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23<br />
Saturday<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 lovely<br />
Writers’ Retreat in the trees. A story, or poetry – a literary surprise each day.<br />
Check the screen in the Entrance Tent to find out who will be reading today.<br />
Susan Irvine, Derek Johns<br />
& Kate Muir<br />
WAKE UP TO WORDS<br />
10.15am I Highland Park Spiegeltent I £9.00 £7.00<br />
An enticing start to the day. Derek Johns follows his critically acclaimed<br />
debut Wintering with Wakening, a coming-of-age novel set in post-war<br />
Glastonbury. Journalist Kate Muir’s West Coast is a wickedly enjoyable<br />
novel about a celebrity artist rediscovering his roots in a small Scottish town.<br />
Susan Irvine’s Muse captures the dazzling lights and the dark side of the<br />
fashion industry.<br />
Free coffee and pastries. Sponsored by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters<br />
Kei Miller & Roma Tearne<br />
FINE FICTION<br />
11.00am I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Bittersweet tales of immigration and home. Roma Tearne’s Bone China is<br />
an epic novel of a family uprooted from Sri Lanka <strong>for</strong> a new life in London.<br />
Jamaican poet Kei Miller’s The Same Earth is a humorous debut novel<br />
centering on a West Indian village over fifty years.<br />
Developing a Critical Eye<br />
WRITING WORKSHOP<br />
11.00am – 12.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £12.00 £10.00<br />
What makes a piece of writing good, interesting or successful Author and<br />
judge <strong>for</strong> the 2008 Man Booker Prize, Louise Doughty invites you to cast a<br />
critical eye on a selection of writings in order to hone your analytical skills and<br />
to learn how agents and publishers will be judging your work. Be prepared to<br />
criticise and have your own work criticised by others. (Maximum 20 places)<br />
Margaret Atwood<br />
MEET THE AUTHOR<br />
11.30am I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
literature<br />
fiction<br />
fiction<br />
workshop<br />
fiction<br />
We are overjoyed to welcome back one of the greatest living writers and one of<br />
our most loved visitors. Today, in a Book Festival exclusive, she reads from an<br />
unpublished story set in a little-known Scottish settlement in Nova Scotia where<br />
her father grew up. An hour not to be missed. Chaired by Jackie McGlone.<br />
Supported by the Hawthornden Literary Retreat<br />
Geert Mak & Frank Westerman<br />
EAST AND WEST<br />
12 noon I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Europe to Asia – our East and West theme focuses on Turkey’s cultural and<br />
geographic furthest reaches. Geert Mak brings the multicultural history of<br />
Istanbul to life in a study of the Galata Bridge. In Ararat, Frank Westerman<br />
explores the myths and realities of the mountain where the Ark ran aground.<br />
Linda Grant & Rose Tremain<br />
FINE FICTION<br />
12.30pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Acclaimed novelist Rose Tremain describes the thwarted ambitions of an<br />
Eastern European migrant worker in her Orange Prize shortlisted The Road<br />
Home. Orange Prize winner Linda Grant’s The Clothes on Their Backs is a<br />
coming-of-age tale about the daughter of timid refugee parents who refuse<br />
to talk about the past – and how the clothes we wear in<strong>for</strong>m who we are.<br />
Novel Writing<br />
WRITING WORKSHOP<br />
2.00pm – 3.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £12.00 £10.00<br />
Everyone has a novel in them, but where do you start This workshop will<br />
address the problem of assembling your characters, plots and themes into<br />
a publishable work. A confidence and enthusiasm boosting session with<br />
Laura Marney, who has written four novels including Only Strange People<br />
Go to Church and My Best Friend Has Issues. (Maximum 20 places)<br />
In association with Arvon tutors at Moniack Mhor Writers’ Centre<br />
Joanna Bourke<br />
SOCIETY AND CRIME<br />
2.30pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
nations<br />
fiction<br />
workshop<br />
society<br />
An unflinching and controversial study of rape, looking not at victims but<br />
at rapists. The critically acclaimed author of Fear examines the nature<br />
of rape, drawing together the work of criminologists, sociologists and<br />
psychiatrists to analyse what drives the perpetrators of sexual violence.<br />
Chaired by Ruth Wishart.<br />
40 Years of the<br />
Man Booker Prize<br />
LITERATURE AND CULTURE<br />
3.00pm I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
This year is the 40th anniversary of the most important literary award in<br />
the English language. An expert panel considers the impact of the prize:<br />
Margaret Atwood, winner in 2000 with The Blind Assassin, 2008 judge and<br />
literature<br />
novelist Louise Doughty, and John Mullan, judge <strong>for</strong> The Best of the Booker.<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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