Felicity Cloake & Claire Cohen: Dogs and Dinners

What if the recipe for a better life began with a badly behaved dog?

Multi award-winning food writer Felicity Cloake joins journalist and author Claire Cohen to discuss Felicity’s fiction debut The Underdog – a funny, tender and sharply observed novel about food, friendship, reinvention and unexpected companionship.

Best known for The Guardian’s much-loved “How to Cook the Perfect…” series and her bestselling culinary adventures, Cloake brings all her trademark wit, warmth and appetite to fiction for the first time.

Expect lively conversation, plenty of laughs and reflections on cooking, loneliness, modern life and why sharing food with other humans – and occasionally your dog – can change everything.

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Events last one hour unless otherwise stated, followed by a book signing in The Clearing. Our official bookseller is Waterstones.

Folkestone Book Festival is our annual celebration of stories, ideas and conversation by the sea. Curated by novelist Sophie Haydock (The Flames, Madame Matisse), this year’s festival brings together more than 60 events across two weeks, welcoming world-class writers, thinkers and storytellers to Folkestone.

Discover another event, browse the bookshop, explore Folkestone’s vibrant arts scene, independent cafés, bars and galleries, and share the experience with a friend. The best festivals are as much about the conversations between events as those on stage.

The Festival is part of Folkestone is a Library, our ambitious town-wide celebration of reading, writing and storytelling, helping make Folkestone one of the UK’s most exciting literary destinations.

We believe great conversations should be for everyone, which is why every event includes a £5 Cost of Living Ticket, available with no questions asked.

Please help us spread the word. Together, we’re building a thriving community of readers, writers and curious minds.

Folkestone Book Festival is proudly supported by Eurotunnel, Canterbury Christ Church University, Holiday Extras, and the Friends of Folkestone Book Festival. Creative Folkestone is supported by Arts Council England, Folkestone & Hythe District Council and Saga. Founding Funder The Roger De Haan Charitable Trust.