The home of books by the sea…The Felixstowe Book Festival 2022 will take place over the weekend of the 25th and 26th of June 2022 at Harvest House, Felixstowe and Two Sisters Arts Centre in Trimley St Mary.
At Harvest House, the beautiful Palm Court, dining room and conservatory will be where festival patron Esther Freud will be talking to highly acclaimed writer Tessa Hadley. Also attending actor and author Stephen McGann (who plays Dr Turner in Call the Midwife), Patrick Gale, broadcaster Justin Webb, husband and wife thriller team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French ,Nicola Upson and author and actress Carol Drinkwaterr. The full list of authors is on the Festival website include fiction or non-fiction, current affairs, history, science, crime and popular culture.
Over the same weekend the Festival's second venue, the Two Sisters Arts Centre in Trimley St Mary, has a full programme with a ‘Suffolk and the Sea’ theme on Saturday and a programme of workshops and speakers for an ‘Emerging Writers Day’, led by author Amanda Hodgkinson, from University of Suffolk, on Sunday.