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Saturday 16 August events <strong>for</strong> adults continued<br />
New Norwegian Writing world writing<br />
WRITERS OF THE WORLD<br />
5.00pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
As part of our vibrant exchange with Norway, we are delighted to welcome<br />
leading writers from Stavanger City of Culture 2008. A remarkable range of<br />
writing has flourished in that beautiful region and today we launch a special<br />
anthology featuring Kjartan Fløgstad, Sigmund Jensen, Tore Renberg,<br />
Øyvind Rimbereid, Einar O Risa and Torild Wardaenar. Come and meet<br />
the finest talent from just across the North Sea.<br />
Amnesty International<br />
Imprisoned Writers Series<br />
RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF THOUGHT,<br />
CONSCIENCE AND RELIGION<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: Authors from Egypt, Syria, Colombia and<br />
Bangladesh write about the way in which they have been prevented from<br />
expressing their thoughts. Amongst those reading today is Toby Litt.<br />
David Roberts<br />
THE ART OF ILLUSTRATING<br />
5.30pm – 7.00pm I RBS Workshop Tent I £12.00 £10.00<br />
One of the most distinctive illustrators working today, David Roberts<br />
is as versatile as he is prolific; his designs spanning fashion to book<br />
illustration. Come and meet the outstanding and delightful artist behind<br />
some of the quirkiest children’s book characters around (Dirty Bertie,<br />
Tyrannosaurus Drip and Eddie Dickens to name a few) and let him<br />
show you how it’s done. (Maximum 20 places)<br />
Joe Dunthorne & Robert Lewis<br />
FINE FICTION<br />
6.00pm I Writers’ Retreat I £6.00 £4.00<br />
Meet two of the brightest new talents to emerge from Wales. Submarine<br />
by Joe Dunthorne has been called ‘the sharpest, funniest, rudest account<br />
of a periodically troubled teenager’s coming-of-age since The Catcher in<br />
the Rye’. Robert Lewis’s second novel Swansea Terminal is a dark, funny<br />
and poignant thriller.<br />
A BOOKCASE EVENT<br />
society<br />
masterclass<br />
fiction<br />
Alexander McCall Smith<br />
fiction<br />
THE NAPIER UNIVERSITY EVENT<br />
6.30pm I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
One of the most entertaining, engaging and genial of all authors, beloved<br />
by millions across the world, Alexander McCall Smith continues to charm<br />
with his wise, beautifully observed novels set in Botswana and Scotland.<br />
A life-enhancing hour guaranteed.<br />
Sophie Hannah<br />
fiction<br />
& Gregory Norminton<br />
FINE FICTION<br />
6.45pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Two wonderful novels with undetected crime at their heart. Sophie Hannah<br />
is a prize-winning poet as well as acclaimed thriller writer. The Point of Rescue,<br />
a woman alone meeting a stranger, is addictively chilling. Edinburgh resident<br />
Gregory Norminton describes the haunting return of an intense school<br />
friendship in Serious Things.<br />
The Book of Life<br />
SCIENCE AND ETHICS<br />
7.00pm – 8.15pm I Highland Park Spiegeltent I £9.00 £7.00<br />
The mapping of the human genome is one of the most important scientific<br />
achievements of recent years. Scottish poet Gillian Ferguson spent four years<br />
producing her own literary celebration of this monumental achievement:<br />
The Human Genome: Poems on the Book of Life. Join her, and the rest of<br />
our distinguished panel, to discuss the relationship between science and art.<br />
Professor Susan Lindee, from the University of Pennsylvania, is an expert<br />
on the cultural meanings of DNA. Professor Grahame Bulfield is a leading<br />
molecular geneticist and Head of the College of Science and Engineering at<br />
the University of Edinburgh. Chaired by Dr Steve Sturdy, Deputy Director<br />
of the ESRC Genomics Forum.<br />
Supported by the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum<br />
Lloyd Jones & Deirdre Madden fiction<br />
FINE FICTION<br />
7.00pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones’s tale of survival by Dickensian storytelling on a<br />
war-threatened Pacific island, was Man Booker shortlisted, Richard & Judy<br />
selected, beloved by readers. In Molly Fox’s Birthday by celebrated Irish writer<br />
Deirdre Madden, a struggling playwright is mistaken <strong>for</strong> her famous actor friend.<br />
Nick Harkaway & Richard T Kelly<br />
FIRST FICTION<br />
7.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £6.00 £4.00<br />
Two of the most talked about debuts of the year. Nick Harkaway, son of<br />
John Le Carré, pours massive exuberance into his giddying fantasy of a<br />
post-apocalyptic Britain, The Gone-Away World. Richard T Kelly’s equally<br />
ambitious Crusaders is a socio-political epic, people struggling to survive<br />
in the run-down, swift-changing North of England.<br />
A BOOKCASE EVENT<br />
Chuck Palahniuk<br />
THE SKINNY EVENT<br />
8.00pm I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
science<br />
fiction<br />
fiction<br />
A very special visit from the States and a Book Festival event like no other<br />
as we launch Snuff by famed literary provocateur and creator of Fight Club,<br />
Chuck Palahniuk. His hair-raisingly outrageous new novel is about a world<br />
record attempt in the porn industry. Expect bad taste, props, hilarity. Not <strong>for</strong><br />
the easily offended. Over 18s only.<br />
Doug Johnstone & Toby Litt<br />
fiction<br />
MUSIC AND FICTION<br />
8.30pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Bands on the road, band mates together, sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll: two<br />
great novels about rock musicians on tour. Doug Johnstone plays in a band;<br />
his new novel The Ossians is a rock odyssey around modern Scotland. Toby<br />
Litt’s I play the drums in a band called okay follows a Canadian band on tour<br />
– very true to life and very funny.<br />
Andrew Miller & Alan Spence<br />
THE OPEN UNIVERSITY SERIES<br />
8.30pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Exquisite fiction set in Japan by two award-laden authors. Alan Spence,<br />
fiction<br />
director of Aberdeen’s Word festival, tells of the Scot who helped found modern<br />
Japan in Pure Land. Andrew Miller’s One Morning Like A Bird is set in Tokyo in<br />
1940 – a tale of growing up and a great city on the brink of catastrophe.<br />
Spiegelbar<br />
MUSIC<br />
From 9.00pm I Highland Park Spiegeltent I Free – open to all<br />
Come and enjoy a relaxing drink with live music in our atmospheric travelling<br />
ballroom. A great place to end your festival day. The band line-up<br />
is available from the In<strong>for</strong>mation Desk in the Entrance Tent.<br />
Sponsored by Highland Park<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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