to receive this Christmas? I have asked for […]

The Felixstowe Book Festival committee members recall the early stories that turned them into lifelong readers. We’d love to hear about yours, too, in the comments below!   Meg Reid Minnow On The Say by A Philippa Pearce, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.               This is a favourite book from […]

Memories of this summer’s Felixstowe Book Festival may still be fresh, but work has already started on next year’s event. New festival committee member Louise Millar takes us behind the scenes of what happens next for 2025. This year I joined the steering committee of the Felixstowe Book Festival – and what an eye-opener it’s […]

Tom Sykes, author of Coast of Teeth I love literary festivals for their diversity – and I use that term in its most diverse sense. Many forms and genres are represented, and there’s huge variety amongst the attendees. Twenty years ago, I had an experience that was unsettling then, but that now I think is […]

I designed the book festival artwork with Felixstowe’s identity in mind. Having explored the pier and the promenade in recent years, I decided it would be great to make the port the focus this year. Felixstowe has an important global connection, with thousands of goods being imported and exported at the docks. The huge container […]

Novelist Rachel Hore describes the benefit of a peaceful mini-writing break away from home ‘We are staying in a rented cottage in North Norfolk this week, where I am polishing my next novel prior to delivering it to my editor.  I value the peace and solitude here to do this.  Reading through the entire script, […]