You can join the Suffolk Book League at any of our meetings, via this website or by post. Although you are not required to be a member in order to attend our events, membership ensures that you receive the quarterly newsletter Book Talk as well as reduced price entry and the ability to purchase advance tickets.

SBL is proud to sponsor Literary Suffolk, a new booklet showcasing Suffolk's literary heritage.

Our full 2009 programme is available from our Meetings page.

Our Links page promotes other local literary events and organisations. We are grateful to the following for their support: The Ipswich Institute, Gotelee and Goldsmith Solicitors and the Aldeburgh Bookshop.

Wednesday 9 September 2009
Jules Pretty
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street

Jules Pretty has just completed The Luminous Coast about memory, place and identity along the coasts of East Anglia. He is a professor at the University of Essex, and writes on agriculture.