Hello booklovers, I can’t believe it is November already. 2019 has whizzed by… and speaking of whizzing (and fizzing!) of the firework variety… Remember, remember the fifth of November… Whilst personally I find the tale of the gunpowder plot quite gruesome, at least it gives us the excuse for a chilly evening spent with friends […]
Happy half term reading (and beyond!)
Hello booklovers, A very happy half term to you all, especially to those budding readers who might be looking for something new to get their teeth into over the school holidays and the next half of term. Look no further for a few recommendations of some brilliant new books for children and young people… The […]
Autumn awaits…
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers…” Hello booklovers, I’ve got to say I’m completely with Anne of Green Gables on this one – I LOVE October. I love the nights drawing in. I love the trees turning copper and late sun and finding autumnal treasures like conkers and bright […]
Hello September! It’s writing workshop time…
Hello booklovers! We cannot thank you all enough for your support and encouragement of our hugely successful 2019 festival. As you can see we have had a hiatus over the lovely long summer to recover from that busy weekend! We return to your screens with some exciting news about a Felixstowe Book Festival event happening […]
A festival thank you to… Stillwater Books
Hello booklovers, We are so lucky to have such a varied programme here at the Felixstowe Book Festival and we are equally lucky to have a book stall that caters for our diverse events. Once again, we bid an enormous THANK YOU to the wonderful Stillwater Books, our local independent bookstall on Hamilton Road, who […]
A festival thank you to… Breeze Events
Hello booklovers, I hope you are all enjoying the lovely weather of this post-festival week! As part of our festival round up posts, we would like to wish an enormous thank you to the brilliant team behind all of the technical support over the festival weekend, Breeze Events. This fab duo, made up of the […]
And the winners are….
The festival is over and it started with a bang as the winners of the Short Story Competition were announced at our launch event. The judges told us that the 21 entries ‘were stronger than ever’ (Ruth Dugdall). However, there had to be winners and the overall winner was: Ms Gillian Greenslade with ‘The Green […]
A festival thank you to… our volunteers
Hello booklovers, I don’t know about you, but I am still completely over the moon about our brilliant festival weekend. In order to get you through this difficult post festival week, where it is dawning slowly on us all that we have to wait one whole year before our next bout of festival fun, we […]
And that’s a wrap!
Hello booklovers, WOW. What a magnificent weekend! I am sad to say that the 2019 Felixstowe Book Festival has come to a close – but what a brilliant weekend. We are all on an absolute book-filled high here at Festival HQ! I want to say a huge THANK YOU to you all, our wonderful festival […]
Welcome to the Felixstowe Book Festival weekend 2019!
Hello booklovers, The moment we have all been waiting for has arrived! The 2019 Felixstowe Book Festival is officially underway! After a barnstorming success with the fabulous Prue Leith last night, the festival weekend is now your oyster. We have a weekend ahead crammed FULL of creative writing workshops for young and old, non fiction […]
