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A Weekend of Festivals – Some Shots from the Felixstowe and Essex Book Festivals June 2025

Posted: July 8th, 2025 | No Comments »
Chatting Wallis in China with Essex Book Festival Director Ros Green on the last (& all history) day for 2025 at Layer Marney Tower. Always a sprawling, varied, brilliant festival….
In conversation with Georgy Jamieson at the Felixstowe Book Festival in the Palm Court at Harvest House on the seafront (where Wallis ate strawberries and cream while awaiting her divorce from Ernest Simpson) – what a lovely engaged audience

Book festivals take you to the most amazing places – Layer Marney Tower (England’s tallest Tudor Gatehouse, c.1523) hosted the Essex Book Festival History Books day….

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