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25<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 />
Rodge Glass in Conversation<br />
with Will Self<br />
WAKE UP TO WORDS<br />
10.15am I Highland Park Spiegeltent I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Rodge Glass, novelist and erstwhile secretary to Alasdair Gray, has written<br />
a dazzling, highly unusual biography of the <strong>for</strong>emost Scottish writer. Glass<br />
brings to life not only Gray’s unrestrained and sometimes unfathomable<br />
creativity, but also the city and friends that have inspired him. He will be in<br />
conversation with Will Self, one of Alasdair Gray’s biggest fans.<br />
Free coffee and pastries. Sponsored by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters<br />
Kevin Jefferys<br />
POLITICS AND SOCIETY<br />
11.00am I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Is British democracy is in crisis In Politics and the People historian Kevin<br />
Jefferys argues that political apathy has always been endemic among the<br />
public, and investigates the emergence of British democracy as we know it.<br />
How to Make a<br />
Publisher Say Yes!<br />
WRITING WORKSHOP<br />
11.00am – 12.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £12.00 £10.00<br />
literature<br />
biography<br />
politics<br />
workshop<br />
Getting that first contract can seem tantalisingly close or horribly<br />
unreachable. Nicola Morgan, Chair of the Society of Authors in Scotland,<br />
offers a detailed discussion and surgery. Bring your hopes, attempts,<br />
failures and near misses, and perhaps discover what you are doing wrong.<br />
(Maximum 20 places)<br />
Sean Connery & Murray Grigor<br />
THE HIGHLAND PARK EVENT<br />
11.30am I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
A remarkable Book Festival exclusive. Edinburgh’s own son, the most<br />
famous living Scot, international film legend – a visit by Sir Sean Connery<br />
biography<br />
at any time is a cause <strong>for</strong> jubilation but particularly on the publication of his<br />
long-awaited book, and on the very day of his 78th birthday. Being A Scot,<br />
written with his friend and film-maker Murray Grigor, is a vivid and highly<br />
personal account of Scotland and its achievements. Chaired by<br />
Sheena McDonald.<br />
Terence Kealey<br />
BUSINESS MATTERS<br />
12.30pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
How did people evolve to make money With infectious enthusiasm the<br />
author of Sex, Science & Profits conjures up the banking systems of<br />
Ptolemaic Egypt, twelfth century English windmills and the mating calls<br />
of whales to demonstrate how an understanding of biology and natural<br />
selection can radically trans<strong>for</strong>m our view of economics.<br />
Bashir Maan<br />
EAST AND WEST<br />
2.00pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
The firebombing at Glasgow Airport by radical Islamists and subsequent<br />
reprisals underlined the lack of understanding about the Muslim community<br />
in Scotland. Whereas fifty years ago there were fewer than 500 Muslims<br />
living in this country, now there are 50,000. Bashir Maan’s The Thistle and<br />
the Crescent is a pioneering and urgently needed study of Scottish-Islamic<br />
relations.<br />
Writing Fantasy<br />
WRITING WORKSHOP<br />
2.00pm – 3.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £12.00 £10.00<br />
Fantasy writing knows no bounds on its imaginative journey but where do<br />
you begin Join leading author Alan Campbell as he gives directions and<br />
signposts to guide you through your literary adventure. (Maximum 20 places)<br />
Anne Fine<br />
FINE FICTION<br />
2.30pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Anne Fine’s adult fiction is marked by sharp characterisation and delicious<br />
dark comedy. In Fly in the Ointment a divorcee looks <strong>for</strong>ward to the single<br />
life, until she’s sucked back into family responsibilities by the spiteful<br />
mother of her beloved grandson and finds herself on a collision course<br />
with justice. Acid intelligence, insight and entertainment.<br />
Carol Thatcher<br />
LIVED LIVES<br />
3.00pm I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
society<br />
society<br />
workshop<br />
fiction<br />
biography<br />
The Iron Lady Junior tells her story. With characteristic wit, the journalist<br />
reveals growing up as daughter of The Milk Snatcher and Sir Dennis<br />
Thatcher, describing her young life as a ‘swim-on part in the goldfish bowl’,<br />
and her adult success on I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here. Chaired by<br />
Allan Little.<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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