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Booking in<strong>for</strong>mation<br />
The Box Office opens <strong>for</strong> <strong>booking</strong><br />
at 10am on Friday 20 June.<br />
Book your tickets using one of the methods below.<br />
Please note: <strong>for</strong> the first 3 days of <strong>booking</strong> only<br />
(Fri 20 – Sun 22 June) tickets will be limited to<br />
4 per event per <strong>booking</strong>.<br />
Online<br />
From 10am on 20 June: www.edbookfest.co.uk<br />
By phone 0845 373 5888<br />
Open 10am – 5pm daily from Fri 20 – Sat 28 June,<br />
then Mon to Sat only from Mon 30 June to Fri 8 Aug.<br />
Once the Book Festival has started on 9 Aug, the<br />
telephone lines are open from 9.30am – 8.30pm daily.<br />
Please be aware that the first few days of <strong>booking</strong> are extremely busy.<br />
We will do our best to deal with calls quickly, however you may not get<br />
through immediately. Calls from BT landlines are charged at the local<br />
rate, regardless of where you are calling from. Charges will vary from<br />
other phone networks – please check with your phone provider.<br />
By post<br />
Please fill in the <strong>booking</strong> <strong>for</strong>m opposite and post it to<br />
PO BOX 23835, Edinburgh, EH2 4WS. Please fill in all<br />
required sections and write clearly so we are able to<br />
process your <strong>booking</strong>.<br />
NEW FOR 2008!<br />
In person<br />
As we have no year-round public building of our own<br />
and there<strong>for</strong>e no Box Office counter, we provide a<br />
temporary Box Office counter be<strong>for</strong>e the Book<br />
Festival starts so those who prefer to book in person<br />
can. Please note our Box Office counter can only<br />
process in-person <strong>booking</strong>s.<br />
• For the first 3 days of <strong>booking</strong> only,<br />
Fri 20 Jun – Sun 22 Jun from 10am – 5pm:<br />
Edinburgh International Conference Centre,<br />
150 Morrison Street, Edinburgh.<br />
• After the first 3 days of <strong>booking</strong>,<br />
Mon 23 Jun – Fri 8 Aug from 10am – 5pm,<br />
Mon to Sat: Waterstones, 83 George Street,<br />
Edinburgh.<br />
• Once the Book Festival has opened on<br />
9 August our Box Office counter is on site in<br />
Charlotte Square Gardens in the Entrance Tent.<br />
Open 9.30am – 8.30pm daily.<br />
Payment<br />
You may pay by Visa / Delta / Maestro / Mastercard.<br />
Cheques should be made payable to Edinburgh<br />
International Book Festival. Bookings are subject to a<br />
£1 <strong>booking</strong> fee unless tickets are purchased in person<br />
(this is applied to each transaction, not each ticket booked).<br />
Tickets cannot be exchanged nor money refunded. Where<br />
ticket demand is high <strong>for</strong> sold out events, we may offer a<br />
refund subject to a £1 handling fee.<br />
Concession ticket prices<br />
Concession ticket prices are marked in italics and<br />
are available to students, over 60s, Young Scot<br />
cardholders, under 16s, registered unemployed and<br />
disabled visitors (carer goes free – see <strong>details</strong> below).<br />
Visitors with disabilities<br />
<strong>See</strong> <strong>page</strong> 72 <strong>for</strong> <strong>details</strong> of our facilities. Please ask<br />
our Box Office staff <strong>for</strong> in<strong>for</strong>mation or advice <strong>for</strong> your<br />
particular needs when <strong>booking</strong>. If your disability<br />
requires that you need a carer in order to attend our<br />
events, the carer is entitled to a free ticket which<br />
should be booked at the same time as your own.<br />
Free tickets <strong>for</strong> carers are not available online.<br />
Parking<br />
During August Edinburgh is extremely busy; traffic<br />
is heavy and vacant parking spaces are scarce. We<br />
would advise the use of public transport wherever<br />
possible. If you do need to come by car, there are<br />
metered parking spaces around Charlotte Square<br />
and along George Street, including some bays <strong>for</strong><br />
disabled drivers. There is a multi-storey car park in<br />
Castle Terrace, about a ten minute walk away from<br />
Charlotte Square.<br />
Latecomers<br />
Please be considerate and arrive in good time <strong>for</strong><br />
your event. Latecomers are hugely disruptive to<br />
audience members and authors and will not be<br />
admitted after the beginning of events. Refunds will<br />
not be given to latecomers. We recommend you do<br />
not book back-to-back events (where one event<br />
finishes at the same time the other starts) as it is<br />
extremely unlikely you will get to the second event in<br />
time <strong>for</strong> the start. Please note that leaving an event<br />
early can also be disruptive to fellow audience<br />
members and authors.<br />
Events and seating<br />
Events are 1 hour long unless otherwise specified<br />
in the event listing. All our seating is unreserved<br />
(seats don’t have numbers) and there<strong>for</strong>e you can<br />
sit anywhere in the auditorium you wish.<br />
Dogs<br />
We welcome guide dogs and hearing dogs into events<br />
and the gardens. We do not admit other dogs.<br />
All in<strong>for</strong>mation is correct at the time of going<br />
to print. We reserve the right to change or<br />
cancel any event in un<strong>for</strong>eseen circumstances.<br />
Please check our website <strong>for</strong> event updates<br />
www.edbookfest.co.uk.<br />
<strong>74</strong><br />
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 9 – 25 August 2008