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Friday 15 August events <strong>for</strong> adults continued<br />
Books, Blogging and the Internet<br />
WRITING WORKSHOP<br />
2.00pm – 3.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £12.00 £10.00<br />
How can writers best use the internet to produce and promote their work<br />
Ex-Sunday Times journalist Helen Fowler, who secured her first book deal<br />
after publishers stumbled on her popular blog (www.motheratlarge.com),<br />
guides you through social networking, turning blogs into books and the<br />
benefits of an online presence. (Maximum 20 places)<br />
Linn Ullmann<br />
& Jan Kjaerstad<br />
WRITERS OF THE WORLD<br />
2.30pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Two of the finest Norwegian novelists. The superb Linn Ullmann (daughter<br />
of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann) explores adolescent coming-of-age<br />
on a remote island in her brand new A Blessed Child. Jan Kjaerstad’s<br />
international bestselling trilogy sweeps energetically through a life, a<br />
nation and the latter half of the twentieth century. Intelligence and insight<br />
guaranteed.<br />
Mark Cocker<br />
& Esther Woolfson<br />
NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT<br />
3.30pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
workshop<br />
world writing<br />
environment<br />
A love song to birds. Award-winning Scottish story writer Esther Woolfson<br />
and acclaimed nature author Mark Cocker, whose book Crow Country<br />
is nominated <strong>for</strong> the Samuel Johnson Prize <strong>for</strong> Non-fiction, share a<br />
passion <strong>for</strong> crows and rooks – their complex intelligence, their empathy,<br />
their raucous song, their place in our landscapes and ecology, the<br />
superstition which attaches to them. You will never look at these birds<br />
the same way again.<br />
Tibor Fischer<br />
FINE FICTION<br />
4.00pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
A wonderful hour of comic writing. Award-winning author Tibor Fischer is<br />
back with his sixth novel. In Good to be God, his protagonist, tired of failure,<br />
runs away to America and creates a new life and identity <strong>for</strong> himself as<br />
someone much more powerful and successful: God.<br />
Tony Black & Jonny Glynn<br />
FIRST FICTION<br />
4.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £6.00 £4.00<br />
Award-winning Edinburgh journalist Tony Black’s first novel Paying For It<br />
follows washed-up hack-turned-investigator Gus Dury as he uncovers a<br />
seedy vice ring linked to Eastern European people smugglers. Jonny Glynn’s<br />
The Seven Days of Peter Crumb is a dark and brilliant debut about a serial<br />
killer’s last week on earth.<br />
New Kolkata Writing<br />
WRITERS OF THE WORLD<br />
5.00pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Following the sell-out success of our Bengali authors’ visit last summer,<br />
we are delighted to welcome to the festival some more of West Bengal’s<br />
finest writers. Come and connect with Kolkata and discover a new generation<br />
of Asian writing, courtesy of the British Council, featuring Srijato,<br />
Rimi B Chatterjee and Alka Saraogi.<br />
A BOOKCASE EVENT<br />
Inclusion and Achievement<br />
CHILDREN AND EDUCATION<br />
5.00pm I RBS Corner Theatre I £5.00<br />
fiction<br />
crime<br />
world writing<br />
BSL<br />
society<br />
Teacher, professor, researcher and now Director of the Inclusive Practice<br />
Project, Martyn Rouse is one of the leading thinkers on inclusion and special<br />
educational needs in Britain. Find out about education strategy and the<br />
development of socially inclusive and supportive programmes in schools<br />
from an expert in the field.<br />
Fiction, poetry, biography,<br />
history – it’s all here!<br />
The finest novelists, award-winning poets, chroniclers of lives,<br />
insightful historians, crime and cooking, the best business<br />
writers, intrepid explorers, writers on religion, culture, nature,<br />
theatre and music – they are all here.<br />
The aid industry and the AIDS industry, the troubles of Northern<br />
Ireland and the travails of Africa – there is so much richness in<br />
our fullest programme ever. We have made many paths <strong>for</strong> you<br />
to follow, themes and strands – or simply pick your own journey<br />
through the names and subjects which catch your fancy. Mix the<br />
much-loved with the as yet undiscovered – make your own<br />
festival of the mind.<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 />
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