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Sunday 17 August events <strong>for</strong> adults continued<br />
George Steiner<br />
LITERATURE AND CULTURE<br />
3.00pm I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
We are delighted and honoured to welcome one of the world’s leading<br />
intellectuals to the Book Festival. In his 80th year the renowned thinker and<br />
influential critic outlines in My Unwritten Books the seven books he has never<br />
written, but always wanted to write, revealing much of his remarkable life<br />
along the way. Chaired by Magnus Linklater.<br />
Julian Baggini & Steve J Martin<br />
MATTERS OF THE MIND<br />
3.30pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
We love to moan – but do we complain about the things that really matter<br />
How can we best persuade others to say ‘yes’ to our requests Julian Baggini<br />
examines why and how we complain; Steve J Martin reveals the psychology<br />
of persuasion – and how to be more influential in everyday life.<br />
Jenny Colgan<br />
COMEDY AND FICTION<br />
4.00pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
The witty and highly popular chronicler of the life and loves of the young<br />
British woman is at her sparkling best in Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend.<br />
A girl about town is down at heel when daddy cuts off her allowance –<br />
perhaps becoming a photographer will improve her <strong>for</strong>tunes A funny<br />
and invigorating hour of entertainment.<br />
Roy Hattersley<br />
BRITISH HISTORY<br />
4.30pm I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
One of our most popular, entertaining and erudite visitors returns. Join the<br />
politician, commentator and author as he continues his journey through<br />
twentieth century Britain with a masterly assessment of Britain between<br />
the wars, a time of uneasy peace, the General Strike, turmoil in India and<br />
Ireland, and a royal abdication.<br />
Christopher Hope<br />
& Sara Maitland<br />
FINE FICTION<br />
4.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £6.00 £4.00<br />
culture<br />
society<br />
fiction<br />
history<br />
fiction<br />
Glittering short stories from two acknowledged masters of the <strong>for</strong>m.<br />
Christopher Hope gives us seductive stories on the themes of alienation<br />
and belonging in The Garden of Bad Dreams. Sara Maitland offers modern<br />
traditional tales in Far North; the title story, based on an Inuit myth, will<br />
shortly be released as a major film.<br />
Lisa Appignanesi<br />
MATTERS OF THE MIND<br />
5.00pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
From the depression suffered by Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to the anguish<br />
and addictions of Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. From Freud to womencentred<br />
therapies. Lisa Appignanesi discusses her brilliant and brave study of the<br />
relationship between women, mental illness and the mind doctors. Mad, Bad and<br />
Sad was recently nominated <strong>for</strong> the Samuel Johnson Prize <strong>for</strong> Non-fiction.<br />
Amnesty International<br />
Imprisoned Writers Series<br />
RIGHT TO TAKE PART IN THE GOVERNMENT<br />
OF ONE’S COUNTRY<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: Many writers have been persecuted <strong>for</strong> their political<br />
opinions and denied access to government. The writing today comes from<br />
Ethiopia, Iran and Afghanistan and our featured readers include Ken MacLeod.<br />
David Park & Glenn Patterson<br />
FOCUS ON NORTHERN IRELAND<br />
6.00pm I Writers’ Retreat I £6.00 £4.00<br />
Northern Ireland brilliantly explored. In Once Upon a Hill Glenn Patterson<br />
researches his grandparents’ marriage, and discovered how his own life<br />
was shaped by events long ago. In David Park’s The Truth Commissioner old<br />
loyalties and future freedoms are tested as a fictional Commission is set<br />
up to examine the province’s troubled past.<br />
A BOOKCASE EVENT<br />
Christopher Brookmyre<br />
THE OPEN UNIVERSITY SERIES<br />
6.30pm I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Our second dose of the brilliant Christopher Brookmyre. With A Snowball<br />
in Hell, the acclaimed crime writer takes on celebrity culture and reality<br />
television with a deadly comic touch.<br />
A BOOKCASE EVENT<br />
Xiaolu Guo<br />
FOCUS ON CHINA<br />
6.45pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
BSL<br />
philosophy<br />
society<br />
nations<br />
fiction<br />
world writing<br />
A captivating snapshot of modern China escaping the past. Xiaolu Guo is a<br />
leading Book Festival favourite and won international praise <strong>for</strong> A Concise<br />
Chinese-English Dictionary <strong>for</strong> Lovers. She draws on her own experience as<br />
a film-maker in her next novel, 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth about a<br />
young woman who travels 1800 miles from her dusty village to seek her<br />
<strong>for</strong>tune as an extra in Beijing.<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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