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15<br />
Friday<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 />
Alan Bissett, Des Dillon<br />
& Anne Donovan<br />
WAKE UP TO WORDS<br />
10.15am I Highland Park Spiegeltent I £9.00 £7.00<br />
A super-energising start to the day with three spirited Scottish authors.<br />
Anne Donovan, shortlisted <strong>for</strong> the Orange and Whitbread Prizes <strong>for</strong> Buddha<br />
Da, has a life-affirming new novel in Being Emily. Multi-talented Des Dillon’s<br />
My Epileptic Lurcher will have you weeping with laughter and emotion, while<br />
Alan Bissett is equally full of exuberance, optimism and style.<br />
Free coffee and pastries. Sponsored by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters<br />
David Andress & Adam Nicolson<br />
HISTORY<br />
10.30am I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Pivotal moments in Western civilization brilliantly explored. The prolific Adam<br />
Nicolson looks in Earls of Paradise at the mighty Earls of Pembroke as a<br />
sixteenth century country shifted inexorably away from the medieval. In 1789<br />
David Andress shows a more radical world shift: revolution in the air, the Rights<br />
of Man, a new global order and the men who held the future in their hands.<br />
Chaired by Allan Little.<br />
James Fergusson<br />
& Sean Rayment<br />
EAST AND WEST<br />
11.00am I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Afghanistan remains intractable, British troops embroiled in a seemingly<br />
unwinnable conflict of complex origin and uncertain purpose. These<br />
accounts are from the front line, distinguished journalists bringing<br />
testimonies from the soldiers themselves in the killing zones of Helmand –<br />
and asking questions about the nature and future of this war.<br />
Contracts: the Fine Print<br />
WRITING WORKSHOP<br />
11.00am – 12.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £12.00 £10.00<br />
literature<br />
fiction<br />
history<br />
politics<br />
workshop<br />
Elizabeth Haylett Clark and Anna Ganley from the Society of Authors,<br />
unpick and offer advice on the finer points of modern publishing contracts.<br />
Bring your questions, doubts and contracts! (Maximum 20 places)<br />
Anne Enright<br />
MEET THE AUTHOR<br />
11.30am I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
The Man Booker Prize winner, one of the finest of Irish writers, has<br />
deservedly won legions of new fans since her triumph last autumn. Her new<br />
stories, Taking Pictures, show her at her outstanding, subversive best: shocks<br />
of recognition in vivid, sharp prose, the travails of women and families, nailing<br />
the distance between messy lives and dreams.<br />
Supported by the Hawthornden Literary Retreat<br />
A BOOKCASE EVENT<br />
Ben Crystal<br />
SHAKESPEARE REVEALED<br />
12 noon I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Shakespearean actor Ben Crystal presents Shakespeare on Toast, a<br />
breathtaking per<strong>for</strong>mance capturing all the life and wonderful language<br />
of the Bard, presenting him as never seen be<strong>for</strong>e! Shakespeare has never<br />
been so real or relevant.<br />
Ben Goldacre & David McFarland<br />
POPULAR SCIENCE<br />
12.30pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
An invigorating session on the pseudo-scientific nonsense peddled to us by<br />
popular culture as well as philosophical questions about alien minds and<br />
artificial intelligence. Ben Goldacre pens the Bad Science column in the<br />
Guardian, demolishing spurious ‘evidence’. David McFarland asks why and<br />
how we ascribe human emotions to animals, and whether robots can feel guilt.<br />
Andrew O’Hagan<br />
THE OPEN UNIVERSITY SERIES<br />
1.30pm I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
One of the most prodigiously gifted writers of his generation, Andrew<br />
O’ Hagan is a magnificently intelligent essayist, novelist, critic – and<br />
mesmerising speaker. The Atlantic Ocean collects his reportage on the<br />
changing relationship between a declining Britain and a rising America<br />
– filled with personal insight and documentary witness, endlessly<br />
thought-provoking. Chaired by Magnus Linklater.<br />
Stefan Collini & Peter Conrad<br />
SOCIETY AND CULTURE<br />
2.00pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
BSL<br />
fiction<br />
literature<br />
science<br />
nations<br />
culture<br />
Join two leading commentators in a far-reaching discussion about criticism,<br />
creativity and culture. Stefan Collini explores the role of the critic in the<br />
literary and intellectual culture of Britain. Peter Conrad traces the different<br />
concepts of creation and creativity in Western civilization, touching upon<br />
religion, art, opera, film, psychology and physics.<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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