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Browse Our Books We Have Two Well-Stocked Bookshops in Charlotte Square Gardens Where You Can Happily While Away an Hour Or Two in association with Edinburgh International Book Festival 14 – 30 August 2004 Charlotte Square Gardens www.edbookfest.co.uk Sponsors and Supporters The Edinburgh International Book Festival is funded by Title Sponsors Major Sponsors and Supporters HAWTHORNDEN LITERARY INSTITUTE Thanks to all our sponsors and supporters Humanist Society of Scotland The Binks Trust The Matthew Hodder Charitable Trust The Cruden Foundation The J P Morgan Educational Trust Faber & Faber The Royal Norwegian Consulate General Institut Français d’Ecosse The Russell Trust With thanks to: Index on Censorship, Scottish Book Trust, Scottish Poetry Library, Scottish Storytelling Centre The Edinburgh International Book Festival is sited in Charlotte Square Gardens by kind permission of the Charlotte Square proprietors It’s our 21st birthday! Celebrate with us… Edinburgh International Book Festival Charlotte Square Gardens 14 – 30 August 2004 Tickets and info: Tel 0131 624 5050 Online www.edbookfest.co.uk See page 59 for full booking details Enchanted Evenings We’re open all day and late into the evening. Join us for author events or a drink in the gardens or in the bar. The Glenmorangie Spiegeltent is the Festival’s own glen of tranquility and is open every night until late. Discuss and Debate Come and argue! We have debates and discussion panels on every kind of pressing issue from war and exile to religion and science. Come and have your say. Browse our Books We have two well-stocked bookshops in Charlotte Square Gardens where you can happily while away an hour or two. They are owned and operated by the Loads to do Book Festival so all profits go for children straight back into making the The Book Festival is a unique festival even better than before for you. family-friendly space. There are events of every kind for children of all ages. See pages Eat, drink, relax 38 – 54. There’s plenty to eat and drink at the Book Festival. For a cold drink, a speedy pick-me-up or a light meal visit the Glenmorangie Spiegeltent. Or if you feel like a luxury cappuccino or espresso accompanied by something gorgeous to nibble try Green Mountain Coffee Roasters in the Bookshop. EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 1 14 – 30 August 2004 Who’s On You will find all kinds of world- welcome renowned and brand new authors in the following pages. Here are a Welcome to the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s 21st few names to get you started… birthday. The party starts here: a festival full of thoughts, words, ideas and sheer celebration. The Book Festival, the biggest and Muriel Spark most popular of its kind in the world, has fully come of age. Toni Morrison Back in 1983, a few tents and some bright-eyed energy popped Louis de Bernières up in a quiet Edinburgh garden, and the first Book Festival was Alex Garland born. Now we offer you the greatest living writers and thinkers Carlos Fuentes alongside brand new talent - over 500 authors in over 650 Jan Morris events for all ages and tastes. This glorious carnival is a place to talk as well as listen, to make your voice heard, to meet like Anita Desai minds and make new journeys. Come and join in: the party is Amos Oz for you. Julian Barnes Catherine Lockerbie, Director Doris Lessing Ian Rankin Tony Parsons Alan Garner Jeanette Winterson James Kelman Richard Dawkins The Book Festival proves year Since the Sunday Herald is committed to supporting Germaine Greer after year that there is a hunger writers and good writing all year round while for good writing and for serious encouraging robust debate and discussion of current Tony Benn discussion. It’s where people who affairs, it became obvious that to work with Catherine read come to meet people who Lockerbie and her team would be the very best thing Irvine Welsh write. The Herald is delighted to we could do during the Edinburgh Festival. We also be title sponsor of this annual wish all those attending this year’s EIBF an enjoyable John Simpson meeting of minds. and stimulating time. Mark Douglas Home, Editor, The Herald Andrew Jaspan, Editor, Sunday Herald George Monbiot Where are they from? Melvyn Bragg Book Festival authors this year come from over 30 different countries including: America, India, China, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Russia, South Africa, Israel, Palestine, Iain Banks Norway, Sweden, Mexico, Iceland, the Caribbean, Ireland, Poland, Germany, Latvia, France, Lithuania, Belgium, Estonia. Alexander McCall Smith What’s on? Roger McGough Books are about everything and the Book Festival is for everyone. You will find an enticing range of topics in the programme pages which follow. Each event has a short sub-title David Lodge telling you what it is about. Sheila Kitzinger Meet the Author You will find all your favourites in our Meet The Author series, featuring some of the finest Alain de Botton names in the world of books. This year’s stars include a very special visit to her home city from Scotland’s greatest author, Muriel Spark, and a first ever visit to the Book Festival William Dalrymple from the magnificent Nobel Prize-winning American, Toni Morrison. Robin Cook Contents Michael Ignatieff 4–37 Events for adults in date order Go to pages Anita Roddick 38 – 54 Events for children in date order 38–54 for events 56 – 57 Useful information for your visit Clive James 58 – 59 Ticket and booking information and activities 60 – 61 Index for children …and over 500 more 2 EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 14 – 30 August 2004 There is so much that is new for our 21st birthday year. Look out for these major themes for 2004: WAR REPORTERS OPEN MIND The biggest names in the business flock to the Book Festival to Drink, talk, listen and question in our discussion series in the discuss their dangerous and dramatic trade. How do they stay calm relaxed ambience of the Glenmorangie Spiegeltent. Our Open and objective? What about the ethics of it all? What is it really like to Mind sessions are designed to put you centre stage. Each be at the battle front in Bosnia, Iraq or in Africa? And what about evening has a theme – from spin in the media, to the politics war reporters in novels – can fiction ever match the reality? of food, to the future of Europe. Put your questions to our EXILE AND DIASPORA panel and make your voice heard. Millions of people throughout the world are far from their EAST AND WEST homeland. Whether Scots sailing to the New World, Jews making The Book Festival continues its major exploration of relations new lives in the aftermath of the Holocaust, Palestinians refused between the West and the East, in a year which saw renewed entry to their own home, or the waves of immigrants who have tensions and fears. In 2004 we look back to the Crusades, and formed modern Britain, we look at how writers reflect the many at the Middle East today; we look at fundamentalism (of all faces of exile. sorts) and analyse the situation in Iraq: vitally important events 21 YEARS: NEW YOUNG FICTION with leading experts. In honour of our 21st birthday, we highlight the work of writers FOCUS ON CHINA still in their twenties. Fresh, invigorating, funny or moving, For the first time, there is a significant Chinese presence at astonishingly talented, the novels of these young authors burst into the Book Festival in 2004, offering essential insights into this life in our special new writing events. These are the stars of the future; be among the very first to meet them at the Book Festival. vast and complex land. Fiction, business, and Edinburgh seen through Chinese eyes all feature in this special series. More fantastic themes for 2004 INTERNATIONAL FICTION AND POETRY All our most-loved favourites return: look Discover new horizons as the Book Festival opens up the words and thoughts of other cultures as diverse as the Nordic countries, out for the top writers in history, crime, the Eastern European states joining the EU this year and Brazil. lived lives (biography and memoirs), food, Once more this year, we give special prominence to the work of Canadian authors, some of the very best in the world. fine fiction, gardening, travel, poetry and MATTERS OF THE MIND much more. Imprisoned Writers,paying Philosophy and psychology are among the most popular subjects tribute to those persecuted for their beliefs of all at the Book Festival and we have a dazzling line-up of the finest thinkers for 2004. Learn about the mysteries of the human and words, is an essential component mind and exercise your own mind in understanding the world and of the Book Festival too. how we perceive it. An invigorating mental work-out. POPULAR SCIENCE BE CREATIVE Some of the most influential names in science discuss their For help with your own writing, head straight for our special ground-breaking ideas, including the great Richard Dawkins, Writing Business series at 6.45pm each day, designed to give one of the most important thinkers on evolution since Darwin. pragmatic help on everything from writing poetry for children to marketing your own book. A specially expanded series of THE BOOKCASE Writing Workshops is also on offer this year, and the Society The British Council and Scottish Arts Council host an invited of Authors Help Desk returns, with practical assistance on all delegation of leading figures from the international literature manner of writing and publishing queries. Find them in the scene to experience a selection of the best writing here at the Bookshop from 1pm to 5pm on 16, 17,18 and 20 August.
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