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21<br />
Thursday<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 />
Sebastian Barry & Hugo Hamilton<br />
WAKE UP TO WORDS<br />
10.15am I Highland Park Spiegeltent I £9.00 £7.00<br />
A sublime hour of fiction from two acclaimed Irish writers. In Sebastian<br />
Barry’s exquisitely written The Secret Scripture an elderly woman recounts<br />
her life to her psychiatrist, a past which echoes Ireland’s own history.<br />
Disguise by Hugo Hamilton is the compelling search <strong>for</strong> a young man’s<br />
true identity in post-war Berlin.<br />
Free coffee and pastries. Sponsored by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters<br />
Charles Allen<br />
LIVED LIVES<br />
11.00am I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
The renowned colonial historian turns his attention to a major reassessment<br />
of Rudyard Kipling and his time in India. An engaging portrait emerges of a<br />
complex young man whose scrapes with pukka hill station society and<br />
skirmishes with Lahore low-life are at odds with his later august reputation.<br />
Nothing But the Poem<br />
POETRY WORKSHOP<br />
11.00am – 12.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £12.00 £10.00<br />
Renew your love of poetry with this fresh approach to reading with the<br />
Scottish Poetry Library. In this relaxed discussion you won’t need any<br />
background knowledge; you’ll simply come fresh to the text of single poems,<br />
take the time to read deeply and let new discoveries emerge – without the<br />
pressure of reviews, criticism and hype. Poems provided. (Maximum 20 places)<br />
A A Gill<br />
THE GREEN MOUNTAIN COFFEE<br />
ROASTERS EVENT<br />
11.30am I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
literature<br />
fiction<br />
biography<br />
workshop<br />
food & drink<br />
Meet the unashamedly intolerant perfectionist whose witty observations<br />
and scathing criticism have been required Sunday reading <strong>for</strong> many years.<br />
In Table Talk, an idiosyncratic selection of his writing about food, he delights<br />
in decoding what lies behind the food on our plates.<br />
Rose Prince & John Reader<br />
FOOD AND SOCIETY<br />
12.30pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Glorious writing on great British foodstuffs. Rose Prince celebrates local<br />
produce and charts a new geography of British food. In UN Year of the<br />
Potato, John Reader traces its influence on society, and discusses the role<br />
of the spud at a time of rising world population and environmental concern.<br />
Sameem Ali & Ay˛se Önal<br />
SOCIETY AND ETHICS<br />
2.00pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
17,000 women each year in the UK alone are victims of honour violence<br />
linked to <strong>for</strong>ced marriage. Sameem Ali writes courageously about her own<br />
<strong>for</strong>ced marriage then motherhood at the age of thirteen, and her eventual<br />
escape from her abusive family. Turkish journalist Ay˛se Önal has interviewed<br />
men convicted of killing their mothers, sisters and daughters – a work<br />
banned in Turkey. Chaired by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown.<br />
Writing History<br />
WRITING WORKSHOP<br />
2.00pm – 3.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £12.00 £10.00<br />
Widely published historical author Angus Konstam will outline the<br />
practical tools and techniques required <strong>for</strong> the successful writing<br />
of historical non-fiction. For published and aspiring historians alike.<br />
(Maximum 20 places)<br />
Gary Mead<br />
LIVED LIVES<br />
2.30pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Douglas Haig was a popular commander of the British Army in France<br />
during the First World War; it was only later that he was recast in the role<br />
of the unthinking butcher sending his cheerful Tommies to slaughter. In a<br />
major re-evaluation of Haig, Gary Mead presents a balanced portrait of an<br />
enigmatic cavalryman.<br />
Simon Hoggart<br />
POLITICS AND SOCIETY<br />
3.00pm I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
food & drink<br />
society<br />
workshop<br />
biography<br />
politics<br />
Simon Hoggart, the acclaimed Guardian columnist, provides a refreshing<br />
antidote to the media spin of contemporary politics, capturing the high<br />
drama and comedy of the soap opera that is British politics. His latest book<br />
provides a unique account of Tony Blair and his cronies’ weird, farcical and<br />
occasionally alarming decade in power.<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 />
50<br />
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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