See page 74 / 75 for booking details
See page 74 / 75 for booking details
See page 74 / 75 for booking details
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
Thursday 21 August events <strong>for</strong> adults continued<br />
Raja Shehadeh<br />
THE ORWELL PRIZE EVENT<br />
7.00pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
The 2008 winner of The Orwell Prize <strong>for</strong> Political Writing, leading Palestinian<br />
human rights lawyer and writer Raja Shehadeh makes a welcome return to the<br />
Book Festival. He reveals more of the beautiful but battered landscape of his<br />
country in a newly revised edition of his Palestinian Walks. Crossing his land on<br />
foot, he navigates recent Palestinian history, from Ayn Kenya to the Shukba<br />
Caves, the Ramallah hills and the Dead Sea.<br />
James Miller<br />
& Michael Symmons Roberts<br />
FINE FICTION<br />
7.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £6.00 £4.00<br />
A highly successful poet and librettist, Michael Symmons Roberts is also a<br />
fine novelist. His second novel Breath, set in a country ravaged by civil war,<br />
is a disturbing story about grief and violence – the accidental death of a<br />
teenager dramatically affecting many lives. James Miller’s gripping debut,<br />
Lost Boys, is an apocalyptic fable of Peter Pan and terrorism – a Lord of the<br />
Flies <strong>for</strong> our times.<br />
Ian Rankin<br />
THE MURRAY BEITH MURRAY EVENT<br />
8.00pm I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
BSL<br />
nations<br />
fiction<br />
crime<br />
One of the most perennially popular appearances at the Book Festival is that<br />
of Ian Rankin, international bestselling phenomenon, in the city he has made<br />
his – and Rebus’s – own. Join the much-garlanded Scottish genius of crime<br />
and genial raconteur in an hour of constant delight.<br />
Paul Carr & James Harkin<br />
SOCIETY AND CULTURE<br />
8.30pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Essential guidance to our bizarre modern life. James Harkin explains where<br />
buzz words like ‘trans-humanist’ or ‘metrosexual’ come from and what they<br />
mean. Paul Carr gives a fascinating exposé of how a strange group of<br />
opportunists found instant <strong>for</strong>tune messing about on the web, and his<br />
attempts to follow in their footsteps and find out what lies beyond Web 2.0.<br />
Andre Dubus III<br />
& Andrew Sean Greer<br />
FINE FICTION<br />
8.30pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Two transatlantic tales capturing the fragility and intensity of human love<br />
and desire. Andre Dubus III captures America on the cusp of September 11<br />
with a story of love and desperation on the seedier side of Florida. Andrew<br />
Sean Greer’s Story of a Marriage takes us back to racially divided 1950s San<br />
Francisco, where the illusion of a happy marriage is all but destroyed when<br />
a stranger comes to town.<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<br />
travelling ballroom. A great place to end your festival day. The band<br />
line-up is available from the In<strong>for</strong>mation Desk in the Entrance Tent.<br />
Sponsored by Highland Park<br />
culture<br />
world writing<br />
Electronic Genetic Profiling<br />
SOCIETY AND ETHICS<br />
8.00pm I RBS Corner Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Do you think your genes define you What implications would there be if your<br />
DNA profile was merged with your medical history and personal in<strong>for</strong>mation<br />
and then stored on a computer chip How could this benefit doctors and<br />
scientists Is our privacy or even our security at risk Join a panel including<br />
the Scottish Youth Parliament and Dr Claudia Pagliari, Convenor of the<br />
eHealth Interdisciplinary Research Group, <strong>for</strong> an engaging, complex debate.<br />
Supported by the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum<br />
society<br />
Edinburgh is the world’s first City of Literature – a unique,<br />
permanent designation conferred by UNESCO in recognition<br />
of the Scottish capital’s rich literary past, dynamic present and<br />
aspirations <strong>for</strong> the future. From Robert Louis Stevenson and<br />
Walter Scott to Ian Rankin and J K Rowling, Edinburgh is a<br />
writers’ city and a readers’ city. We are now encouraging other<br />
cities elsewhere in the world to join us in celebrating their own<br />
literary identity. The Book Festival is proud to be a central part<br />
of Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature; and to proclaim at all<br />
times the profound importance of words, ideas and literature to<br />
Scotland, its connections with the world and its future.<br />
www.cityofliterature.com.<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 />
52<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
Change language