See page 74 / 75 for booking details
See page 74 / 75 for booking details
See page 74 / 75 for booking details
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
11<br />
Monday<br />
August<br />
events <strong>for</strong> adults<br />
Ten at Ten<br />
FICTION AND POETRY<br />
10.00am – 10.10am I Writers’ Retreat I Free – book in advance<br />
A short and perfect start to the morning: a ten minute reading, free, in our<br />
lovely Writers’ Retreat in the trees. A story, or poetry – a literary surprise<br />
each day. Check the screen in the Entrance Tent to find out who will be<br />
reading today.<br />
Andrew Crumey & Andrew Greig<br />
WAKE UP TO WORDS<br />
10.15am I Highland Park Spiegeltent I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Two supremely talented writers. Andrew Greig is a poet, mountaineer,<br />
memoirist, novelist. His Romanno Bridge is superb storytelling, spun<br />
around the search <strong>for</strong> the Stone of Destiny. Award-winning Andrew Crumey<br />
incorporates quantum mechanics and general relativity into his fiction<br />
– Sputnik Caledonia is an exuberant tale of childhood, space travel<br />
and telepathy.<br />
Free coffee and pastries. Sponsored by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters<br />
Anna Beer<br />
LIVED LIVES<br />
11.00am I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
John Milton is one of our greatest writers, a cornerstone of literature, but<br />
little is known about him beyond his masterpiece Paradise Lost. 400 years<br />
after his birth, Anna Beer <strong>details</strong> the complexity of Milton’s life, revealing<br />
the many conflicting aspects of his public and private character and<br />
celebrating his magnificent body of literature.<br />
Writing Poetry<br />
POETRY WORKSHOP<br />
11.00am – 12.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £12.00 £10.00<br />
Following Emily Dickinson’s dictum to ‘tell it slant’, award-winning poet<br />
Diana Hendry will draw out your creativity by encouraging you to write<br />
poems about people using a personal possession as a prompt – such as<br />
your mother’s handbag. (Maximum 20 places)<br />
Richard Dawkins<br />
THE TIMES AND<br />
SUNDAY TIMES SCOTLAND EVENT<br />
11.30am I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
literature<br />
fiction<br />
literature<br />
workshop<br />
science<br />
One of the most important figures of our age, brilliant evolutionist, polemical<br />
in his attack upon religion as an explanation of our world, Richard Dawkins<br />
returns undaunted to the fray. Here he talks to Paula Kirby, atheist and<br />
<strong>for</strong>mer Christian.<br />
James McCarthy<br />
environment<br />
& Katherine Swift<br />
NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT<br />
12 noon I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Gardens and gardeners explored. Through her experience of creating a<br />
garden at Morville Hall, Shropshire, Katherine Swift, in a work of great<br />
beauty based on the Medieval Book of Hours, shows how English gardens<br />
have changed over the centuries. James McCarthy tells of one of the<br />
greatest plant hunters, Scot Archibald Menzies, responsible <strong>for</strong> introducing<br />
the monkey puzzle tree to Europe.<br />
Keith Laidler & Kieron O’Hara<br />
HUMAN RIGHTS<br />
12.30pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Security versus liberty. Do we now have no privacy, no control and no<br />
consent Surveillance society is the new norm – our every move, our very<br />
identity tracked through credit cards, mobile phones, computers, even<br />
clothes. Keith Laidler asks if this can be justified; Kieron O’Hara also reveals<br />
the extent and potential of the hypersurveillance affecting every one of us.<br />
Gavin Esler, Allan Little<br />
& Jim Muir in conversation<br />
with Tony Grant<br />
MEDIA AND SOCIETY<br />
1.30pm I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
BBC Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent is essential listening <strong>for</strong> those<br />
seeking top quality reportage from around the world. Now gathered into a<br />
new volume are more dispatches from celebrated reporters, bringing<br />
remarkable stories from the four corners of the earth.<br />
David Erdal & Martin Wishart<br />
THE VALVONA & CROLLA EVENT<br />
2.00pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
The stories behind two hugely successful Scottish businesses. David Erdal<br />
gives an inspiring account of how Loch Fyne Oysters was rescued by employee<br />
ownership to become a leading UK business. Premier chef and food writer<br />
Martin Wishart started his eponymous Michelin-starred Edinburgh restaurant<br />
in 1999; he shares his innovative approach to modern French cuisine.<br />
After Picture Books<br />
WRITING WORKSHOP<br />
2.00pm – 3.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £12.00 £10.00<br />
society<br />
culture<br />
food & drink<br />
workshop<br />
When children move beyond picture books their needs become more<br />
complex, which offers many opportunities and challenges <strong>for</strong> writers.<br />
Linda Strachan, bestselling children’s writer and author of Writing <strong>for</strong><br />
Children, offers practical tips on how to make the most of writing <strong>for</strong><br />
this exciting age group. (Maximum 20 places)<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 />
10<br />
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 9 – 25 August 2008<br />
LATECOMERS WILL NOT BE ADMITTED AFTER THE START OF EVENTS & NO REFUNDS WILL BE GIVEN<br />
EVENTS ARE 1 HOUR LONG UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED & TAKE PLACE IN CHARLOTTE SQUARE GARDENS
Change language