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Supper by the Sea with author Oggy Boytchev

Supper by the Sea with author Oggy Boytchev

06/05/2026    
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Loca Bar & Restaurant
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Pre Festival Event
As part of our series of Pre Festival events we are delighted to offer the opportunity to have supper at Loca Bar & Restaurant on [...]
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Pre Festival Write Away! at Hotel Coco, Felixstowe

Pre Festival Write Away! at Hotel Coco, Felixstowe

16/05/2026    
9:30 am - 4:00 pm
Hotel Coco
  • Adult Programme
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Pre Festival Event
You are invited to join us for a day of workshops, talks and a Q&A on writing and publishing hosted by the prestigious boutique Hotel [...]
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Join us for a Pre Festival River Trip with authors Nicci French

Join us for a Pre Festival River Trip with authors Nicci French

31/05/2026    
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Orwell Quay, Ipswich
  • Adult Programme
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Festival Preview Events
  • Fiction
Join us on the river on board Orwell Lady to hear from the writing partnership of Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. Focusing on their career, [...]
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Felixstowe Book Festival Opening Event - tickets now available!!

Felixstowe Book Festival Opening Event - tickets now available!!

26/06/2026    
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
2 Sisters Arts Centre Trimley
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Day ticket - Friday/Saturday Online Events
  • Early Release
  • Live Programme
  • New event
  • Performance
  • Two Sisters
Our main festival tickets might not yet be on sale until Wednesday 1st April, however, you can already secure your tickets today for our Opening [...]
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Dame Jacqueline Wilson - Picture Imperfect

Dame Jacqueline Wilson - Picture Imperfect

27/06/2026    
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Harvest House
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Fiction
  • Palm Court
Millions grew up loving The Illustrated Mum; now find out what happens next in this joyful adult sequel. Dolphin Westward is done with putting everyone [...]
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Jay Griffiths How Animals heal Us

Jay Griffiths How Animals heal Us

27/06/2026    
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Harvest House
  • Adult Programme
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Conservatory
  • Non-fiction
Pet-owners and animal-lovers instinctively know that animals heal. This book offers the evidence, drawing widely on scientific discoveries, history, and Indigenous knowledge. We meet a [...]
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Professor Matei Candea  Reason, Carnival and Honour

Professor Matei Candea Reason, Carnival and Honour

27/06/2026    
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Harvest House
  • Adult Programme
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Conservatory
  • Non-fiction
What does free speech really mean? How does our understanding of it differ around the world? Why does it divide us – and how can [...]
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Sarah Perry Death of an Ordinary Man

Sarah Perry Death of an Ordinary Man

27/06/2026    
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Harvest House
  • Adult Programme
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Non-fiction
  • Palm Court
This is not a book about grief: it is a book about dying, and it is a book about family, and care and love. WINNER [...]
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Helen Bain The Daffodil Days

Helen Bain The Daffodil Days

27/06/2026    
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Harvest House
  • Adult Programme
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Conservatory
  • Fiction
A mesmerising debut novel imagining a pivotal year in the marriage of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes in a small Devonshire town, as brought to [...]
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Simon Barnes How to Fly: Taking Wing with Birds, Bats, Insects and Humans

Simon Barnes How to Fly: Taking Wing with Birds, Bats, Insects and Humans

27/06/2026    
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Harvest House
  • Adult Programme
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Non-fiction
  • Palm Court
This book brings together all aspects of aerial life- evolution, technology, religion, nature and imagination- in a celebration of the wonders of flight. A unique [...]
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Juliet Nicolson The Book of Revelations: Women and Their Secrets From the 1950s to the Present Day

Juliet Nicolson The Book of Revelations: Women and Their Secrets From the 1950s to the Present Day

27/06/2026    
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Harvest House
  • Adult Programme
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Non-fiction
  • Palm Court
A beautifully written blend of memoir, first-person stories and social history that explores the changing nature of the secrets held by three generations of women. [...]
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Professor Anna Whitelock The Sun Rising: James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain

Professor Anna Whitelock The Sun Rising: James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain

27/06/2026    
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Harvest House
  • Adult Programme
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Conservatory
  • Non-fiction
A panoramic history of the arrival of the Stuarts, and how the reign of King James I saw England reach new corners of the globe. [...]
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Patrick Gale Love Lane

Patrick Gale Love Lane

27/06/2026    
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Harvest House
  • Adult Programme
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Fiction
  • Palm Court
When A Place Called Winter’s Harry Cane returns from Canada his arrival triggers unwelcome self-examination for the family he abandoned and for whom he has [...]
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Sir Terry Waite KCMG CBE

Sir Terry Waite KCMG CBE

27/06/2026    
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Harvest House
  • Adult Programme
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Conservatory
  • Non-fiction
Our Festival Patron discusses his life’s work. As a British human rights activist and author we are thrilled that Sir Terry is also one of [...]
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Katie da Cunha Lewin The Writer's Room: The Hidden Worlds that Shape the Books We Love

Katie da Cunha Lewin The Writer's Room: The Hidden Worlds that Shape the Books We Love

27/06/2026    
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Harvest House
  • Adult Programme
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Conservatory
  • Non-fiction
The Brontës’ study in the parsonage; Virginia Woolf’s garden room; Maya Angelou writing in hotel rooms and Ernest Hemingway in Parisian cafés- What is it [...]
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Sarah Vaughan Based On A True Story

Sarah Vaughan Based On A True Story

27/06/2026    
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Harvest House
  • Adult Programme
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Fiction
  • Palm Court
The gripping new suspense novel from the bestselling author of 'Anatomy of a Scandal', A compelling novel about power, money and lies - A lavish [...]
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Harriet Tyce Witch Trial

Harriet Tyce Witch Trial

28/06/2026    
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Harvest House
  • Adult Programme
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Palm Court
A dark, original and compulsive legal thriller from the bestselling author of Blood Orange which revolves around the death of a teenager in an Edinburgh [...]
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Richard Negus Words From The Hedge - A Hedgelayer’s View of the Countryside

Richard Negus Words From The Hedge - A Hedgelayer’s View of the Countryside

28/06/2026    
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Harvest House
  • Adult Programme
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Conservatory
  • Non-fiction
A passionate evocation of the history, beauty and importance of our hedgerows, their usage and value for wildlife habitat, nature recovery and biodiversity. Hedges are [...]
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Patrick Galbraith Uncommon Ground: Rethinking our relationship with the countryside

Patrick Galbraith Uncommon Ground: Rethinking our relationship with the countryside

28/06/2026    
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Harvest House
  • Adult Programme
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Non-fiction
  • Palm Court
Patrick Galbraith takes us on an extraordinary tour of rural Britain, from the Hebrides to Devon, and from Anglo-Saxon England to the present day. To [...]
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Susan Owens Constable's Year: An Artist in Changing Seasons

Susan Owens Constable's Year: An Artist in Changing Seasons

28/06/2026    
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Harvest House
  • Adult Programme
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Conservatory
  • Non-fiction
Shaped by the cycle of the natural world, a fresh look at the life and work of John Constable as we celebrate the 250th anniversary [...]
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Blake Morrison On Memoir: An A-Z of Life Writing

Blake Morrison On Memoir: An A-Z of Life Writing

28/06/2026    
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Harvest House
  • Adult Programme
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Conservatory
  • Non-fiction
An exploration of narrative non-fiction, its challenges, ethics and charms, and its power to move and change us. From AI to ethics to politics to [...]
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Robin Ince Let the Quiet Ones Rise - poems about standing up and standing out

Robin Ince Let the Quiet Ones Rise - poems about standing up and standing out

28/06/2026    
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Harvest House
  • Adult Programme
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Non-fiction
  • Palm Court
An hour of stories and poems from our Festival Patron, looking at how to be a better ally, how to fit in the world and [...]
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Dr Alison Weir - replacement for Sunday 28th June 3pm - 4pm

Dr Alison Weir - replacement for Sunday 28th June 3pm - 4pm

28/06/2026    
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Harvest House
  • Adult Programme
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Fiction
  • Palm Court
Dr Alison Weir will no longer be attending the Festival and unfortunately her cancellation came after our brochure was printed. However, we are delighted to [...]
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Mandy Morton Tea at 3 - 'The Tabby in Black'

Mandy Morton Tea at 3 - 'The Tabby in Black'

28/06/2026    
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Harvest House
  • Adult Programme
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Conservatory
  • Fiction
Join festival favourite Mandy Morton for an afternoon tea as she reads from the latest book in her No2. Feline Detective Agency series. 'The Tabby [...]
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Mary-Jane Riley - Beattie Cavendish and the Highland Hideaway

Mary-Jane Riley - Beattie Cavendish and the Highland Hideaway

28/06/2026    
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Harvest House
  • Adult Programme
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Fiction
  • Palm Court
The compelling mystery series is set at the dawn of the Cold War 1949. The Cold War is intensifying and rumours abound that the Russians [...]
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Ruth Dugdall The Cate Austin crime series

Ruth Dugdall The Cate Austin crime series

28/06/2026    
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Harvest House
  • Adult Programme
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Fiction
  • Palm Court
Cate Austin is a probation officer, juggling the demands of the job with being a single mum. The six-book series, set in and around Felixstowe, [...]
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Will Stone Conversations With Rilke by Maurice Betz translated by Will Stone

Will Stone Conversations With Rilke by Maurice Betz translated by Will Stone

28/06/2026    
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Harvest House
  • Adult Programme
  • Adult Programme 2026
  • Conservatory
  • Non-fiction
An intimate portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke's life and art in interwar Paris, which offers unparalleled insight into the creative process of one of the [...]
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