We were delighted to welcome the following speakers at our 2016 festival:
Juliet Barker
Juliet Barker is a bestselling historian and internationally-recognised expert on the Brontë sisters … read more
Fanny Blake
Fanny Blake was a publisher for many years, editing both fiction and non-fiction before becoming a freelance journalist … read more
Tom Blass
Tom Blass studied anthropology, law and politics … read more
Katarzyna Bonda
Katarzyna Bonda (b. 1977) is a crime writer and journalist … read more
Sarah Bower
Sarah Bower is the author of three novels and many short stories … read more
Megan Bradbury
Megan Bradbury was born in the United States and grew up in Britain. She studied at the University of East Anglia … read more
Malcolm Burgess
Publisher Malcolm Burgess takes us on the journey that led to the creation of the popular urban writing anthologies … read more
Liz Calder
Liz Calder began her publishing career in 1971 at Victor Gollancz, where she published Salman Rushdie’s first novel … read more
Wendy Constance
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S.E. Craythorne
Brought up on a smallholding in rural Norfolk, S.E. Craythorne has worked as a bookseller, journalist … read more
Julia Crouch
In a wide-ranging working life, Julia Crouch has been a waitress, shop assistant, theatre director, playwright, teacher, publicist, graphic/website designer and illustrator … read more
Roger Crowley
Roger Crowley was born in 1951 and educated at Cambridge University. As the child of a naval family … read more
Rob Davies
Rob Davies has worked as an editor for several London-based publishers, specialising in books on art and design before he moved to the British Library … read more
Ruth Dugdall
Ruth Dugdall is a crime writer, whose home and heart is in Felixstowe … read more
Martin Edwards
Martin Edwards is the author of eighteen novels, including the Lake District Mysteries … read more
Rebecca Elliott
Rebecca Elliott has illustrated well over 200 picture books since she began her career in 2002 … read more
Felixstowe Café Poets
Felixstowe Café Poets provide a venue at which working poets of today can read their self – penned work and/or read and discuss known poets’ work … read more
Felixstowe Scribblers
Ruth Fitzgerald
When Ruth was six, she wanted to be a writer, her teacher advised her to get a proper job … read more
Ian Fraser
Ian Fraser has worked as a journalist for 25 years, writing for titles including The Economist, Financial Times, Sunday Times, Guardian … read more
Hugh Fraser
Hugh Fraser is perhaps best known for playing Captain Hastings in the television series Agatha Christie’s Poirot … read more
Guy Fraser-Sampson
Guy Fraser-Sampson originally qualified as a lawyer and became an equity partner in a City of London law firm at the age of 26 … read more
Harry Freedman
Harry Freedman is a writer and academic with a PhD in Aramaic … read more
Nicci French
Sean French and Nicci Gerrard have been writing crime novels together for twenty years, while being married, working as journalists … read more
Daniel Hahn
Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator … read more
Elizabeth Haynes
Elizabeth Haynes is the author of five crime novels … read more
Veronica Henry
Veronica Henry has worked as a scriptwriter for The Archers, Heartbeart and Holby City amongst many others, before turning to fiction … read more
J.M Hewitt
Jeanette Hewitt has had two novels published independently, Freedom First Peace Later in 2010 and Worlds Apart … read more
Polly Ho-Yen
Polly Ho-Yen was born in Northampton and brought up in Buckinghamshire. She studied English at Birmingham University before working in publishing and as a teacher … read more
Lily Hunter Green
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Gabriela Kozyra
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Tanya Landman
Tanya Landman, the award winning author of more than thirty books for children and young adults … read more
Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Antonia Lloyd-Jones has translated the entire trilogy of best-selling crime novels by Zygmunt Miłoszewski … read more
Hayley Long
Hayley Long began writing teen fiction while working as an English teacher … read more
Joris Luyendijk
Joris Luyendijk, an investigative journalist, knew as much about banking as the average person: almost nothing. And then he was assigned to investigate the financial sector … read more
Pauline Manders
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M.J. McGrath
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Hollie McNish
Hollie McNish is an astoundingly popular live poet … read more
Giles Merritt
Giles Merritt was named by the Financial Times in 2010 as one of 30 ‘Eurostars’ who most influence thinking on Europe’s future … read more
Deborah Moggach
Deborah Moggach is the best-selling author of These Foolish Things which was made into the hit movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel … read more
Luiz Morais
Born in the North East of Brazil, 7-string guitar player, arranger and composer Luiz Morais has been playing the guitar … read more
Mandy Morton
Mandy Morton was born in Suffolk and began her professional life as a musician … read more
Martin Newell and the Hosepipe Band
Martin Newell is a poet, songwriter and rock musician … read more
Ed Nicholls
Ed has been involved in organising ghost tours for nearly a decade … read more
Orwell Writers’ League
Lucy Popescu
Lucy Popescu is a writer, editor and critic with a background in human rights … read more
Mary Powles
Mary Powles was born in Suffolk and educated in Ipswich … read more
Heather Reyes
Kate Rhodes
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Hannah Sheppard
Hannah was an in-house editor for ten years (Macmillan Children’s Books & Headline) before … read more
Will Stone
Will Stone is a poet, essayist and literary translator … read more
Kev F Sutherland
Kev F Sutherland writes and draws for The Beano, Doctor Who and Marvel comics … read more
Rosy Thornton
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Rose Tremain
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Alison Weir
Alison Weir is the top-selling female historian (and the fifth best-selling historian overall) in the United Kingdom … read more
Laura Wilson
Laura Wilson’s acclaimed and award-winning crime fiction has won her many fans … read more
Sheila Wright
Sheila Wright has lived in Suffolk since 1970, and is the author of several books about Suffolk people and places … read more
