Listing of selected articles

A boat that was built for Swallows and Amazons author Arthur Ransome is being given new life in Suffolk, as Catherine Larner explains.

The things we collect tell the story of our life and loves. Author Julia Blackburn and her friend and neighbour, artist Tessa Newcomb, decided to explore the objects in Julia's Suffolk village home.

Marriage and moving to Helmingham as a young woman made Xa Tollemache a gardener and then an award-winning designer. Now she tells the story of how she transformed Helmingham's gardens, as well as many others, in a beautiful first book.

Slaughter in Southwold says it all. If you love a good murder mystery you won't want to miss this festival dedicated to crime writing. Meet the authors, learn their secrets...just don't expect them to tell you the whole story.

BBC journalist and broadcaster Justin Webb kept the truth about his real father a secret for most of his life. Now he reveals much about his painful 1970s childhood in a new book.

Old World Ear II diaries and documents languishing in Julia Jones' attic revealed that her father's passion for sailing was rather more than just a weekend hobby.

Most of us have struggled to find a present for the person who seems to have everything. Imagine finding something for the Queen. Ingeniously, a group of people have made a gift for the monarch...and for the people of Suffolk too.

Robert Simper has spent his life writing about boats and saving working vessels of the Thames estuary.

Lizzie Damilola Blackburn talks to Catherine Larner about breaking into commercial fiction with a Christian protagonist

Artist and book illustrator Angela Harding has a clinker sailing yacht and a love of the wilder coast.

When Vera Morris took up writing after a long career in teaching, she turned to the genre she knows and loves best - crime. Her stories about a 1970s detective agency operating on the Suffolk coast have won her a loyal following.

Printmaker Angela Harding's beautiful and evocative illustrations of the natural world, inspired by annual sailing trips around Suffolk's coast and rivers, are favourite choices for everything from book covers to journals, calendars and tea towels.

Anna Greenland is a rising star in the organise grow-your-own firmament, although she admits her life currently is more 'Grand Designs' than 'Gardeners' World'.

All I want for Christmas...is a really good book. Catherine Larner asked some local book lovers for their choice of books to give and receive.

Ghostly figures, strange messages, dark secrets, disappearing keys and the impending arrival of Halleys Comet...it's all within the gripping tales of award-winning historical fiction writer, AM Howell.