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Friday 15 August events <strong>for</strong> adults continued<br />
Amnesty International<br />
Imprisoned Writers Series<br />
RIGHT TO FREEDOM FROM INTERFERENCE<br />
WITH FAMILY, HOME OR CORRESPONDENCE<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 who are imprisoned, exiled, harassed or<br />
tortured are denied the right to enjoy a normal family life. This afternoon,<br />
we hear the work of these writers read by Book Festival authors<br />
including Stella Duffy.<br />
Adam Foulds<br />
& Jamie McKendrick<br />
POETRY<br />
6.00pm I Writers’ Retreat I £6.00 £4.00<br />
Remarkable work remembering aspects of Empire. Forward Poetry Prize<br />
winning Jamie McKendrick’s Crocodiles and Obelisks searches through the<br />
debris of power; while newcomer Adam Foulds’s The Broken World is a<br />
sequence telling of Britain’s repression of the Kenyan Mau Mau uprising<br />
– astonishing and original.<br />
Bookslam<br />
FICTION, POETRY AND MUSIC<br />
6.15pm – 8.15pm I Highland Park Spiegeltent I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Bookslam has escaped its regular night in West London and come to Scotland<br />
<strong>for</strong> August! The best per<strong>for</strong>mers, cool music – come and relax with a drink in<br />
our opulent Speigeltent as writers mix with musicians in a unique night of<br />
literary entertainment. Featuring, amongst others, leading per<strong>for</strong>mance poet<br />
Patience Agbabi, energetic young Scottish writer Alan Bissett and the wit of<br />
the award-winning Dan Rhodes.<br />
A BOOKCASE EVENT<br />
society<br />
poetry<br />
culture<br />
Matt Frei<br />
THE TURCAN CONNELL EVENT<br />
6.30pm I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
The BBC’s charismatic and award-winning Washington correspondent<br />
unveils the paradoxes of America’s capital: the power and the poverty, the<br />
nations<br />
Daniel Clay, Ross Raisin<br />
& Mark Wernham<br />
FIRST FICTION<br />
7.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £6.00 £4.00<br />
Come and hear three exceptional new voices of our fractured times.<br />
Ross Raisin’s God’s Own Country depicts a misfit Yorkshire teenager on the<br />
Moors with richly idiomatic language. Daniel Clay’s Broken creates a chaotic<br />
working class community, leaving a shattered boy and a girl in a coma.<br />
Mark Wernham’s Martin Martin’s On The Other Side is a skewed, dystopian<br />
vision – hilarious and frightening.<br />
Quintin Jardine<br />
CRIME FICTION<br />
8.00pm I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Firm festival favourite, Quintin Jardine – another one of Scotland’s suspiciously<br />
stupendous crime writers – returns with the latest outing <strong>for</strong> DCC Bob Skinner.<br />
In Aftershock, told with all his mastery and flair, a young woman on a golf<br />
course appears to be the victim of a serial killer. It is all getting very close<br />
to home…<br />
Stories in Stone<br />
LITERATURE AND LANDSCAPE<br />
8.30pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Our beautiful capital is a city built on books, uniquely recognised by UNESCO<br />
as both a World Heritage Site and City of Literature. Take a tour around the<br />
Old and New Towns exploring the literary resonance of Edinburgh’s historic<br />
buildings, streets and spaces, with narrators, exquisite images, discussion and<br />
more. Author and director of the Scottish Storytelling Centre Donald Smith,<br />
and acclaimed Scottish writers Stewart Conn and James Robertson, uncover<br />
the heritage, hidden secrets and literary power of what lies around us.<br />
In association with Edinburgh World Heritage<br />
and Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature<br />
A BOOKCASE EVENT<br />
fiction<br />
Gavin Francis<br />
travel<br />
weapons which could obliterate the world and the teenage shooting sprees, & Francis Spuf<strong>for</strong>d<br />
the microcosm of the contradictions of the USA. Come and meet an THE TOWNHOUSE COLLECTION EVENT<br />
experienced and insightful analyst. Chaired by Allan Little.<br />
8.30pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
The Arctic and Antarctic exert their inexorable attraction in this unmissable<br />
Salley Vickers<br />
fiction event. Edinburgh writer Gavin Francis travels throughout Arctic Europe in<br />
FINE FICTION<br />
True North; while Francis Spuf<strong>for</strong>d has gathered together the finest writing<br />
on polar exploration past and present, and the eerie hold of the regions of<br />
6.45pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
(melting) ice over our collective imagination.<br />
Salley Vickers’s Miss Garnet’s Angel – a resonant story of achieving new life and<br />
trans<strong>for</strong>mation through art – was a remarkable debut and her reputation has<br />
grown with each succeeding novel. Now she reinterprets the myth of Oedipus<br />
(she is a <strong>for</strong>mer psychoanalyst) in Where Three Roads Meet – an enduringly<br />
Spiegelbar<br />
powerful fable about blindness and knowledge. Chaired by James Jauncey. MUSIC<br />
From 9.00pm I Highland Park Spiegeltent I Free – open to all<br />
Fiction on a Pedestal:<br />
literature Come and enjoy a relaxing evening with live music in our atmospheric<br />
travelling ballroom. A great place to have a drink and end your festival day.<br />
Is the Novel Overrated<br />
The band line-up is available from the In<strong>for</strong>mation Desk in the Entrance Tent.<br />
THE LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS EVENT<br />
Sponsored by Highland Park<br />
7.00pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Is the novel an overrated and moribund art <strong>for</strong>m Why should we care<br />
about it and where is it going An expert and passionate panel discusses<br />
whither the novel. Come and join Anne Enright, Andrew O’Hagan, and<br />
Marina Warner.<br />
28 EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 9 – 25 August 2008<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 />
crime<br />
literature<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