Tickets gives you entry to : Friday 13th November 2026 2.00pm Felicity Goodall 3.30pm Erika Clegg 5.00pm Kevin Crossley-Holland Saturday 14th November 2026 10.00am Robert Ashton & Matt Gaw 11.30am Robert Colls & Ronald Binns 2.00pm Alexander Ballinger 3.30pm James Aldred & Alistair Carr 5.00pm Stewart White Sunday 15th November 2026 ...

Tickets gives you entry to : 2.00pm Felicity Goodall 3.30pm Erika Clegg 5.00pm Kevin Crossley-Holland

Felicity Goodall is a former journalist who worked on regional newspapers before spending several years as a freelance foreign correspondent in Norway. She has also worked in radio & television, most recently as a BBC Radio 4 producer. She made the first programme about the life of Anne Lister, Gentleman Jack of Halifax broadcast in 1993 & produced such programmes as “Poetry Please!” & “A Good Rea...

Erika Clegg lives in Southwold with her husband, Simon, & their son, Will. A third-generation Southwolder, she dedicated Southwold365, in part, to her grandparents, Jane & Eddie Williams, in gratitude for the love of the town they passed on to her. Erika & Simon founded the communications agency Spring in Southwold, growing it into an award-winning business whose clients included Champagne Bolling...

Kevin Crossley-Holland is a prize-winning poet, translator from Anglo-Saxon (including Beowulf), re-teller of traditional tale (“The Penguin Book of Norse Myths” & “Between Worlds: British Folk Tales”), librettist & novelist for children, winning the Carnegie Medal for “Storm” & the Guardian Fiction Prize for “The Seeing Stone”, the first book in his Arthur trilogy. He has collaborated with many c...

Tickets gives you entry to : 10.00am Robert Ashton & Matt Gaw 11.30am Robert Colls & Ronald Binns 2.00pm Alexander Ballinger 3.30pm James Aldred & Alistair Carr 5.00pm Stewart White

Robert is fascinated by our past, & the way it is increasingly informing our future. It was while researching his 2024 book “Where are the Fellows who Cut the Hay” that he realised that most people had lost a sense of connection to the natural world that their forebears would have taken for granted. His latest book “Down to Earth” set out to rebuild that connection, by telling the stories of peopl...

Alexander Ballinger has worked in the book trade for over 30 years & is an expert on writing about cinema. He was series editor of Longman's “Inside Film” and “On Directors”, wrote the acclaimed “New Cinematographers”, based on interviews with six of the world's top directors of photography, and co-authored Penguin's “The Rough Guide to Film Noir”. Alexander's day job is managing Bailey Hill Books...

James Aldred grew up on the edge of the New Forest & spent his teenage years exploring it. By 15 he was building forest shelters, sleeping rough in the woods & spending much of his time up in the branches of trees. These days, he works in the treetops as an Emmy award-winning wildlife cameraman working regularly with National Geographic and the BBC, collaborating on many landmark natural history p...

For more than 37 years, Stewart White presented “Look East” on BBC 1 in the Eastern Counties. For most of that time, he was on air 5 nights a week, every week. With more than 8,000 editions of “Look East” under his belt, it represents one of the longest uninterrupted runs presenting the same programme in British television history. During that time, he interviewed members of the royal family, prim...

Tickets gives you entry to : 10.00am Geraldine Roberts 11.30am Piers Blofeld 2.00pm Lucy Hughes-Hallett 3.30pm Scarlett Thomas 5.00pm Louis de Bernieres

Geraldine Roberts is an author and a historian specialising in the Regency era. Her work centres on the achievements of real women in this period, and the dynamics within their marriages. She is the author of “The Angel and the Cad”, which published in 2015. When it came to Charles and Mary Bagot, the gossips of Regency England had more than their fill. The marriage, initially the toast of high s...

Piers Blofeld is a literary agent & has worked in publishing for the whole of his career. A regular commentator on the mysteries of the book business, he is a columnist for Writing Magazine. Born & bred in Norfolk, his surname made it all but inevitable he would nurture a fascination with supervillainy and spying. “Master of Lies” is his first book. For the last two years of WW2, as Anthony Blunt ...

Lucy Hughes-Hallett is a biographer, cultural historian & novelist whose books have won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize, the Costa Biography of the Year Award, the Plutarch Prize & the Biographers Club Award for an Exceptional Contribution to Biography. Her book on Gabriele d’Annunzio, “The Pike”, was named in the Sunday Times as ‘the biography of the decade’. Her most recent book ...

Scarlett Thomas was born in London. She is the author of highly acclaimed contemporary cult novels including “The End of Mr. Y”, which was longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction; “Oligarchy”; “The Seed Collectors”; “PopCo”; “The Sleepwalkers”; and the Worldquake series of middle grade books. Her novels have sold over half a million copies worldwide & been translated into 26 language...

Louis de Bernières, born in 1954, is a British writer, poet and musician who has written several novels, collections of poetry, and albums of his own songs. He has a degree in philosophy from Manchester University, a PGCE from Leicester Polytechnic, and a master’s degree from London. He performs concerts of his own poetry and songs. He has had many jobs, including army cadet, teacher, motorcycle m...

Join Edwyrdian Tales beside the glittering lights of the Christmas Tree for three haunting ghost stories of the season. This year our night of festive spirits features terrors from classic authors of the age… H.R. Wakefield, Algernon Blackwood and an original tale from the pen of our storyteller. In “Lucky’s Grove” a family discover the dangers of bringing in the wrong Christmas Tree for their ce...

Join Southwold Arts Centre for a one-of-a-kind evening of Musical Theatre marvelousness. Second in a series of musical events produced by the Arts Centre, this evening will cycle through some old-time classics and some newer favourites in a celebration of song and dance. This time, the theme is Miscast. The only time you'll see a tenor Galinda or soprano Fiyero - prepare to have your horizons broa...

Step back into the golden glow of the sixties with Keep On Running – a spectacular live theatre event celebrating the music that changed everything. This joyful production takes you on an unforgettable journey through a decade that transformed popular culture, from the raw excitement of the early beat boom, born in smoky clubs and late-night cellar venues, to the colourful, mind-expanding sounds o...