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13<br />
Wednesday<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 lovely<br />
Writers’ Retreat in the trees. A story, or poetry – a literary surprise each day.<br />
Check the screen in the Entrance Tent to find out who will be reading today.<br />
Philip Hensher & Helen Walsh<br />
WAKE UP TO WORDS<br />
10.15am I Highland Park Spiegeltent I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Ordinary family lives compassionately revealed in two wonderful novels of<br />
late twentieth century Britain. Philip Hensher, one of Granta’s Best of Young<br />
British Novelists, begins his survey of a changing country in Sheffield in 19<strong>74</strong>.<br />
Helen Walsh, hugely praised <strong>for</strong> her debut Brass, sets her new tale of a<br />
mixed race family in Warrington in 19<strong>75</strong>. Involving and un<strong>for</strong>gettable.<br />
Free coffee and pastries. Sponsored by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters<br />
Harriet Harvey Wood<br />
& Raymond Tallis<br />
MATTERS OF THE MIND<br />
10.30am I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
What makes us who we are as individuals Memory is a building block of<br />
our identities – Harriet Harvey Wood’s enthralling anthology on the subject<br />
ranges through literature and many other disciplines. Philosopher and<br />
medical professor Raymond Tallis takes us on a breathtakingly brilliant<br />
tour of our heads, in search of consciousness.<br />
Kate Clanchy<br />
nations<br />
& Kapka Kassabova<br />
NATIONS UNLIMITED<br />
11.00am I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Eastern Europe comes to life in these two absorbing accounts, both by<br />
acclaimed poets here writing brilliantly perceptive memoirs. Kate Clanchy<br />
illuminates the life of a Kosovan refugee, escaped from a brutal background<br />
into the complexities of contemporary London; Kapka Kassabova delves<br />
into the idiosyncrasies of her homeland of Bulgaria.<br />
Dealing with Rejection<br />
WRITING WORKSHOP<br />
11.00am – 12.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £12.00 £10.00<br />
literature<br />
fiction<br />
philosophy<br />
workshop<br />
One of the toughest elements to being a writer is having your work rejected.<br />
This workshop is a look at key practical and emotional techniques to help<br />
you to deal with rejection. With author, playwright and psychotherapist,<br />
Caroline Dun<strong>for</strong>d. (Maximum 25 places)<br />
Simon Sebag Montefiore<br />
MEET THE AUTHOR<br />
11.30am I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
fiction<br />
The multi award-winning historian and television presenter here presents<br />
his vast knowledge of Russia in the <strong>for</strong>m of a novel. His work on Stalin is<br />
revered <strong>for</strong> its groundbreaking scholarship; he now goes <strong>for</strong> a rich narrative<br />
sweep in Sashenka, illuminating the rise and terrible price of communism<br />
through one woman’s dramatic story.<br />
Supported by the Hawthornden Literary Retreat<br />
Charles Nicholl<br />
SHAKESPEARE REVEALED<br />
12 noon I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Charles Nicholl’s The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street has been<br />
massively acclaimed <strong>for</strong> its insight into overlooked aspects of the Bard’s<br />
brilliant life. Taking his starting point from the moment in history that<br />
Shakespeare’s words were recorded, Nicholl builds an intricate picture<br />
of Shakespeare at <strong>for</strong>ty and a fascinating portrait of Jacobean society.<br />
history<br />
Andrew Mawson<br />
BUSINESS MATTERS<br />
12.30pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Social enterprise is growing fast. Lord Mawson, once described as the<br />
‘Richard Branson of the social sector’, and the UK’s leading social<br />
entrepreneur, shows how the application of business ideas to social<br />
society<br />
problems can produce powerful results – practical, creative and successful.<br />
He talks of his inspiring work with Norman Drummond.<br />
Supported by the Scottish Social Enterprise Coalition<br />
Patrick Cockburn,<br />
politics<br />
Jonathan Steele & Hilary Synnott<br />
EAST AND WEST<br />
1.30pm I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Iraq, five years on. Shocking testimony from two of the most admired<br />
correspondents in the field and the most senior British diplomat in Basra.<br />
Jonathan Steele powerfully analyses why the occupation was doomed from<br />
the start. Patrick Cockburn documents the chilling rise of Muqtada al-Sadr<br />
in the civil war; and Sir Hilary Synnott gives a first-hand account of the<br />
absurdities and chaos of the Coalition. Chaired by Ruth Wishart.<br />
Helen Rappaport & Anthony Read history<br />
FOCUS ON RUSSIA<br />
2.00pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Our second Russian event of the day, focusing on the tumultuous events<br />
of the Bolshevik Revolution. Helen Rappaport’s Ekaterinburg: The Last Days<br />
of the Romanovs brings a dramatic new perspective to the massacre of the<br />
Tsar’s family; while Anthony Read’s The World On Fire looks at the battle<br />
against Bolshevism in 1919, ideology attacking the West.<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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