Hello all! I am back! Welcome to the "new normal" from me. It has been more than four months since I have last written a blog post of any kind, but I finally have the motivation to write about something again - and in this blog post, we are going back to books and authors! Let's get going on this little adventure, starting off with a run-through of the Ipswich Book Festival. Ipswich Book Festival (4th and 5th of October 2025) As is usual in my blog posts, I would like to start off by giving out some background information about the festival. So, the Ipswich Book Festival was a new book convention that was run to gather together authors, academics and readers and share their experiences about poetry, prose fiction and the more mundane matters that were happening in between. The Ipswich Book Festival ran in a number of different locations across Ipswich from the 3rd to the 5th of October. Nearly all of the events were ticketed, with the price to attend many events ranging ...