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24<br />
Sunday<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 />
Tom Pow & Dilys Rose<br />
WAKE UP TO WORDS<br />
10.15am I Highland Park Spiegeltent I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Two of Scotland’s finest and most perceptive poets. Tom Pow’s powerful<br />
collection Dear Alice: Narratives of Madness explores the imaginative legacy<br />
of a nineteenth century lunatic asylum. Dilys Rose draws on eerie medical<br />
history and myth <strong>for</strong> her original collection focusing on the human body,<br />
From Olga’s Back to Weaver’s Bottom.<br />
Free coffee and pastries. Sponsored by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters<br />
Alistair Moffat & Marc Morris<br />
ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH HISTORY<br />
11.00am I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
The historic divisions between England and Scotland explored. Broadcaster,<br />
author and director of the Borders Book Festival, Alistair Moffat tells the story<br />
of Hadrian’s Wall, the largest single Roman monument in the world, and its<br />
impact on Northern Britain. Marc Morris presents a fascinating portrait of<br />
medieval King Edward I, conqueror of Scotland and nemesis of Braveheart.<br />
Accessing the Teen Market<br />
WRITING WORKSHOP<br />
11.00am – 12.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £12.00 £10.00<br />
literature<br />
poetry<br />
history<br />
workshop<br />
Keith Gray, award-winning author <strong>for</strong> teenagers and young adults, Scottish<br />
Book Trust’s virtual writer-in-residence and teen fiction reviewer <strong>for</strong> the<br />
Scotsman, offers valuable practical advice on how to write <strong>for</strong> this most<br />
demanding, and also rewarding, of audiences. (Maximum 20 places)<br />
Salman Rushdie<br />
fiction<br />
THE BAILLIE GIFFORD EVENT<br />
11.30am I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
We are overjoyed to welcome back to the Book Festival one of the world’s<br />
greatest living writers. His 1993 Midnight’s Children was judged to be Booker<br />
of the Bookers. Now Salman Rushdie returns with another masterpiece,<br />
The Enchantress of Florence, a sumptuous mix of fable and history set in<br />
Mughal India and Renaissance Florence.<br />
Arkady Babchenko<br />
& Åsne Seierstad<br />
THE ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA MEMORIAL EVENT<br />
12 noon I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Anna Politkovskaya, leading Russian journalist and outspoken critic of the<br />
Chechen conflict, was assassinated in 2006 not long after her extraordinary<br />
and resonant Book Festival appearance. She is remembered today as we hear<br />
inside accounts of the Chechen tragedy. Arkady Babchenko gives a riveting<br />
account of life as a young soldier at the front line. Acclaimed <strong>for</strong>eign<br />
correspondent Åsne Seierstad returned to Chechyna to find a society<br />
brutalised by war in The Angel of Grozny.<br />
John Mullan & John Sutherland<br />
LITERATURE AND CULTURE<br />
12.30pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Why have writers from Walter Scott to Joe Klein gone to great lengths to hide<br />
their identities What was the original title of Nineteen Eighty-Four Which<br />
author had the heaviest brain John Mullan reveals how anonymity is a sure<br />
route to notoriety and John Sutherland divulges diverting literary trivia.<br />
Will Self<br />
fiction<br />
THE BIG ISSUE EVENT<br />
1.30pm I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
The prodigiously talented writer of The Book of Dave returns with his new<br />
novel The Butt, a disturbing allegory of the liberal West post-9/11. Set in a<br />
distorted world, an innocent discarding of a cigarette butt by a tourist leads<br />
to an assault charge.<br />
Writing Stories<br />
WRITING WORKSHOP<br />
2.00pm – 3.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £12.00 £10.00<br />
Linda Cracknell has just published her long-awaited second collection of<br />
short stories, The Searching Glance. Join her <strong>for</strong> some inspiring perspectives<br />
and practical exercises on writing stories. (Maximum 20 places)<br />
Tim Birkhead & Graeme Gibson<br />
NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT<br />
2.30pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
nations<br />
literature<br />
workshop<br />
environment<br />
Graeme Gibson and his wife Margaret Atwood are honorary presidents of<br />
the Rare Bird Club of BirdLife International. At the last Book Festival he<br />
made an impassioned speech following the poisoning of an eagle in the<br />
Borders. Today the author of The Bedside Book of Birds talks about<br />
campaigning <strong>for</strong> endangered species. Tim Birkhead’s beautifully detailed<br />
The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology describes the lives<br />
of birds, and reveals some fascinating truths behind the historical myths.<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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