See page 74 / 75 for booking details
See page 74 / 75 for booking details
See page 74 / 75 for booking details
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
Thursday 14 August events <strong>for</strong> adults continued<br />
Marketing and Promoting<br />
Yourself as a Writer<br />
WRITING WORKSHOP<br />
2.00pm – 3.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £12.00 £10.00<br />
Alison Baverstock is a <strong>for</strong>mer publisher who now writes about author<br />
marketing. A superb and highly experienced tutor, she offers a really<br />
practical session on how to promote yourself as a writer. (Maximum<br />
20 places)<br />
Adrian Levy<br />
& Catherine Scott-Clark<br />
with Clare Lockhart<br />
NATIONS UNLIMITED<br />
2.30pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Failed states – unstable, war-prone, fomenting terrorism and poverty<br />
– are a major problem <strong>for</strong> the world. Clare Lockhart powerfully suggests<br />
that the old autonomous nation-state model does not match the realities<br />
of a shifting, globalised world. Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark<br />
look at one dangerously unstable state, Pakistan – and how the West has<br />
covertly enabled its nuclear capacity, with terrifying consequences.<br />
Agnes Owens in Conversation<br />
with James Kelman<br />
MEET THE AUTHOR<br />
3.30pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
One of the most distinctive voices in Scottish literature, Agnes Owens’s darkly<br />
humorous stories uncover ordinary working class lives poised between farce<br />
and tragedy. Now in her eighties a new complete collection shows her<br />
remarkable talent. In conversation with a great admirer and champion of<br />
her work, James Kelman.<br />
Hamish Brown<br />
& Greg Mortenson<br />
TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE<br />
4.00pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
workshop<br />
nations<br />
fiction<br />
travel<br />
An inspiring hour with two remarkable men who engage with remote<br />
mountain communities. Scottish climber and adventurer Hamish Brown has<br />
returned to the Berber peoples of the Atlas mountains annually since 1965.<br />
American mountaineer Greg Mortenson recounts how a failed attempt to<br />
climb K2 led him to build schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan.<br />
G W Dahlquist<br />
& Thomas Glavinic<br />
WRITERS OF THE WORLD<br />
4.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £6.00 £4.00<br />
A dark delicious treat. American novelist G W Dahlquist enthralled readers<br />
and reviewers with The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, a vivid fantastic<br />
adventure. He now follows it with The Dark Volume, equally alluring and<br />
unconventional. Austrian Thomas Glavinic’s Night Work is an eerily<br />
compulsive philosophical mystery about a man who wakes entirely alone<br />
– the last living being on the planet.<br />
Sergio Della Sala<br />
SCIENCE AND EDUCATION<br />
5.00pm I RBS Corner Theatre I £5.00<br />
A fascinating speaker, the much-admired Professor of Human Cognitive<br />
Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh discusses the use and misuse<br />
of neuroscience in education. An engaging and accessible journey into the<br />
inner workings of the human brain, focusing on the unique relationship<br />
between knowledge, learning and understanding. A sell-out at last year’s<br />
Book Festival, be sure to book tickets early!<br />
Amnesty International<br />
Imprisoned Writers Series<br />
RIGHT TO ASYLUM<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: Writers driven into exile because of their political<br />
or religious opinions struggle to express themselves in alien surroundings<br />
and in a different language. This afternoon, we hear the work of these writers<br />
read by Book Festival authors including Ziauddin Sardar.<br />
Pascal Mercier<br />
& Ilya Troyanov<br />
WRITERS OF THE WORLD<br />
6.00pm I Writers’ Retreat I £6.00 £4.00<br />
world writing<br />
society<br />
society<br />
world writing<br />
Two magnificently ambitious German bestsellers. Swiss-born Pascal<br />
Mercier’s Night Train to Lisbon has sold over two million copies, telling of a<br />
teacher haunted by an extraordinary Portugese writer and <strong>for</strong>ging his life<br />
anew. Bulgarian-born Ilya Troyanov’s The Collector of Worlds re-imagines<br />
the life of the great Victorian adventurer and scholar Sir Richard Burton,<br />
<strong>for</strong>ging new links with the East.<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 />
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<br />
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 9 – 25 August 2008<br />
23
Change language