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Promoting the never-ending
joy of books and reading in Suffolk

Our Goal, Vision & Commitment

An annual programme of speakers and other events

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Upcoming Events

  • Matt Howard
    Wed 05 Jul
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    05 Jul, 19:30
    Ipswich Institute, 15 Tavern St, Ipswich IP1 3AA, UK
    Come and meet Matt Howard who has been poet in residence at the Cambridge Conservation Initiative and The Wordsworth Trust and after 11 years working for the RSPB, is now the Douglas Caster Poetry Fellow at the University of Leeds.
  • Sophie Haydock
    Wed 13 Sept
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    13 Sept, 19:30
    Ipswich Institute, 15 Tavern St, Ipswich IP1 3AA, UK
    Sophie Haydock will talk about The Flames. (2022). Her debut novel won the Impress Prize for New Writers. It is about the four ‘muses’ who posed for the controversial artist Egon Schiele.
  • Diana Souhami
    Thu 05 Oct
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    05 Oct, 19:30
    Ipswich, 15 Tavern St, Ipswich IP1 3AA, UK
    Diana Souhami will discuss No Modernism without Lesbians (2020), winner of the 2021 Polari Prize and a Sunday Times Book of the Year.
  • Simon Loxley
    Wed 01 Nov
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    01 Nov, 19:30
    Ipswich Institute, 15 Tavern St, Ipswich IP1 3AA, UK
    Simon Loxley will introduce us to his book, A Geography of Horror: the Ghost Stories of M. R. James and the Suffolk Landscape.
  • Jessie Greengrass
    Wed 06 Dec
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    06 Dec, 19:30
    Ipswich Institute, 15 Tavern St, Ipswich IP1 3AA, UK
    Come and meet Jessie Greengrass whose recent novel The High House, is about the fragilities and strengths of family in the face of the climate crisis.

To us, reading matters

Suffolk Book League is a registered charity that has encouraged a love of reading since 1982 and continues to support a range of local initiatives across the county. Aside from bringing a range of popular and distinguished writers to Suffolk, we have held short story competitions, donated books to hospital and hospice libraries, supported literacy groups and partner events, including the Suffolk Libraries School Book Mastermind competition.

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In May 2019 the novelist Tessa Hadley appeared  at one of our regular monthly events. Afterwards she commented:

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‘So great to remember that there are groups like your Book League out there,  full of such authentic love for literature, so well-read and with such sophisticated understanding. Of course that’s who we writers are addressing, always. But so reassuring to meet that audience in person.’

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