It's the beginning of June! And it looks like lovely weather and a bumper month for book events and artistic endeavours in this part of Suffolk.
Tomorrow we've got our delayed May book group meeting in Woodbridge where we'll be discussing 'Drift' by Caryl Lewis. If you haven't already got in touch and plan on coming along, do let me know. I look forward to seeing you there.
At the middle of the month it's the crime writing festival Slaughter in Southwold. You can take a look at the programme here or read my article in 'Suffolk' magazine here.
The following week we'll be discussing 'Eurotrash' by Christian Kracht at the Framlingham Book Group. Scroll down for details on that meeting.
And for the final weekend of the month, it's the Felixstowe Book Festival. I will be there on both the Saturday and Sunday interviewing Elly Griffiths about her new time travel novel, talking to Tim Minshall about manufacturing, Jessica Duchen (more next week about her biography of Myra Hess) and Lucy Hughes-Hallett (scroll down for more details about her book 'The Scapegoat'). I hope I'll see some of you there.
Then on Monday 30 June we're back to our usual slot for the Woodbridge Book Group which will be discussing 'Tiepolo Blue' by James Cahill. Copies of the book will be available at our meeting tomorrow, or let me know if you'd like me to keep one aside for you to collect at another time.
In addition to all this, two of our book group members - Debbi Francis and Kate Laydon - are taking part in Suffolk Open Studios which runs throughout June. The programme with details of all the artists taking part is here.
Lots of dates for the diary, plenty of books to read and lots of inspiring people to meet. Looks like a great month!
Thank you for reading.