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2009 Public Programme in association with 15 – 31 August 2009 Charlotte Square Gardens www.edbookfest.co.uk thanks to all our sponsors and supporters Thanks also go to: FUNDERS The Binks Trust British Council The Canada Council for the Arts The John S Cohen Foundation The Craignish Trust The Cruden Foundation TITLE SPONSOR OF SCHOOLS & CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMES Danish Arts Council &MAINTHEATRE MEDIA PARTNERS Finnish Literature Exchange Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature The GB Sasakawa Foundation Goethe Institute Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust The Icelandic Literature Fund MAJOR SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS Institut Francais d’Ecosse Italian Cultural Institute The Japan Foundation The Morton Charitable Trust genomics forum New Zealand Book Council NORLA (Norwegian Literature Abroad) HAWTHORNDEN LITERARY RETREAT Outside In: Inside Out Polish Cultural Institute Publishing Scotland Scottish Youth Parliament Singapore Arts Council Spanish Ministry of Culture Embassy of Sweden United States Embassy of London SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS US Consulate in Edinburgh Benefactors James and Morag Anderson Jane Attias Geoff and Mary Ball Richard and Catherine Burns Douglas and Midge Connell Mr and Mrs Fred Johnston Alexander McCall Smith And all the other individuals who have donated to the Book Festival this year. We would also like to thank all the publishers who help to make the Festival possible each year. The Edinburgh International Book Festival is sited in Charlotte Square Gardens by kind permission of the Charlotte Square Proprietors Entry to our garden is FREE Edinburgh International Book Festival Charlotte Square Gardens, 15 – 31 August 2009 The noise of passionate debate, the laughter of delighted audiences, and the Contents expectant hush that falls over people who are caught by the spell of words and 2–68 Events for adults, teens ideas. Yes, this is heaven. The Book Festival is a cauldron of debate that reflects and children what’s going on in the larger culture. Thousands will crowd our tents to meet Listed in date order to help 750 authors at over 700 events, designed to stimulate those who’ve just learned you get the most out of your to run, right up to those who no longer can: all made gloriously welcome. visit. Please use our website search to see events listed by And there will be much to remember. In the year of Homecoming, theme, content and/or author. commemorating the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns, we’ll not only celebrate and argue over our National Bard, we’ll feature the best of contemporary 69 Useful information for Scottish writing from Kelman to Kennedy, and that’s only the Ks. those visiting with children It’s the year of Darwin, the disturber of human conceit, so we’ll honour him by a 70 Bookshops, food and drink series of debates exploring the hatred religion provokes, the devastation greed 71 Help us help the environment, visits upon society, and the kind of world we are handing on to our children. Support us Speaking of children, this year is the 40th anniversary of Eric Carle’s The Very 72 Site map, venue details, Hungry Caterpillar,thefinalinstalmentofThe Edge Chronicles and the last facilities for disabled visitors diary entry of the infamous Georgia Nicolson, all of which feature in our RBS Children’s Programme, along with plenty of heroes, fairies and magic. 73 Edinburgh and the festivals Time fails me to tell of authors of renown who will bestride our narrow 74 – 75 Booking information boardwalks: of Atwood and Keillor, of Gaiman and Mantel, of Drabble and and booking form Coupland, not to mention writers from just about every country in the world. 76 – 77 Author index Search our programme But the show will be incomplete without you. by author here. Please join us. Richard Holloway Look out for our helpful event symbols: CATHERINE LOCKERBIE RICHARD HOLLOWAY Aselectionofeventsthat FESTIVAL DIRECTOR 2009 GUEST DIRECTOR older teens and younger adults may particularly enjoy. 750 events in a beautiful garden (just off the West End of Princes Street). Rich debates giving you a chance to have Broad event categories your say! Children’s activities to inspire and enthral all ages. literature politics Our own independent bookshops with thousands of titles, fiction nations including the RBS Children’s Bookshop.Plentyoffood and poetry science drink to keep you refreshed at our cafés and bars. Free live world writing society music in the atmospheric Highland Park Spiegeltent. crime environment biography travel culture food & drink Book tickets: history philosophy www.edbookfest.co.uk 0845 373 5888 workshop masterclass (calls from a BT landline charged at the local rate, rates may vary from other phone providers) See page 74 for full booking information 1 Saturday 15 August events for adults Ruth Padel poetry Stephen Grey & Peter Marsden politics WAKE UP TO WORDS: EXPLORING DARWIN EAST AND WEST 10.15am I Highland Park Spiegeltent I £9.00 £7.00 12.30pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00 Our opening event plunges into the heart of one of our major themes this The war in Afghanistan continues with no sign of resolution, only deepening year: a reassessment of Charles Darwin and his revolutionary theory that complexity and commitment for Western powers. Hear two fresh perspectives changed our understanding of the world. We start by appraising Darwin the on the crisis: journalist Stephen Grey, who was with the British Army at the man. Acclaimed poet Ruth Padel is Darwin’s great-great-granddaughter, and siege of Musa Qala, examines the reasons behind the war and the effect on her remarkable and intimate poetic memoir explores his science, travels, those involved; Peter Marsden draws on his experience as an aid worker in the marriage and family life. An illuminating and moving interpretation, and an country to analyse the historical failings and what needs to be done to resolve essential beginning to the 2009 Edinburgh International Book Festival. the crisis in the future. Free coffee and pastries. Sponsored by Circle Café. Caroline Moorhead biography Fred Freeman literature LIVED LIVES CELEBRATING SCOTLAND 2.00pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00 11.00am I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00 Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation: her diaries provide To launch our Homecoming Scotland programme and to begin our avividportraitofVersailles,theFrenchRevolutionandNapoleon.Caroline celebration of the 250th anniversary of Scotland's Bard, the internationally Moorhead, whose previous biographies include Bertrand Russell and Freya renowned expert Fred Freeman gives a provocative insight into a wholly Stark, shows us an extraordinary woman in the midst of extraordinary times. unknown Burns: the musician and song-writer. With numerous musical From the court of Louis XVI to a farm in Jefferson’s America, back to Restoration examples drawn from Freeman’s monumental 12-volume Complete Songs France via the Battle of Waterloo, she observed, commented upon and often Of Robert Burns. participated in one of the most dramatic periods of history capturing the political intrigue and everyday details of the period. Writing a Novel workshop How to Make a Living as a Writer workshop WRITING WORKSHOP 11.00am – 12.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £12.00 £10.00 WRITING WORKSHOP 2.00pm – 3.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £12.00 £10.00 Whether you have a work in progress or are looking for an idea to develop, join Laura Hird for an inspiring workshop which looks at how to build a full It’s fine if your books are bestsellers around the world, but what if you’re a length novel, using the raw material of observation and experience. Author of lower mid-list or debut author? How do you make ends meet? Keith A Nail and other Stories and the novel Born Free,LauraHirdhasbeenwidely Charters,bestsellingauthoroftheLEEnovelsforages9-12andthefounder published and anthologised. (Maximum 20 places.) and Managing Director of Strident Publishing, provides some of the answers. (Maximum 20 places.) In association with Arvon tutors at Moniack Mhor Writers’ Centre Kate Atkinson fiction Mio Matsumoto world writing THE BAILLIE GIFFORD EVENT GRAPHIC NOVELS 11.30am I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00 2.30pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00 What better opening for our 2009 Meet The Author series than literary My Diary is a beautiful and poignant memoir from a young Japanese graphic pyrotechnics from Edinburgh’s own bestselling, award-garlanded Kate artist. While studying in London, Mio Matsumoto discovered she had cancer and Atkinson. PI Jackson Brodie is back again in When Will There Be Good News?. on returning to Japan for treatment she began to keep a visual diary capturing Plots and characters collide with momentous results in this brilliantly the emotion, humour, boredom and absurdity of her five months of treatment. perceptive and beguiling tale of love and loss. Carlos Ruiz Zafón world writing Ehsan Masood science FINE FICTION EAST AND WEST 3.00pm I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00 12 noon I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00 The Shadow of the Wind was a publishing phenomenon, the most successful Between the 8th and 16th centuries, scholars in Islamic territories advanced Spanish novel since Don Quixote.WithThe Angel’s Game Carlos Ruiz Zafón our knowledge of astronomy, chemistry, mathematics, medicine and returns to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books in a gothic tale of lost souls and philosophy. They developed clocks, discovered how blood circulates, created literary intrigue. Join us in welcoming Spain’s master storyteller to the Book algebra and debated the
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