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18<br />
Monday<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 />
Norman Bissell & Gerry Loose<br />
WAKE UP TO WORDS<br />
10.15am I Highland Park Spiegeltent I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Two Scottish poets with a deep relationship to nature. Norman Bissell’s Slate,<br />
Sea and Sky travels from Glasgow to the open spaces of an Atlantic island –<br />
accompanied by the great Oscar Marzaroli’s photographs. Gerry Loose also<br />
combines photography and poetry inspired by Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens.<br />
Free coffee and pastries. Sponsored by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters<br />
Susan George<br />
POLITICS AND POWER<br />
10.30am I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
George Bush leaves the White House in January 2009 and the United States<br />
goes back to ‘normal’, right Wrong, argues highly influential and<br />
internationally renowned commentator Susan George. Hijacking America<br />
is her chilling account of the way the American secular and religious right has<br />
made its ‘long march through the institutions’ and fundamentally changed the<br />
way Americans think. Chaired by Richard Holloway.<br />
John Calder<br />
WRITING AND POETRY<br />
11.00am I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
John Calder – writer, publisher, translator – has been a seminal figure in<br />
late twentieth century literature. Friend and publisher of Samuel Beckett,<br />
translator of such greats as Goethe, Zola and Tolstoy and the first to publish<br />
William S Burroughs in the UK. Come and join him as he talks about his life<br />
and reads from his new collection of poetry.<br />
Business Writing<br />
WRITING WORKSHOP<br />
11.00am – 12.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £12.00 £10.00<br />
literature<br />
poetry<br />
politics<br />
literature<br />
workshop<br />
Business writing that is engaging and imaginative makes a better<br />
connection with its audience, whoever that may be, and whatever the<br />
message. In this hands-on workshop, leading business writer and novelist<br />
James Jauncey helps you discover how to put more of YOU into what you<br />
write at work. (Maximum 20 places)<br />
A L Kennedy<br />
THE BAILLIE GIFFORD EVENT<br />
11.30am I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
A not-to-be-missed hour in the company of one of the <strong>for</strong>emost writers of<br />
our time. Her fifth novel Day, winner of the Costa Book of the Year, is a<br />
brilliantly realised and moving exploration of the simple brutality of war.<br />
A BOOKCASE EVENT<br />
Lawrence Freedman<br />
& David Ryan<br />
WAR AND TERROR<br />
12 noon I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
US <strong>for</strong>eign policy under close scrutiny: Lawrence Freedman discusses the<br />
complex context of America’s predicament in the Middle East; David Ryan<br />
analyses the aftermath of the Vietnam War and the evolution of US policy<br />
in Iraq throughout the 1980s and the first Gulf War.<br />
Kenan Malik<br />
SOCIETY AND CULTURE<br />
12.30pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
The debate about race is back – and with a vengeance. In the past, scientific<br />
ideas of race reflected political ideas of inferiority and superiority, whereas<br />
today it reflects contemporary notions of diversity. Kenan Malik challenges<br />
both ideas, and argues that it’s through our political obsession with identity<br />
that the issue of race is again catching fire. Chaired by Iain Macwhirter.<br />
Mark Billingham<br />
CRIME FICTION<br />
1.30pm I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
A not-to-be-missed hour with the top stand-up comedian and leading crime<br />
writer. His Book Festival appearances are always massively popular – come<br />
and discover why! In The Dark, his first stand-alone thriller, is set in the<br />
ganglands of London, where secrets are uncovered as fast as bodies.<br />
Researching and Writing<br />
Biography<br />
WRITING WORKSHOP<br />
2.00pm – 3.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £12.00 £10.00<br />
fiction<br />
politics<br />
society<br />
crime<br />
workshop<br />
A practical workshop on research techniques and ways of structuring<br />
biography. Bring along ideas about your projects and work in progress.<br />
With Brian Osborne, author of the A&C Black Writing Handbook Writing<br />
Biography and Autobiography. (Maximum 20 places)<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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