The Felixstowe Book Festival has now become an integral part of the Festival calendar and goes from strength to strength. Do check out the website, here, and come along if you can. I have been involved with the Festival from the start and am full of admiration for those who organise and run it. Seeing close up how much work is involved is quite something.
Last year I had the pleasure of introducing Alison Weir who has embarked on a series of historical novels about the six wives of Henry VIII. Last year she did a wonderful presentation on Katherine of Aragon, which I wrote about here, and this year I am delighted to be back to welcome her to Felixstowe where she will talk about Anne Boleyn, the second in the series and which I have reviewed here.
On Saturday afternoon I am hosting An Afternoon of Romance something which I have wanted to do for sometime as I am a lover of romantic novels and feel they are dismissed too easily as rubbish. Three speakers will be proving that they are not.
Julia Jones will be thinking about Jane Austen as Chick-Lit. Kate Hardy will tell us what it is like to be a Mills and Boon author. Jan Jones, a writer of Regency novels, will be talking to us about her writing life and the Romantic Novelists’ Association. We will round off the afternoon with a cup of tea and a scone (included in the ticket price) and the chance to chat to the authors.
Going to be fun so please come along and say hello.
On the Sunday I am introducing Professor Steven Smith whose latest book is Russia In Revolution. One hundred years since 1917 but Professor Smith will be giving us a panoramic account of this event from the last years on the nineteenth century, through the First World War and the revolutions of the fateful year, to the end of the 1920's when Stalin was in power.
I have loved history all my life and, as the mother of a published historian, it is a great honour for me to introduce our distinguished speaker.
I am only posting today about the events I am involved in, says she selfishly, but the whole festival is packed with fantastic speakers including Stella Rimington (a sell out), Terry Waite, Esther Freud, Stella Duffy and many more. Year after year great authors love to appear at Felixstowe so come along and enjoy.
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