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Sunday 10 August events <strong>for</strong> adults continued<br />
fiction<br />
Amnesty International<br />
society Karen Joy Fowler<br />
Imprisoned Writers Series<br />
& Maggie O’Farrell<br />
8 EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 9 – 25 August 2008<br />
RIGHT TO PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY & ASSOCIATION<br />
5.30pm – 6.15pm I Peppers Theatre<br />
Free: Tickets available from the Box Office on the day of the event<br />
Our daily free readings in solidarity with writers facing persecution <strong>for</strong> their<br />
thoughts and words. Today: The right to <strong>for</strong>m a trade union is denied to millions,<br />
including the writers we hear from this afternoon. Our featured readers include<br />
Maggie O’Farrell.<br />
FINE FICTION<br />
7.00pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
A glorious double bill of popular literary fiction. We are delighted to welcome<br />
from the States Karen Joy Fowler, whose The Jane Austen Book Club was a<br />
worldwide bestseller and film. Her brand new novel looks at a young woman<br />
moving to Cali<strong>for</strong>nia to investigate her secretive crime-writer godmother.<br />
Maggie O’Farrell also looks at family secrets in her acclaimed fiction.<br />
Mick Inkpen<br />
THE ART OF ILLUSTRATING<br />
5.30pm – 7.00pm I RBS Workshop Tent I £12.00 £10.00<br />
masterclass Nury Vittachi<br />
WRITERS OF THE WORLD<br />
7.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £6.00 £4.00<br />
world writing<br />
Mick Inkpen’s distinct illustration style is exemplified by his beautifully<br />
rendered children’s book creations Kipper and Wibbly Pig. This is a brilliant<br />
opportunity to learn from a hugely successful and talented illustrator of<br />
children’s books; gain a unique insight into the balance between word and<br />
picture, and the importance of white space. (Maximum 20 places)<br />
Writer and stand-up comedian Nury Vittachi is Hong Kong’s most popular<br />
author writing in English and was a huge hit at last year’s festival. His<br />
delightful and original series The Feng Shui Detective puts a whole new slant<br />
on East-West relationships as investigator CF Wong is lumbered with a<br />
loud-mouthed Australian sidekick. Expect crafty plotting, quirky humour<br />
and Asian philosophy.<br />
Preeta Samarasan<br />
world writing<br />
Richard Holloway<br />
philosophy<br />
& Yasmina Traboulsi<br />
MATTERS OF THE MIND<br />
WRITERS OF THE WORLD<br />
8.00pm I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
6.00pm I Writers’ Retreat I £6.00 £4.00<br />
Who better to open our philosophy, psychology and ethics series than the<br />
Stunningly rich and beautifully realised debut novels from Malaysia and Brazil.<br />
<strong>for</strong>mer Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard Holloway, one of the most respected<br />
Preeta Samarasan’s Evening Is The Whole Day is a magical, sweeping portrait<br />
thinkers in the land Between The Monster and The Saint: Reflections on<br />
of generations of a Malaysian family; Yasmina Traboulsi’s Bahia Blues superbly<br />
the Human Condition is a major new enquiry into how humans can find their<br />
conjures the voices of an impoverished community living in the old quarter of<br />
moral place on our endangered earth.<br />
Salvador da Bahia.<br />
Laura Marney & Pauline McLynn fiction<br />
Tariq Ali<br />
nations<br />
COMEDY AND FICTION<br />
EAST AND WEST<br />
8.30pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
6.30pm I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Effervescent comedy, a tonic <strong>for</strong> the brain. Irish writer and actor Pauline<br />
One of the most impassioned and eloquent orators and thinkers of them all, McLynn, famed <strong>for</strong> playing Mrs Doyle in the TV series Father Ted, brings acute<br />
Tariq Ali’s events are unmissable. As highlighted in his memoir of the Sixties, observation of human foibles to her latest novel Bright Lights and Promises.<br />
Streetfighting Years, South America has had a great impact on Tariq Ali’s life. Scot Laura Marney’s wonderfully humorous My Best Friend Has Issues will win<br />
In Pirates of the Caribbean, he revisits the continent and examines the new her yet more devoted fans.<br />
political rise of countries such as Venezuela and Chile, and analyses the<br />
social and cultural challenges facing this vast land. Chaired by Ruth Wishart.<br />
John Gimlette<br />
travel<br />
Simon Garfield<br />
LIVED LIVES<br />
6.45pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
biography TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE<br />
8.30pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
A chance encounter with an American veteran led award-winning travel<br />
writer John Gimlette on an astonishing journey which showed how Europe<br />
A lovely, engrossing memoir of unfulfilled longing. Simon Garfield’s bestselling<br />
has changed since the Second World War. Panther Soup travels through<br />
Mass Observation trilogy revealed the lives of others; now he looks at his own,<br />
spectacular landscapes, explores old camps, delves into the murky<br />
including his yearning boyhood passion <strong>for</strong> stamp collecting, a symbol of male<br />
subculture of the war, and visits towns still reeling from the trauma.<br />
obsession and desire.<br />
Alternative Medicine<br />
science Spiegelbar<br />
MEDICINE AND SOCIETY<br />
MUSIC<br />
From 9.00pm I Highland Park Spiegeltent I Free – open to all<br />
7.00pm – 8.15pm I Highland Park Spiegeltent I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Come and enjoy a relaxing drink with live music in our atmospheric travelling<br />
Come and join in the discussion as three experts consider alternative<br />
ballroom. A great place to end your festival day. The band line-up is available<br />
medicine. Is it just an expensive placebo <strong>for</strong> the gullible middle class<br />
from the In<strong>for</strong>mation Desk in the Entrance Tent.<br />
What is the actual advantage over orthodox medicine Scientist Simon<br />
Singh assesses the evidence, Roberta Bivins looks at the long history Sponsored by Highland Park<br />
of the search <strong>for</strong> alternative approaches and Rose Shapiro in Suckers<br />
launches a polemical attack.<br />
Book now at www.edbookfest.co.uk or 0845 373 5888 <strong>See</strong> <strong>page</strong> <strong>74</strong> / <strong>75</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>booking</strong> <strong>details</strong><br />
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EVENTS ARE 1 HOUR LONG UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED & TAKE PLACE IN CHARLOTTE SQUARE GARDENS
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