Felixstowe Book Festival 2016

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

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