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Monday 11 August events <strong>for</strong> adults continued<br />
Changing Climate,<br />
Changing World<br />
THE ENVIRONMENT SERIES<br />
7.00pm – 8.15pm I Highland Park Spiegeltent I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Come and join the discussion about the profound moral shift which may<br />
be required be<strong>for</strong>e we can really address the threat of climate change.<br />
Environment campaigner Alastair McIntosh and Professor of Ethics<br />
Michael Northcott argue that the cult of consumerism has to end be<strong>for</strong>e<br />
we can mend our broken world.<br />
Yiyun Li<br />
SCOTTISH PEN LECTURE<br />
7.00pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Selected last year as a Granta Best Young American Novelist, Yiyun Li has<br />
taken the international literary world by storm with her dazzling debut<br />
collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. These mesmerising stories offer<br />
a portrait of modern China facing up to a history of repression and guilt.<br />
She talks about her writing and the challenges of being a writer in exile.<br />
The Music of Language<br />
POETRY AND MUSIC<br />
7.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £6.00 £4.00<br />
Thomas A Clark from Fife and Lise Sinclair from Fair Isle are joined by<br />
Nordic poets and musicians in a session that draws on their residency at<br />
Crear, making music and poems together. The fascinating sounds of<br />
different languages and different instruments resonate here.<br />
Presented by Literature Across Frontiers<br />
in association with the Scottish Poetry Library<br />
environment<br />
world writing<br />
culture<br />
Christopher Rush<br />
FINE FICTION<br />
8.30pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Sir Ben Kingsley is just one of the admirers of this leading Scottish writer’s<br />
remarkable new novel on Shakespeare – he has bought the film rights.<br />
A departure from his previous territory recalling his upbringing in the<br />
East Neuk of Fife, Christopher Rush’s Will has all his trademark passion<br />
<strong>for</strong> language – and he reads and speaks wonderfully too.<br />
Ted Jones & Nicholas Murray<br />
TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE<br />
8.30pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Travel truly does broaden the mind. Ted Jones’s The French Riviera:<br />
A Literary Guide <strong>for</strong> Travellers reveals the many great writers who have<br />
been inspired by that fabled coast, including Graham Greene, Robert Louis<br />
Stevenson and more. Nicholas Murray’s A Corkscrew Is Most Useful looks<br />
at the intrepid travellers of the Empire: Victorians setting out undaunted<br />
across an as yet unexplored world.<br />
Spiegelbar<br />
MUSIC<br />
From 9.00pm I Highland Park Spiegeltent I Free – open to all<br />
Come and enjoy a relaxing drink with live music in our atmospheric<br />
travelling ballroom. A great place to end your festival day. The band<br />
line-up is available from the In<strong>for</strong>mation Desk in the Entrance Tent.<br />
Sponsored by Highland Park<br />
fiction<br />
travel<br />
A L Kennedy<br />
COMEDY AND FICTION<br />
8.00pm I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Winner of Britain’s most prestigious awards <strong>for</strong> her breathtaking fiction,<br />
A L Kennedy is also increasingly renowned as a stand-up comic. Here in<br />
a brand new special monologue, her black, hilarious wit ranges over the<br />
culture<br />
many absurdities of a writer’s existence with dazzling humour and brilliance.<br />
You’ll never look at an author the same way again.<br />
Nations Unlimited<br />
One of the most important of our over-arching themes is our deep look<br />
into the future of nation states – a matter which affects every one of us.<br />
The recent influx of Polish and other Eastern European populations into<br />
Britain as the European Union expands; the close and complex relationship<br />
between Britain and the USA; the shifting balance of global power towards<br />
fast-developing new nations; the continuing repercussions of the break up<br />
of the old Soviet Union – all of these issues and more, defining our future and<br />
that of our children, are examined in our festival by world experts. Look out<br />
especially <strong>for</strong> our Focus on China, part of China Now in Scotland, continuing<br />
our examination of the stunning explosion of economic and cultural growth<br />
of that vast nation, coming to a head in this year of the Beijing Olympics.<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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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
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