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Join us in the gardens<br />
Admission free – everyone welcome!<br />
Book Festival Bookshops<br />
The Bookshop is open daily from 9.30am – 9.30pm.<br />
Take time to browse and explore the thousands of<br />
titles from Book Festival and other authors including<br />
Scottish interest books, contemporary fiction and<br />
non-fiction. A haven <strong>for</strong> book lovers.<br />
RBS Children’s Bookshop is open daily from<br />
9.30am – 8.30pm. The latest and best books <strong>for</strong><br />
youngsters are available in a bookshop created<br />
especially <strong>for</strong> children – from babies to teenagers.<br />
There are fun free Activity and Reading Corners at<br />
the rear where kids (and any exhausted adults!)<br />
can play, relax and read.<br />
Book Signings<br />
Authors sign copies of their books after their events.<br />
Book signings take place in the London Review of Books<br />
Signing Tent, The Bookshop and the RBS Children’s<br />
Bookshop. Please check the venue boards outside each<br />
venue <strong>for</strong> when signings are scheduled.<br />
All proceeds from our independent bookshops are<br />
put directly back into the Book Festival.<br />
1548 Forth 2 at the Book Festival<br />
Saturdays 12 noon – 2.45pm<br />
Sundays 12 noon – 3.00pm<br />
For further in<strong>for</strong>mation go to www.<strong>for</strong>th2.com<br />
Forth 2's very own Paula Whitelock will be soaking<br />
up the atmosphere every weekend at this year’s<br />
Book Festival. With guest interviews from some<br />
of our bestselling authors, come along to Charlotte<br />
Square Gardens to join in!<br />
Eating and Drinking<br />
Beetroot Blue Café Bar<br />
in the London Review of Books Signing Tent<br />
Daily from 9.30am – late<br />
Fairtrade coffee, teas, whisky, wines and beer plus<br />
a range of light snacks, sandwiches and salads.<br />
Beetroot Blue Café Bar<br />
in the Highland Park Spiegeltent<br />
Daily from 11.30am – 6.00pm<br />
Homemade soups, sandwiches, salads and Fairtrade<br />
coffee and teas plus great beer, Stella Bella wine and<br />
plenty of Highland Park whisky. Also live music most<br />
lunchtimes.<br />
Fenton Barns in The City<br />
in The Bookshop<br />
Daily from 9.30am – 9.15pm<br />
The café at East Lothian’s Fenton Barns Farm Shop<br />
is now in the heart of Edinburgh. Wholesome snacks,<br />
tempting homemade pastries, mouth-watering cakes<br />
and tarts, as well as Fairtrade organic coffees from<br />
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, speciality teas and<br />
award-winning soft drinks.<br />
Di Rollo of Musselburgh Ice Cream Trike<br />
Daily from 11.00am – 6.00pm<br />
Luscious locally made ice cream.<br />
The Spiegelbar<br />
in the Highland Park Spiegeltent<br />
Evenings from 9.00pm<br />
A full and fabulous bar in our atmospheric 1930s<br />
travelling ballroom with free live music every night<br />
from Sunday 10 August. You can find out the<br />
line-up of bands from the In<strong>for</strong>mation Desk in<br />
the Entrance Tent.<br />
Book Festival authors<br />
on BBC Radio Scotland<br />
Book Festival authors also take part in live recordings<br />
of the Festival Café at the Famous Spiegeltent in<br />
George Square – near Edinburgh University – from<br />
Monday 11 to Friday 22 August (excluding weekends)<br />
at 1.15pm – 2.00pm. Tickets are free from the Fringe:<br />
0131 226 6000 or www.edfringe.com.<br />
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EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 9 – 25 August 2008