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LET’S TALK
Charlotte Square Gardens
Edinburgh
9 – 25 August 2014
ADULT
PROGRAMME
www.edbookfest.co.uk
Wednesday 11 June 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
‘LET’S TALK’
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL WELCOMES DIALOGUE
Whether it’s exploring the disappearing art of letter writing and the power of the spoken word, or listening to those
who hear inner voices or participating in a series of dialogues on the future of Scotland, the Edinburgh
International Book Festival examines all aspects of communication this summer. Under the headline ‘Let’s Talk’
the Book Festival welcomes internationally-renowned writers and thinkers from around the world to Charlotte
Square Gardens to discuss such diverse topics as the two world wars, the Commonwealth, Economic Migration,
Society, Identity, Culture and the Media.
Nick Barley, Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival said “The Book Festival provides a crucial
forum for dialogue, where we can listen to and learn from one another, particularly in this year of momentous
events in Scotland. Our thought-provoking conversations with both authors and audiences will permeate through
Charlotte Square Gardens as we welcome world-renowned writers and thinkers from many countries and
cultures to Edinburgh, some for the first time in their careers. We offer a platform for emerging voices that are
set to shape the world’s literary stage in years to come and launch some of the most talked-about books of the
year.
“Whatever the outcome of the vote on 18 September, we provide a space to view the coming changes from the
wider context of the historical events that brought us to where we are today – from the Battle of Bannockburn to
the end of WWI and the British Empire, the creation of the Commonwealth, the recent economic hardships and
even last month’s European Elections.
Haruki Murakami makes his first trip to Edinburgh to launch the English edition of his latest novel Colorless
Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (which sold a million copies in Japan in the first week of publication).
Martin Amis also makes his debut in Charlotte Square Gardens to launch his new novel The Zone of Interest.
Will Self, Amy Bloom, Sarah Waters, Alan Warner, Esther Freud, John Lanchester and Nicholas Parsons will
also launch brand new books at the Festival.
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams previews a new collection of his poetry, Tom Pow and
Simon Armitage also introduce new collections, and will be joined in the programme by the former US Poet
Laureate Billy Collins, the UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and the US War Poet Brian Turner.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT FRANCES SUTTON, PRESS MANAGER:
[email protected] / Tel: 0131 718 5654 / Mob: 07841 579481
The Edinburgh International Book Festival Ltd is a Scottish charity (SC010120) and a limited company (registered in Scotland no 79939)
and has its registered office at 5A Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, EH2 4DR.
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Other best-selling authors making their debut at the Book Festival include George R R Martin and Diana
Gabaldon. The South African literary heavyweights Damon Galgut and Zakes Mda will be joined by Mpho Tutu,
Michel Laub from Brazil and Germany’s Julia Franck.
Some familiar faces making a welcome return include
Bonnie Greer, Graham Swift, Jung Chang, Margaret Drabble, Richard Dawkins, Max Hastings and Lydia Davis
who makes her first visit to the UK since winning the Man Booker International Prize.
Richard Sennett, Ali Smith, Raja Shehadeh and Lauren Child have been invited to select and chair a series of
events on Turning Points for Civilisation, the power of words, the Middle East and creating believable worlds in
children’s literature respectively. Kate Adie delivers the annual Frederick Hood Memorial Lecture, Patrick Ness
delivers The Siobhan Dowd Trust Memorial Lecture, and the winners of the James Tait Black Prize and the
Edwin Morgan Poetry Award are revealed.
A series of evening debates, or Dialogues, will invite wide-ranging discussions on topics including The Union
and the implications of the referendum vote for the rest of the UK; Surveillance and The Self where Luke Harding,
author of The Snowden Files, is joined by Josh Cohen, author of The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark;
Energy, where Professor Susan Deacon and Richard Dixon lead a conversation on fracking; and Ageing, in
which Paul Johnson and Professor Lynne Segal ask if we can afford to grow old.
From inner monologues and imaginary friends to the demanding character voices that a novelist creates, and
from people who believe the voice they hear is an epiphany to those whose lives are taken over by multiple
voices inhabiting their consciousness, voice hearers will be the focus of a strand of events entitled
Conversations with Ourselves. Working with Durham University’s Hearing the Voice project and with the
support of the Wellcome Trust, authors and scientists will join forces to take a closer look at the medical,
historical, spiritual, anthropological and literary aspects of voice hearers in a series of talks and workshops.
An eclectic range of voices can be heard in Charlotte Square Gardens from Britain’s cutting edge Spoken Word
scene. The Babble On series of events, staged in partnership with performance poet Luke Wright and produced
by Becky Fincham, features Phill Jupitus as Porky the Poet, Elvis McGonagall, Hollie McNish and Hannah Silva,
interactive theatre makers Hannah Jane Walker and Chris Thorpe and poets William Letford and Rachel McCrum
amongst others.
Events in the Scotland’s Future strand invite leading writers and thinkers from a variety of political perspectives
to sketch out their vision of Scotland after the referendum. The Book Festival will provide a neutral forum to
facilitate broad, open-minded dialogue between authors and audience members who are keen to look forward,
past the immediate politics of the vote, and envisage the shape of things to come. Participants in the Scotland’s
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Future series of events who will be looking at issues such as the arts, economy, immigration, democracy and the
future of Europe include Linda Colley, Iain Macwhirter, James Robertson, Lesley Riddoch, Tom Devine and
Henry McLeish.
The spirit of dialogue continues in an exciting new collaboration with multi award-winning Scottish theatre
company Grid Iron. The Book Festival has commissioned four internationally acclaimed writers, Kei Miller,
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Kamila Shamsie and Christos Tsiolkas, to produce brand new pieces of short fiction,
inviting them to reflect on the themes of identity and home in the form of letters. These letters have been adapted
into a promenade theatre production, Letters Home, which is supported by the Scottish Government’s Edinburgh
Festivals Expo Fund and is part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme.
The Book Festival continues to champion emerging talent and this summer 46 authors are eligible for the
Festival’s First Book Award. Amongst some familiar names introducing their first novels, including Kirsty Wark
and James Naughtie are lesser known names, best-selling authors in their own countries and languages who
are bringing the first English translation of their work including Austria’s Clemens J Setz, Brazil’s Daniel Galera
and Kuwait’s Mai Al-Nakib.
Readers and Book Festival audiences can vote for their favourite online at
www.edbookfest.co.uk and at the Festival, and the winner will be announced in October.
The Baillie Gifford Children’s Programme celebrates stories in many forms – in music, song, poetry and
illustration. Best-selling, established names, including Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman, Julia Donaldson,
Patrick Ness, Kristina Stephenson, Darren Shan and Cathy Cassidy sit alongside exciting, emerging talent
including Mackenzie Crook, Steven Camden and Sally Green. Children of all ages can enjoy stories from many
vibrant nations, including Ethiopia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Ireland, on a wealth of subjects from
Vikings to WWI, witches to fairies and robots to spacemen.
The Edinburgh International Book Festival welcomes over 900 participants from 47 different countries to
Charlotte Square Gardens this summer, and runs from Saturday 9 to Monday 25 August 2014. Full details of
the programme can be found at www.edbookfest.co.uk. Tickets to all events go on sale on Tuesday 24 June
2014 online at www.edbookfest.co.uk, by phone on 0845 373 5888 or in person at the Box Office at the
Roxburghe Hotel on George Street (on Tuesday 24 June only, thereafter at The Hub, Castlehill).
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The Cultural Programme is a partnership between the Glasgow 2014 Organising Committee, Glasgow Life, and Creative
Scotland through National Lottery funding.
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HIGHLIGHTS
Nicola Barker
Romesh Gunesekera
Tony Parsons
Young-ha Kim
Alexander Kluge
Hamid Ismailov
Naomi Wood
Xiaolu Guo
Irving Finkel
Alain de Botton
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Linda Grant
Andrew Greig
Zia Haider Rahman
Peter Buwalda
Holly Baxter
Rhiannon Cosslett
John Gordon Sinclair
William McIlvanney
Robyn Young
Ann Cleeves
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Herman Koch
Ramita Navai
Deyan Sudjic
Paul Muldoon
Irma Kurtz
Julian Baggini
William Fotheringham
A L Kennedy
Max Egremont
Germaine Greer
Neel Mukherjee
James Rhodes
Paddy Ashdown
Roy Hattersley
Gillian Beer
Frank Gardner
Jeremy Paxman
Sarah Paretsky
David Peace
Bernardo Atxaga
Masha Gessen
Cyprian Broodbank
Rory Stewart
Val McDermid
Lynn Barber
Sebastian Barry
And many more . . . . .
In partnership with writer Louise Welsh and architect Jude Barber, The Empire Cafe
explores 6FRWODQG¶V imperialist past and the surprising cultural legacies that continue to
affect our lives today. With participants from British Guyana, South Africa, India, Canada,
New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Barbados, and Jamaica, the strand includes a
UHKHDUVHGUHDGLQJRI-DFNLH.D\¶VSOD\ The Lamplighter, presented in association with
The Tron Theatre, Glasgow.
Comedians looking back at their life and careers include Francesca Martinez and Omid
Djalili while Katy Brand and Mark Watson discuss their new novels, and Kevin Eldon
brings his alter ego, poet Paul Hamilton.
Stripped, the popular graphic novel and comic strand, returns with the launch of
IDP:2043 a brand new graphic novel commissioned by the Book Festival and published
by Freight. A stellar cast of contributors, including Barroux, Hannah Berry, Pat Mills, Mary
Talbot and Irvine Welsh, together with story editor Denise Mina, lay out a stunning and
unsettling vision of Scotland in 2043.
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transferring their work onto screen, Arne Dahl presents his third novel translated into
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writing sensation Gunnar Staalesen talks about his latest thriller, Cold Hearts.
)ROORZLQJDQHQWKXVLDVWLFUHVSRQVHWRODVW\HDU¶V Reading Workshops, a second series
returns. Stuart Kelly examines Moby Dick, Marcus Sedgwick explores Gormenghast,
Andrew Biswell takes a look at A Clockwork Orange and Debi Gliori celebrates the work
of Tove Jansson on the 100th anniversary of her birth.
Musician and journalist Zoë Howe looks back at the story of The Jesus and Mary Chain
and Viv Albertine remembers her punk career with The Slits in the 70s and early 80s,
Gruff Rhys, lead singer with Super Furry Animals brings his memoir and travelogue,
American Interior. Julian Cope, of 80s sensation The Teardrop Explodes, discusses his
gnostic whodunit novel One Three One, and Willy Vlautin joins us from the USA with his
new novel, The Free.
The National Conversation LVDQDPELWLRXVWZR\HDUGLVFXVVLRQFUHDWHGE\WKH:ULWHUV¶
Centre Norwich. Launching the debate in EdinburghSRHWDQGIRUPHU&KLOGUHQ¶V/DXUHDWH
Michael Rosen argues why books are intrinsic to our survival as human beings and why,
for a nation to thrive, it is essential that literacy and reading are placed at the heart of our
society.
Jura Unbound, the eclectic, funny, surprising, free, live literature evenings in the
Guardian Spiegeltent return offering words, music, magic and more. The full programme
of Jura Unbound, which takes place every night from 10 to 25 August, will be unveiled in
July.
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Wednesday 11 JUNE 2014
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all forms and for all ages from babies to young adults, and everyone in between. There are stories from
many vibrant nations including Ethiopia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Ireland and from bestselling,
established names alongside exciting and emerging talent. There are stories on a wealth of subjects from
Vikings to the First World War, witches to fairies and robots to spacemen.
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celebrating inspiring picture books for toddlers or dystopian fiction for teens, or engaging young people
through our acclaimed schools and outreach programmes, we believe that books and stories are essential
for children and young adults to understand and respond to the complexities of our world.´
&KLOGUHQ¶VIDYRXULWH-XOLD'RQDOGVRQYLVLWV&KDUORWWH6TXDUHGardens with her latest book The Flying Bath.
Carrie and David Grant from hit CBeebies show Popshop are back with another foot-stomping event and
actor Mackenzie Crook brings his new book The Lost Journals of Benjamin Tooth. Indie singer/songwriter
Aidan Moffat of Arab Strap makes his Book Festival debut with The Lavender Blue Dress while Queen of
Teen author Maureen Johnson flies in from New York to talk about the creation of her vivid alternative world.
There has been rise in popularity of modern Gothic fantasy novels for children and young adults and Gill
Arbuthnot, Eleanor Hawken, Cathy MacPhail, Roy Gill, Barry Hutchinson, Piers Torday, Curtis Jobling and
Darren Shan will immerse audiences in their fantastical, and sometimes gruesome, worlds. Among the ranks
of exciting emerging talent in the programme audiences will find fantasy and thriller writers Sally Green, 19
year old Lucy Saxon, Emma Haughton and Rupert Wallis.
Award-winning author Frank Cottrell Boyce drives Chitty into the 21st century with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Over the Moon, his daring third sequel to ,DQ )OHPLQJ¶V RULJLQDO 0LFKDHl Rosen will be popping by to
celebrate \HDUVRIKLVSRSXODUFKLOGUHQ¶VFODVVLF:H¶UH*RLQJRQD%HDU+XQW and Macastory presents a
song-filled retelling of the Battle of Bannockburn.
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Lauren Child, creator of Charlie and LolaLVWKLV\HDU¶VGuest Selector and will be speaking to Judith Kerr,
beloved author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea about childhood memory and imagination and how it has
played into their own creativity. The 2014 Book Festival Illustrator in Residence is James Mayhew, creator
of the popular .DWLH¶V 3LFWXUH 6KRZ and Ella Bella Ballerina. Mayhew is joined by a number of other
illustrators, hoping to inspire young audience members to create characters of their own, including Ed Vere
with Max the Kitten, Petr +RUiþHN and Axel Scheffler, famed for his illustrations of The Gruffalo.
2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the First World War and the French writer and illustrator Barroux is
joined by Michael Morpurgo to discuss his new graphic novel, Line of Fire, based on the diary of a French
soldier while father and son writing duo Tom and Tony Bradman tell Stories of War. Following his bestselling
The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne returns with a moving story of a boy¶s search for his missing father
in Stay Where You Are Then Leave. Mark Greenwood and Frané Lessac tell the story of an Australian
soldier and his horse in a touching account of one of the last great cavalry charges in history.
Siobhan Dowd, an award-winning author, died in 2007 and bequeathed her royalties to a trust with the aim
of bringing the joy of reading for those who need it most. The Book Festival is honoured to host the inaugural
Siobhan Dowd Trust Memorial Lecture, which will be delivered by acclaimed novelist Patrick Ness. His
novel, A Monster Calls, based on an idea of SLREKDQ¶VZRQWKH&DUQHJLH0HGDO.
&KLOGUHQ¶V /DXUHDWH 0DORULH %ODFNPDQ LQWURGXFHV Noble Conflict, her latest political novel for teenagers.
Shrewd insights into the highlights, pitfalls and vulnerabilities of life as a teenager are also covered by
authors Melvin Burgess, Matthew Quick, Cat Clarke, Jennifer E Smith and David Levithan who explores the
true tale of two boys and their record-breaking attempt at the longest kiss in Two Boys Kissing.
Inspirational education activist and Pakistani school pupil Malala Yousafzai makes a rare public appearance
at the Book Festival in the Baillie Gifford Schools Programme giving pupils in Scotland the opportunity to hear
first-hand about her life and her campaign for education.
There are over 60 events in the Baillie Gifford
Schools Programme, which not only brings school parties into Charlotte Square Gardens in August but also
takes authors out to schools across Scotland to interact with students.
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07841 579481 or [email protected]
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Robert Muchamore
Nicola Morgan
Steve Cole
Jacqueline Wilson
Michael Morpurgo
Gill Arbuthnott
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Nick Sharratt
Debi Gliori
James Robertson
Cathy Cassidy
Martin Brown
Charlie Fletcher
Linda Strachan
Anne Cassidy
Rachel Hazell
Tracey Corderoy
David Roberts
Chris Bradford
Philip Ardagh
Tommy Donbavand
Faye Bird
Elizabeth Wein
Chris Riddell
Jonathan Meres
Cendrine Wolf
Anne Plichota
Emer Stamp
Ruth Warburton
Alasdair Hutton
Jane Ray
Wendy Meddour
Adam Murphy
David Long
Jenny Robertson
Kristina Stephenson
Liz Pichon
Marianne Levy
Edward Carey
Alan MacDonald
Keiron Pim
Tom Palmer
Kylie Dunstan
Moira Young
Lydia Monks
Marcus Sedgwick
Matt Haig
Sophie McKenzie
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New for 2014, part of the Book Festival Outreach activities, is the Writer in Residence
project created in collaboration with Lyra Theatre, a community based theatre in
Craigmillar, Edinburgh. For six months, author and artist Catherine Rayner is working
with pupils in St Francis Primary School to create their very own book. The Big Book of
Dreams will compile the stories and illustrations by P1 (age 5) and P6 (age 10) pupils.
The project links in with the work that the school undertakes to help vunerable children
gain access to books and establish a sound bedtime routine.
Award-winning comedian 'DYLG2¶'RKHUW\ brings his first book Danger is Everywhere:
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star and actor Craig Pomranz presents his charming debut Made by Raffi. Actor
Mackenzie Crook pops in with his first two books, The Windvale Sprites and The Lost
Journals of Benjamin Tooth.
Stripped, the popular graphic novel and comic strand, returns with a series of events for
children and young adults, including the launch of IDP:2043 a brand new graphic novel
commissioned by the Book Festival, the Phoenix Comic Workshop and French author
and illustrator Barroux who speaks about his remarkable WWI graphic novel, Line of Fire.
Norse fact meets fiction when Irving Finkel from the British Museum joins popular
novelist Francesca Simon for some Viking adventures.
7KHUH¶VFXGGO\DQLPDOVD-plenty in the gardens. FRUPHU&KLOGUHQ¶V/DXUHDWH Anthony
Browne brings a 30th anniversary edition of his well-loved picture book Gorilla. Hugless
Douglas visits with creator David Melling and Babette Cole introduces her fantastic new
picture book The Wildest West Country Tale of James Rabbit and the Giggleberries, a
hilarious look at animal characters inspired by Beatrix Potter.
For older children, author of the bestselling H.I.V.E series Mark Walden discusses his
latest sci-fi blockbuster Earthfall: Retribution and acclaimed author Joan Lingard, brings
her latest Trouble on Cable Street, which explores the rise in fascism across Europe.
A successful Scottish Commonwealth Games athlete of the last century is celebrated in
a special event by Macastory when they tell the story of Donald Dinnie. In a career
spanning 50 years and 11,000 competitions Donald Dinnie excelled in everything from
sprinting to pole vaulting, hammer throwing to caber tossing.
Every day there are free events for younger readers from the rhyming, reading and
singing Totseat¶s Are you Sitting Comfortably? to Bookbug and even Big Draws! The
Book Festival will host free crafting and art sessions throughout the festival.
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CONVERSATIONS
WITH OURSELVES
In DVVRFLDWLRQZLWK'XUKDP8QLYHUVLW\¶V+HDULQJWKH9RLFHSURMHFW, and with the support of the Wellcome
Trust, we present a series of events examining the medical, spiritual and literary aspects of hearing voices.
Too often viewed as a sign of psychological illness, Conversations with Ourselves places voice hearing
in a broader context, exploring the effects of inner monologues, imaginary childhood friends and the
demands character voices place on a novelist. As a highlight we present a specially commissioned
evening of stories from The Moth, the internationally-acclaimed storytelling organisation from New York.
NATHAN FILER & STEWART FOSTER 9 August 10:15
Voices from Within
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exploration of inner voices, we welcome two authors who
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We Used to Be Kings is a dramatic and innovative debut
novel featuring 18 year old Tom and his long-dead
brother Jack.
THE VOICES IN OUR HEAD
9 August 17:00
Creating Characters in Fiction
The first sign that a book works is when the characters
talk back to their author, and books can represent our
internal voices unlike any other artform. A panel of
award-winning novelists, Nathan Filer, Edward Carey
and Matthew Quick talk about their relationships with
their characters and their inner voices, exploring how a
writer hears and channels the creative voice that drives
a narrative or character.
PATRICIA WAUGH ON BEYOND BLACK
10 August 13:00
Our reading workshops take a close look at a classic text,
literary star or genre. Literary critic and English professor
Patricia Waugh discusses Beyond Black by Hilary
Mantel, which tells the story of a psychic, Alison, who
lives with the incessantly clamouring voices of both the
living and the dead. Expect an open discussion from the
start: you can either explore the work ahead of the event
or be inspired to read it afterwards.
BEST (IMAGINARY) FRIENDS FOREVER
15 August 17:00
The Psychology of Childhood
Remarkably, statistics show that childhood imaginary
friends stay with people throughout their lives. Why do
youngsters need these friends and where do they go
when children grow up? Pip Jones, the author of Squishy
McFluff, and Michael Marshall Smith, who has written
We Are Here, reflect on the world of imaginary friends
with child psychologist and novelist, Charles
Fernyhough.
YOU ARE NOT ALONE
17 August 16:00
First Steps to Coping with Teenage Stress
An established authority on the teenage brain, Nicola
Morgan has now written The Teenage Guide to
Stress. Dawn McNiff¶VQRYHOLittle Celeste follows an
11 year old who finds herself with a baby only she can
see. In Donna Cooner¶V Skinny, an overweight
teenager hears a vicious and undermining voice.
Together these authors discuss how stress can turn
into psychosis, and why talking to someone is a vital
first step to coping.
MAKING MEANING OF THE VOICES
18 August 17:00
Living Happily Hearing Voices
People with severe mental health issues are often
stigmatized by society. Eleanor Longden, a voice
hearer and a qualified psychologist joins James Ley,
a playwright who explores his bi-polar disorder in his
writing, and Robin Murray, professor of psychiatric
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Angela Woods, a lecturer in Medical Humanities.
HAS PSYCHIATRY SILENCED GOD?
22 August 14:00
Creativity and Belief
Throughout history, divine intervention has influenced
great artists, thinkers and leaders, and the voice of
God is a distinct and separate presence in the minds
of many people today. Author and former Bishop of
Edinburgh, Richard Holloway, leads a discussion
with writer Sara Maitland and psychiatrist and
theologian Chris Cook to explore how religious
beliefs and creative inspiration define our
consciousness.
THE MOTH
23 August 20:00
True Stories Told Live
The Moth, the legendary US storytelling organisation,
has created a special one-off evening of stories
inspired by Conversations with Ourselves. Join an
eclectic cast of storytellers from around the world and
all walks of life for a uniquely intimate evening of tall
tales and surprises. Hosted by Scottish writer and
comedian, Lynn Ferguson.
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FUTURE
Leading writers and thinkers from a variety of
political perspectives sketch out their vision
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Future provides a neutral platform for openminded dialogue between authors and
audience members keen to envisage the
shape of things to come:
IAIN MACWHIRTER
9 August 15:00
After the Referendum
Macwhirter argues that after the poll constitutional
change is inevitable. Where will negotiations between
Holyrood and Westminster start, and how are they
likely to end?
DIALOGUE 1: COMMONWEALTH 10 August 19:00
A Relic of the Empire or an Inspiration for
Scotland?
Scottish novelist Louise Welsh, Indian writer Meena
Kandasamy and Jamaican-born Geoff Palmer ask
how the Commonwealth can inform a post-referendum
Scotland.
ALEXANDER MOFFAT & ALAN RIACH
12 August 11:00
The Referendum Debate Could Have Been
Different
Alexander Moffat and poet Alan Riach discuss how the
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fuel broader discussion about the future.
ROBERT CRAWFORD & PAUL HENDERSON
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The Writers Who Seek Independence
12 August 12:30
&UDZIRUG¶VBannockburns traces the literary history of
independence and Henderson Scott discusses the
cultural and political road in Scotland: A Creative Past,
An Independent Future.
DIALOGUE 2: THE UNION
12 August 19:00
What Will the Referendum Mean for the Rest of the
UK?
Can the United Kingdom ever be the same again?
Economist Jo Armstrong and Dick Cole, leader of
the Cornish devolutionist party Mebyon Kernow,
predict what the post-referendum future holds.
GERRY HASSAN & LESLEY RIDDOCH
13 August 15:30
Can Scotland Be Future-Proofed?
+DVVDQ¶VCaledonian Dreaming questions some of the
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wonders if swapping a London elite for an Edinburgh
one will make much difference to the lives of Scots.
DIALOGUE 3: HEALTH
13 August 19:00
Can Scotland Kick its Sugar Habit?
Food writer Alex Renton joins Annie Anderson, a
professor of public health nutrition to discuss solutions
WR6FRWODQG¶VVXJDUaddiction.
DIALOGUE 4: AGEING
14 August 19:00
Can We Afford to Grow Old?
How can Britain make the most of its ageing
population? Susan Deacon chairs a discussion with
Lynne Segal and Paul Johnson, director of the
Institute of Fiscal Studies.
LINDA COLLEY
15 August 14:00
The Reinvention of Britain
In Acts of Union and Disunion, Colley explores the
forces that brought the United Kingdom together and
asks what may be driving it apart.
TOM DEVINE
15 August 18:30
The Darien Disaster: New Perspectives
The failure to establish a Scottish colony on the
Isthmus of Panama has long been viewed as
incompetent. Tom Devine takes issue with this old
orthodoxy and presents a revised telling.
DIALOGUE 5: IDENTITY
15 August 19:00
What Does National Identity Mean in the Digital
Age?
Scotland-based writer Meaghan Delahunt and New
Zealander Witi Ihimaera join Alan Riach to debate
what does local, and national, identity look like for
people who have moved away.
JIM GALLAGHER, GUY LODGE & IAIN MCLEAN
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16 August 11:00
Post-referendum, the ties that bind Scotland to the UK
will be loosened. An analysis of the options are offered
in 6FRWODQG¶VChoices, by three senior political experts.
ADRIAN WOOLDRIDGE WITH ALLAN LITTLE
13 August 11:30
Can Scotland Learn from Scandinavia?
With the UK potentially on the cusp of major
constitutional change, Wooldridge offers a timely
insight into how we can get government right.
HENRY MCLEISH & DAVID TORRANCE
Yes or No, What Next?
16 August 16:30
0F/HLVK¶V The Common Good calls for a new
progressive democratic process, while writer and
broadcaster David Torrance argues for a new union in
Britain Rebooted.
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9 ± 25 August 2014
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DIALOGUE 6: INTERNATIONAL
16 August 19:00
Will Scottish Independence Affect the Rest of
Europe?
How will European citizens react to the referendum
result? Henry McLeish and Slovenian writer Miha
Mazzini are chaired by Nicola McEwen.
DIALOGUE 7: SOCIETY
17 August 19:00
How Can We Reduce Inequality in Scotland?
The SNP argues that independence can create a
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FLWL]HQV¶ -RXUQDOLVW Melissa Benn, author Gerry
Hassan discuss with chair Professor Susan Deacon.
JAMES ROBERTSON
18 August 11:30
What Kind of Scotland Do We Imagine?
James Robertson and Allan Massie open up an
imaginative conversation about the future of Scotland.
DIALOGUE 8: ECONOMIC MIGRATION
18 August 19:00
How Will More Economic Migration Affect
Scotland?
Debating the benefits and pitfalls of welcoming
migrant workers are Susheila Nasta, author of Asian
Britain and Karen Campbell, whose novel is about a
refugee in Glasgow, chaired by Lesley Riddoch.
DIALOGUE 9: SURVEILLANCE AND THE SELF
19 August 19:00
Privacy and Society: Has the State Lost Control?
Do we need to rethink what privacy means and, how
can we balance that with the preservation of society?
Luke Harding and Josh Cohen discuss.
DIALOGUE 10: MEDIA
20 August 19:00
How Can We Maintain Democratic Dialogue?
Newspaper circulations are falling. With the shift to
online activity still far from a profitable how can we
create a viable forum for intelligent discussion? Ruth
Wishart chairs the debate with journalists Iain
Macwhirter, Niki Seth-Smith and Stephen Khan.
GAVIN MCCRONE & JIM SILLARS 21 August 15:30
Scotland After September
McCrone and Sillars argue that the referendum should
not be feared but is an opportunity to rethink Scotland.
DIALOGUE 11: WAR
21 August 19:00
Does Modern Warfare Call for New Defence
Solutions?
The British Government listed a hostile attack on UK
F\EHUVSDFH DV D µWLHU ULVN¶ ± the same risk set for
terrorist attacks. Chris Johnson chairs a discussion
with professors David Galbreath and Paul Cornish on
how Britain can defend itself in the digital age.
DIALOGUE 12: ENERGY
22 August 19:00
Do We Need Fracking to Keep the Lights On?
Some say that fracking is a better bet for future energy
than North Sea oil. Professor Susan Deacon chairs
a discussion with Richard Dixon, director of Friends
of the Earth Scotland.
MURRAY PITTOCK &
CHRISTOPHER A WHATLEY
23 August 15:30
Nationalism and Unionism: the Background
Pittock explores the rise of nationalism within Scotland
in The Road to Independence? Meanwhile Whatley
traces the story of the Scottish-English union in The
Scots and the Union.
DIALOGUE 13: EMPIRE
23 August 19:00
End of the British Empire Links to Scottish
Nationalism?
Has the crumbling of the Empire made the Union a
less attractive proposition? The debate panel includes
Linda Colley, author of Acts of Union and Disunion,
and award-winning historian Tom Devine.
RODERICK BUCHANAN
24 August 11:00
The Legacy of Thomas Muir
Buchanan explores the political reform movement that
thrived in Scotland during the 1790s, in particular the
influence of Thomas Muir. Buchanan is joined by
Johnny Rodger.
DIALOGUE 14: CULTURE
24 August 19:00
Are the Arts in Scotland Radical Enough?
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output lost its revolutionary zeal? Actress Dolina
MacLennan, theatre writer David Greig and former
Barbican Centre boss John Tusa fan the flames of
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25 August 19:00
WRITING THE FUTURE
21 August 18:45
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Being a Writer After the Referendum
Affected By Our Vote?
What will a Yes or a No vote mean to writers living and
Currency, pensions, interest rates, tax: what are the
working in Scotland? Examining the situation are
key economic levers to take into account when voting?
publisher Hugh Andrew, author Alan Bissett,
Economic experts Jo Armstrong and Ronald
Macdonald attempt to shed some light on the topic.
director of British Council Norway Sarah Prosser, and
writer Lesley Riddoch.
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9 ± 25 August 2014
FIRST BOOK
AWARD
The First Book Award celebrates the novels,
novellas and short stories from the 46 writers
who will showcase their debut book (or first
book translated into English) at the 2014 Book
Festival. The Award encourages audiences to
read and vote for their favourite.
NATHAN FILER & STEWART FOSTER
9 August 10:15
)LOHU¶VThe Shock of the Fall announced the arrival of a
QHZ OLWHUDU\ VWDU )RVWHU¶V We Used to Be Kings is a
dramatic and innovative debut novel.
RUPERT WALLIS
9 August 15:30
Wallis has written a novel with a dark heart: The Dark
Inside is unsettling and ambiguous. Meet an assured
new voice for Young Adults.
TOM ELLEN & LUCY IVISON
9 August 17:00
Ellen and Ivison, co-authors of Lobsters, offer shrewd
insights into the highlights, pitfalls and vulnerabilities of
life as a teenager.
C A DAVIDS
9 August 20:30
Davids presents The Blacks of Cape Town, an
astonishingly assured debut novel that traces one
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diamond mine to contemporary South Africa.
MEENA KANDASAMY
10 August 14:00
Rising Indian star Kandasamy retells the alarming story
of farm workers burned to death in Tamil Nadu in her
debut novel Gypsy Goddess.
COLIN BARRETT & ANNELIESE MACKINTOSH
10 August 15:30
Major new Irish talent Barrett and renowned live-lit
performer Mackintosh deliver short story collections
which justify the praise each has already received.
ANNE BLANKMAN & AUDREY MAGEE
10 August 19:00
%RWK %ODQNPDQ¶V Prisoner of Night and Fog and
0DJHH¶V The Undertaking take us deep into 1930s and
40s Nazi Germany as ordinary people begin to
question the lies they have been told.
KIRSTY WARK
10 August 20:00
:DUN¶V GHEXW QRYHO The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle
tells of two women whose experiences highlight a
century of change in the west of Scotland.
KATE TOUGH
11 August 20:30
.DWH7RXJK¶VGHEXWQRYHO Head For The Edge, Keep
Walking offers a vivid and frank portrayal of a young
21st century women.
PETER BUWALDA & ZIA HAIDER RAHMAN
11 August 15:30
In Bonita Avenue, Dutch author Buwalda pens a black
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ZULWHU+DLGHU5DKPDQ¶VIn the Light Of What We Know,
involves a pair of long-lost friends.
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12 August 15:30
+HDOH\¶VGHEXWQRYHOElizabeth is Missing is a gripping
psychological thriller about an 81 year old woman
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MAI AL-NAKIB
12 August 19:00
Kuwaiti author Al-Nakib is a thrilling new voice from the
Middle East. Her debut short story collection The
Hidden Light of Objects offers a stunning perspective
on lives overwhelmed by military or religious events.
ANNA WHITWHAM
13 August 15:30
:KLWZKDP¶V assured debut Boxer Handsome paints a
picture of the dress codes, language and myths that
surround the all-encompassing world of the Clapton
Bow Boys boxing club.
NICOLA WHITE
13 August 18:45
IQ:KLWH¶VGHEXWIn the Rosary Garden, the discovery
of a murdered newborn is linked to another recentlyuncovered infanticide.
EIMEAR MCBRIDE
14 August 15:30
There has been an extraordinary buzz around Eimear
0F%ULGH¶V innovative debut, A Girl is a Half-formed
Thing which has just won the Baileys :RPHQ¶V Prize
for Fiction.
JAMES NAUGHTIE
14 August 18:30
Spy thriller The Madness of July marks 1DXJKWLH¶V
debut and covers loyalty, survival and family rivalry
during the 1970s.
VICTORIA HENDRY
15 August 15:30
+HQGU\¶V GHEXW A Capital Union, taps into the
independence debate as newly-wed Agnes becomes
embroiled in the Scottish nationalist politics of 1942.
KATY BRAND
15 August 20:00
In Brenda Monk is Funny, Brand delivers a dark,
hilarious and candid snapshot of the reality, brutality
and fragility of comedy.
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9 ± 25 August 2014
FIRST BOOK
AWARD
DEA BRØVIG
16 August 10:15
%U¡YLJ¶VGHEXWThe Last Boat Home, conjures up dark
mysteries within a home on the windswept southern
coast of Norway.
NATALIE HAYNES
21 August 10:15
Set in Edinburgh, The Amber Fury is a handsomely
structured psychological mystery and vividly portrays
the dark side of human relationships.
DONNA COONER
16 August 17:00
CoonHU¶V Skinny tackles the pressure teenagers are
under today to look and behave a certain way and
navigate the politics of friendship and enemies.
KIRSTY LOGAN
21 August 14:00
Logan presents her scintillating short story collection of
modern myths and fairytales, The Rental Heart.
SALLY GREEN
17 August 17:00
Green, author of Half Bad, the first book in a new trilogy
billed as Twilight meets Hunger Games, discusses
writing about all things supernatural.
MICHEL LAUB
17 August 18:45
/DXE¶VDiary of the Fall has won major prizes in Brazil.
This story of love between father and son is gorgeous
and heartbreaking.
JESSIE BURTON
18 August 15:30
Burton discusses The Miniaturist, her cutting edge
historical novel set in the Dutch Golden Age.
EMMA HAUGHTON
19 August 19:00
+DXJKWRQ¶VGHEXWNow You See Me, is inspired by the
story of 13 year old Nicholas Barclay who disappeared,
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imposter.
MICHÈLE FORBES
18 August 20:30
Ghost Moth is set in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s
and follows an ordinary couple living through troubled
times.
MICHAEL PITRE
19 August 20:30
Himself a veteran of the Iraq war, Pitre has turned to
fiction and written Fives and Twenty-Fives, a defining
novel of the post-Iraq era.
DANIEL GALERA
20 August 10:15
A novel from one of the most promising authors from
%UD]LO *DOHUD¶V Blood-Drenched Beard features
murder and suicide as a son attempts to discover why
he has lost his loved ones.
LUKE BROWN
20 August 18:45
%URZQ¶VGHEXWMy Biggest Lie, tells of one man whose
inability to be truthful gets him into all sorts of bother.
ROSIE ROWELL
20 August 19:00
The recent history of South Africa is the driving force
behind this new work as Rowell discusses her novel
Leopold Blue.
STEVEN CAMDEN
21 August 18:30
Camden¶V Tape is a wonderful tale of love and loss, of
coming of age and friendship, sprinkled with a gentle
hint of whimsy.
MASON CROSS
21 August 19:00
*ODVJRZ¶V&URVVEXLOGVKLVGHEXWThe Killing Season,
DURXQG D WDOH RI WKH )%, WKH µ&KLFDJR 6QLSHU¶ and a
new kind of investigator.
CLEMENS J SETZ
22 August 10:15
Setz presents Indigo, which takes readers to an
uncanny near future.
S E LISTER
22 August 17:00
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son as he goes on the run and finds himself on a slave
ship heading for the New World.
REBECCA MASCULL
23 August 15:30
,Q 0DVFXOO¶V The Visitors, a girl who is both deaf and
blind communicates only to the ghosts inside her mind
until a new friend helps open up the world to her.
NINA STIBBE
24 August 10:15
6WLEEH¶VGHEXW Man at the Helm, is a story about three
children and their attractive divorced mother. Is it
autobiographical?
LAUREN OWEN
24 August 15:30
Owen gives us her gloriously atmospheric debut novel,
The Quick, a vampire tale set in Victorian England.
E O HIGGINS
25 August 10:15
+LJJLQV¶V Conversations with Spirits envisages a
feckless character enlisted by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
to help investigate a psychic medium.
FAYE BIRD & ALEXIA CASALE
25 August 17:00
Both My Second Life E\%LUGDQG&DVDOH¶V The Bone
Dragon lead the reader right into the main characWHUV¶
hearts of darkness, as each struggles to make sense
of past trauma and find ways to move forward.
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9 ± 25 August 2014
BOOKS
PUBLISHED IN
JULY
JULIA DONALDSON
9 August 10:00
Join the wonderful Donaldson and her merry band as
they perform your favourite picture books including her
latest, The Flying Bath.
NICOLA MORGAN
18 August 19:00
The Teenage Guide to Stress looks at issues including
sexual bullying, body image and conformity.
SUE LAWRENCE
9 August 12:00
The author of Scottish Baking explores the influence of
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20 August 17:00
Boyne has written Stay Where You Are Then Leave, a
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during the First World War.
ROMESH GUNESEKERA
9 August 15:30
*XQHVHNHUD¶V VKRUW VWRULHV, Noontide Toll, offer highly
personal perspectives on the civil war that plagued Sri
Lanka.
PETER ROBINSON
21 August 20:30
Abattoir Blues is the latest edition of this crime writing
VXFFHVVVWRU\DQGLW¶VDQRWKHUKHDUW-thumping thriller with
an infuriatingly good plot.
LAUREN BEUKES
9 August 20:30
$VWDURI6RXWK$IULFD¶VLQFUHDVLQJO\LQWHUQDWLRQDOOLWHUDU\
scene, Beukes returns with a smart, topical, thriller,
Broken Monsters.
MITCHELL SYMONS
22 August 15:00
Symons presents Happily Never After, a wickedly funny
modern take on Hilaire %HOORF¶VCautionary Verses.
LINDA GRANT
11 August 12:00
Grant presents Upstairs at the Party in which an
androgynous couple arrive at a university campus in the
early 1970s and challenJHHYHU\RQH¶VLGHDV
HERMAN KOCH
11 August 19:00
Koch invites us to a Summer House with Swimming Pool,
where a doctor has just lost a superstar patient and is
accused by the widow of murder.
GRAHAM SWIFT
12 August 16:30
With a characteristically sharp eye for comedy, England
and Other Stories homes in on intimate personal dramas
and Swift paints an intriguing portrait of England now.
MARK WATSON
13 August 18:30
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a novel: with Hotel Alpha WKHUH¶VDFXQQLQJDQGKXJHO\
entertaining add-on.
ROBERT CRAWFORD
14 August 10:15
Crawford reads from Testament, his first collection in six
years.
MONIQUE ROFFEY
15 August 10:15
5RIIH\¶V House of Ashes portrays a Caribbean coup
G¶HWDW,W¶VDQoutstanding, compelling, necessary novel.
KARIN ALTENBERG
16 August 10:15
$OWHQEHUJ¶V Breaking Light is set in 1950s Devon and
features friends trying to offset the terror of bullies and
the trauma of family secrets.
DOUGLAS NEWTON
22 August 17:00
1HZWRQ¶VThe Darkest Days presents an examination of
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EHOOLJHUHQFH¶LQLWVFKRLFHIRUZDU in 1914.
DOMINIQUE MANOTTI
22 August 18:45
In Escape, bestselling French author Manotti details two
Italian prisoners who break out of jail. One assumes a
new identity as a bestselling crime writer.
RUTH PADEL
23 August 10:15
Pattern and harmony, even amidst destruction, is at the
heart of Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth3DGHO¶V
first complete collection of poetry for a decade.
LAURIE CAMPBELL
23 August 11:00
Campbell¶Vphotos in Otters: Return to the River reveal
and celebrate the magnificent contribution made by
otters to our countryside.
MICHAEL MORPURGO
23 August 13:30
Morpurgo has edited Only Remembered, a timeless and
seminal anthology of WWI literature for children.
NATALIE YOUNG
24 August 17:00
Season to Taste or How to Eat Your Husband looks at
western obsessions with food.
GREG BAXTER
24 August 19:00
%D[WHU¶VMunich Airport explores hopes and fears in the
minds of everyday Americans. Should we reach for the
stars or find the extraordinary in the everyday?
KERRY HUDSON
25 August 15:30
JESSIE BURTON
18 August 15:30
Fearsomely-talented Scottish author Hudson presents
Burton discusses The Miniaturist, her cutting edge
Thirst, the gorgeous story of a life-affirming love affair
historical novel set in the Dutch Golden Age.
that crosses borders ± both linguistic and cultural.
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Edinburgh
9 ± 25 August 2014
AUGUST
LAUNCHES
The Edinburgh International Book Festival is
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before they are published. Some of the books
getting their first outing include:
JOAN LINGARD
9 August 12:00
Trouble on Cable Street explores the rise of fascism
across Europe and the direct impact on one family.
DAVID EIMER
9 August 12:30
China borders 14 countries and much of what we know
is misrepresented. The Emperor Far Away, uncovers
something closer to the truth.
MATILDA TRISTRAM
9 August 14:00
In a tender and uplifting manner the graphic memoir
Probably Nothing handles the complex subject of a
pregnancy becoming a nightmare.
ALASDAIR HUTTON
11 August 10:30
The Tattoo Fox enjoys further adventures with her
friend Castle Cat in The Tattoo Fox Makes Friends.
TORE RENBERG
11 August 19:00
See You Tomorrow is an eerie neo-noir Norwegian
novel of horror, hope and heavy metal music.
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12 August 10:00
What should you do if a shark comes out of the loo?
The comedian has the answer in Danger Is
Everywhere: A Handbook for Avoiding Danger.
JEAN FINDLAY
13 August 16:00
Written by his great-great-niece Jean Findlay, Chasing
Lost Time is the first biography of C K Scott Moncrieff.
CAROLINE MOOREHEAD
13 August 19:00
Moorhead returns to WWII with Village of Secrets, a
tale of courageous villagers in the mountainous
Ardeche.
JAMES BOOTH
14 August 10:30
Analysing the towering literary figure of Philip Larkin,
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Philip Larkin.
LIN ANDERSON
14 August 20:30
A mysterious voice from the past is the starting point
IRU$QGHUVRQ¶VQHZQRYHOPaths of the Dead, where a
woman is haunted by the voice of her dead son.
VICTORIA HENDRY
15 August 15:30
+HQGU\¶V GHEXW A Capital Union, taps into the
independence debate as a newly-wed is embroiled
with the Scottish nationalist politics of 1942.
MICHAEL LONGLEY
15 August 19:00
Poems on the death of his twin brother and the Great
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The Stairwell.
MARK WALDEN
16 August 14:00
In Earthfall: Retribution Sam and his friends travel to
Tokyo to continue their fight to stop the construction of
Voidborn drilling devices.
KEVIN ELDON
16 August 21:30
Comedy actor Kevin Eldon, tells the story of fictional
cult poet Paul Hamilton in My Prefect Cousin, once
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HELEN MACDONALD
17 August 10:30
In H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald recounts her
obsessive pursuit to become a falconer.
DAVID HARSENT
19 August 10:15
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share dark territory and a haunting, steely, lyrical tone.
TOM POW
19 August 15:30
Concerning the Atlas of Scotland reflects the poet¶V
fascination with maps and the exploration of new
territories.
MICHAEL PITRE
19 August 20:30
The Iraq veteran has turned to fiction with Fives and
Twenty-Fives, a defining novel of the post-Iraq era.
ELAINE PROCTOR
20 August 19:00
The recent history of South Africa is the driving force
behind The Savage Hour.
SUSAN GREENFIELD
20 August 20:00
Mind Change creates the most scientifically rigorous
picture of the influence that screen interaction time is
having on the human mind.
ALAN WARNER
21 August 19:00
Set in 1980s London, two struggling writers penning
calendar captions and trashy novels eke out an
existence in Their Lips Talk of Mischief.
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9 ± 25 August 2014
AUGUST
LAUNCHES
CLEMENS J SETZ
22 August 10:15
Indigo, already shortlisted for the prestigious German
Book Prize, takes readers to an uncanny near future.
SARAH WATERS
25 August 20:00
Set between the wars, The Paying Guests is the story
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DAVID OLUSOGA
22 August 17:00
2OXVRJD¶V 7KH :RUOG¶V :DU presents eyewitness
accounts from multiracial colonial troops, whose key
role in the conflict was airbrushed out by historians.
DAVID BEZMOZGIS
22 August 19:00
The Betrayers transports readers to Jerusalem and
Malta, places of divided loyalty and moral complexity.
MONIR MOHAMED
23 August 14:00
Part photo-memoir, part-cookbook, Mother India Cook
Book FDSWXUHV 0RKDPHG¶V SHUVRQDO MRXUQH\ DQG his
love of cooking growing up and working in Glasgow.
DEBBIE TAYLOR
23 August 15:30
Herring Girl features a 12 year old boy who believes
he is female. When he goes under hypnosis a
terrifying series of truths emerge.
DENISE MINA, PAT MILLS & FRIENDS
23 August 18:45
IDP: 2043, a new graphic novel commissioned by the
Edinburgh International Book Festival, merges
dystopian forms and creates a vision of Scotland 30
years on from now.
THE MOTH
23 August 20:00
The Moth, the legendary US storytelling organisation,
collects together 50 of their best stories, in The Moth.
NINA STIBBE
24 August 10:15
6WLEEH¶V debut novel Man at the Helm, is a story about
three children and their attractive divorced mother.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
24 August 18:30
The rarely-interviewed author has a new novel
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
which sold more than 1 million copies in the week after
its release in Japan.
MARTIN AMIS
24 August 20:00
In The Zone of Interest Amis succeeds in finding
moments of unexpected comedy as love blossoms in
a Nazi concentration camp.
STEVEN GALLOWAY
25 August 10:15
In The Confabulist, Galloway imagines the intrigue
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9 ± 25 August 2014
AUTUMN
PREVIEWS
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AIDAN MOFFAT
10 August 15:30
The acclaimed indie singer/songwriter tells the story
of a little girl who wants a pretty dress for Christmas
in The Lavender Blue Dress.
ROWAN WILLIAMS
10 August 18:30
:LOOLDPV¶ moving and uplifting new collection of
poetry, The Other Mountain, explores moments of
human transformation, whether in body or in spirit.
DAVID KYNASTON
23 August 11:30
Modernity Britain charts the tumultuous period of
change between 1959 and 1962.
JAMES RHODES
24 August 15:00
Instrumental tells the inspirational true tale of a man
whose
upbringing
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calling and taught himself to be a virtuoso pianist.
ELIZABETH WEIN
24 August 16:30
Inspired by little-known moment in history, Black
Dove, White Raven is set in Ethiopia.
SIMON ARMITAGE
24 August 16:30
$UPLWDJH¶VPaper Aeroplane is a major collection of
poems spanning his 25 year career to date, including
translations of Middle English poems and a recent
GUDPDWLVDWLRQRI+RPHU¶VThe Iliad.
WILL SELF
12 August 20:00
Shark FRQWLQXHV6HOI¶VUXPLQDWLRQVRQKXPDQIUDilty
and technological progress with the return of his
maverick psychiatrist Zack Busner.
NICK HAYES
24 August 18:30
Woody Guthrie: And The Dustbowl Ballads tells the
IRONOHJHQG¶Vlife in complex graphic novel form.
HANNAH ELLIS
14 August 10:30
Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration brings
together essays by high-profile admirers which
explore the literary legacy of Dylan Thomas.
AMY BLOOM
24 August 19:00
%ORRP¶V Lucky Us doffs a cap at the American
Dream, exploring the betrayals and big dreams of
two sisters, Eva and Iris.
NICHOLAS PARSONS
18 August 13:30
Parsons has hosted every single episode of Just a
Minute and here outlines his favourite moments from
%ULWDLQ¶VORQJHVW-running radio comedy show.
JOHN LANCHESTER
25 August 14:00
How to Speak Money is a candid explanation of the
world, and words, of finance.
ESTHER FREUD
20 August 20:30
The real-life figure of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
looms large in Mr Mac and Me set in the critical year
of 1914.
OCTOBER PREVIEWS
KATE MOSSE
21 August 18:30
Told over one summer, 7KH7D[LGHUPLVW¶V'DXJKWHU
is the haunting new novel from the bestselling author
of Labyrinth.
LISA APPIGNANESI
12 August 16:00
Appignanesi returns to fin-de-siècle France in
Sacred Ends, the second book in her Belle Epoque
series.
JUSTIN SOMPER
17 August 14:30
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and Assassins.
DAVE GORMAN
22 August 18:30
In Too Much Information, Gorman entertainingly
ponders why we live in a state of data overload.
SPRING 2015 PREVIEWS
SARAH MCINTYRE & PHILIP REEVE
23 August 10:30
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Collaborative teams of leading graphic novelists and artists
imagine Scotland in 2043
with the Edinburgh International Book Festival and Freight Books
The Edinburgh International Book Festival and Freight Books has announced the six teams of major names
in European comics and graphic novels who have collaborated on a new graphic novel which will be
launched in August 2014.
As part of the Stripped programme of graphic novels at the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival,
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authors and artists were commissioned to create a brand new graphic novel. Published by Glasgow-based
Freight Books, the resulting story, IDP: 2043, imagines a Scotland 30 years in the future and explores the
impact of global warming on the country. IDP (short for internally displaced person or persons) follows the
catastrophic effects of a small rise in sea levels on the FRXQWU\¶VKHDYLO\SRSXODWHGORZO\LQJDUHDVDQGKRZ
society reimagines itself in the face of a huge population shift in a world of scant resources.
Scottish crime writer and graphic novelist Denise Mina was appointed as story editor, and has worked with
some of the brightest talents in the European graphic novel world to co-ordinate the six different chapters in
this single narrative.
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Costa Award winning Mary Talbot with artist Kate Charlesworth;
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Enfant terrible of Scottish letters and author of Trainspotting Irvine Welsh with graphic artist Dan
McDaid,
Graphic novelist and illustrator Adam Murphy
Graphic novelist and illustrator Will Morris
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Denise Mina said, 'It has been thrilling to work with such great writers and artists. Each took the images,
characters and narrative to places I couldn't even have anticipated. At its best collaboration is surprising
and stimulating but this was fun too. And everyone was on time.'
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top graphic novelists and artists to Charlotte Square Gardens last summer in our Stripped programme was
just the start. I am thrilled that we will be able to launch our very own graphic novel at the Book Festival this
year. This has been a truly collaborative effort and Denise has done an extraordinary job in pulling together
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exponents of graphic novels. We are also delighted to be working with Freight as our publishing partQHU´
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book festival on such a prestigious project, but also to be working with such a talented collection of
internationally renowned writers and artists. Graphic novels are a hugely important part of our creative
culture and IDP: 2043 LVSURYLQJWREHDKLJKO\HQJDJLQJEXWSHUVXDVLYHZD\RIDGGUHVVLQJFUXFLDOLVVXHV¶
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Festival has a global reputation for championing publishing, literature and creative writing it all its forms,
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medium through the immensely successful Stripped Programme is a perfect example of this.
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incredible scope of the genre and the range of talents involved is represented in this fascinating new
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IDP:2043 will be published in August 2014 and launched at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The
Stripped programme of events in the 2013 Book Festival celebrated comics, graphic novels and the people
who create them. Over 40 events laid bare the incredible scope of this genre, giving audiences a chance to
meet the writers and artists behind this surprising, witty and insightful literary form.
The 2014 Edinburgh International Book Festival runs from Saturday 9 August to Monday 25 August and the
full programme of events can be found on www.edbookfest.co.uk.
LETTERS
HOME
WEDNESDAY 11 JUNE 2014
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A NEW COLLABORATION BETWEEN
THE EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL
AND GRID IRON THEATRE COMPANY
The Edinburgh International Book Festival has announced an exciting new collaboration with multi awardwinning Scottish theatre company Grid Iron, which will form the centrepiece of the 2014 Festival. The Book
Festival has commissioned four internationally acclaimed writers to produce brand new pieces of short
fiction, inviting them reflect on the themes of identity and home in the form of letters between different
characters. These letters have been adapted into a promenade theatre production which will be directed by
four of Scotland's leading theatre artists alongside co-ordinating director Zinnie Harris.
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Expo Fund and is part of the Glasgow Culture 2014 programme, will take place at the Book Festival from 9
± 25 August* with audiences moving between scenes in buildings in and around Charlotte Square,
returning to Charlotte Square Gardens for the finale.
Letters Home have been penned by four leading writers who originate from Commonwealth countries but
who have spent much of their careers living and working away from home;
each has a different
SHUVSHFWLYHRQZKDWµKRPH¶PLJKWPHDQChimamanda Ngozi Adichie from Nigeria is the bestselling author
of Orange Prize-winning Half of a Yellow Sun; Kei Miller is the acclaimed Glasgow-based Jamaican poet
whose PhD thesis was on Caribbean epistolary fiction; Kamila Shamsie, the brilliant Pakistani-British
author, ZDV LQFOXGHG LQ *UDQWD¶V %HVW RI <RXQJ %ULWLVK 1RYHOLVWV LQ DQG Christos Tsiolkas, the
Australian author whose family emigrated from Greece, drew on his cultural experiences in his bestselling
novel The Slap. Their pieces build into a stunningly moving evocation of dialogue as it has shaped
relationships all over the world, and throughout the history of humankind.
Directing the pieces are Ben Harrison, Joe Douglas, Michael John McCarthy and Alice Nelson who, with
co-ordinating director Zinnie Harris, designer Becky Minto, lighting designer Colin Grenfell and composer
Philip Pinsky, create a verbal, visual and musical journey in and around Charlotte Square Gardens.
LETTERS
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festival, Edinburgh always strives to present events in innovative and imaginative forms. This is an
ambitious project and we are thrilled to be working with four visionary writers and their exciting
interpretations of our brief and with Grid Iron who have created an extraordinary piece of theatre which will
premiere at the Book Festival in August. The result is surprising, compelling, and at times very moving.´
Judith Doherty, Co-Artistic Director of Grid Iron VDLG ³*ULG ,URQ DUH ILUVW DQG IRUHPRVW D QHZ ZULWLQJ
company, it is at the heart of everything we do, so to be working alongside Edinburgh International Book
Festival and the four extraordinary writers they have commissioned for us is truly a privilege. To be able to
bring such rich and varied voices from around the globe together with such an exciting group of ScotlandEDVHGDUWLVWVLVDQLQFUHGLEOHRSSRUWXQLW\´
Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs Fiona Hyslop said ³7KH (GLQEXUJK ,QWHUQDWLRQDO %RRN
Festival has grown rapidly in size and scope to become the largest festival of its kind in the world and now
is a key and hugely popular event in the August Festival season. I am pleDVHGWKH6FRWWLVK*RYHUQPHQW¶V
Expo fund allows them to develop further still and commission what is an exciting and innovative project
which will explore new ways of forging dialogue between lLWHUDWXUHDQGWKHWKHDWUH´
Grid Iron is a multi-award winning theatre company committed to producing exciting new work in a variety
of spaces and locations. During the 18 years they have been producing they have amassed 27 awards and
a further 19 nominations covering all aspects of their work from acting, writing and use of music to design,
stage management and technical excellence. (www.gridiron.org.uk).
Tickets for Letters Home are now available from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Box Office
(www.edfringe.com) and will be available from the Edinburgh International Book Festival from Tuesday 24
June (www.edbookfest.co.uk or 0845 373 5888). Full details of the Edinburgh International Book Festival
programme can be found at www.edbookfest.co.uk.
*There will be no performance on Tuesday 12 or Tuesday 19 August.
-endsThe Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme is a partnership between the Glasgow 2014 Organising Committee, Glasgow
Life, and Creative Scotland through National Lottery funding.
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9 ± 25 August 2014
SPONSORS 2014
MEDIA RELEASE
Wednesday 11 June 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE USE
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL WELCOMES THE WELLCOME TRUST
The Edinburgh International Book Festival today announced all its sponsors and supporters for the 2014
Festival. These include an exciting collaboration with the Wellcome Trust, supporting Conversations with
Ourselves, a strand of the programme which explores the effects on voice hearing in creative writing in a series
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Baillie Gifford continue their lead sponsorship of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, with title
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sponsoring book tokens to be given to every pupil attending the Baillie Gifford Schools Programme.
ScottishPower Foundation remains committed to the Book Festival by supporting the ScottishPower
Foundation Studio and the Royal Bank of Scotland are title sponsors of the renamed Royal Bank of Scotland
Garden Theatre. The Guardian, Edinburgh International Book Festival¶V media partner, continues to sponsor
The Guardian Spiegeltent, home of the eclectic, late evening entertainment Jura Unbound, and will be installing
a literary clock in the venue with timely contributions from book lovers.
7KH6FRWWLVK0RUWJDJH,QYHVWPHQW7UXVWRQHRIWKH8.¶Vlargest investment trusts, returns as a Major Sponsor,
sponsoring a range of events covering matters that span the globe. Glasgow based Tangent Graphic, the Book
)HVWLYDOV¶GHVLJQSDUWQHUhave been supportive by providing the brochure and branding artwork. Other Major
Sponsors returning this year include Experian, The Folio Society, Hawthornden Literary Retreat, and Walter
Scott & Partners.
We are also delighted to continue to work with our university partners including The Open University in
Scotland, The University of Edinburgh and The Alwaleed Centre, all of who bring academic expertise and
participants to our programme. A special event this year, sponsored by Edinburgh Napier University, includes
readings from The Hydra magazine produced by patients, including Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, of
Craiglockhart War Hospital during the First World War.
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Edinburgh
9 ± 25 August 2014
SPONSORS 2014
MEDIA RELEASE
The Edinburgh Academy, the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University, and
Springfords are all sponsoring the Edinburgh International Book Festival for the first time. Also new for 2014
are Workflo Solutions, Scottish interiors specialists ANTA, Jump Marketing and Kobo who will be producing an
EPUB version of the printed brochure specifically for reading on tablets and smartphones.
Totseat are now VXSSRUWLQJWKHGDLO\PLQXWHFKLOGUHQ¶VHYHQW7RWVHDW¶V$UH<RX6LWWLQJ&RPIRUWDEO\" Other
returning sponsors include Amnesty International, The List, National Library of Scotland, Scott-Moncrieff,
Scottish Oil Club, The Skinny, Society of Authors, Thomas Miller Investment, Valvona & Crolla and
Waterstones. The Edwin Morgan Trust will be announcing the inaugural winner of The Edwin Morgan Poetry
Award.
Sadie McKinlay, Head of Development at the Edinburgh InternaWLRQDO%RRN)HVWLYDOVDLG³Staging a festival of
this scale would not be possible without support from a host of people and organisations. Not only do our
sponsors and supporters provide financial sponsorship, and sponsorship in-kind but there is the time,
resources and intellectual investment all our partners have made to the Book Festival to ensure we retain our
position as the best book festival in the world.´
-endsFor further information please contact: Frances Sutton, Press Manager
07841 579481 or [email protected]
LET’S TALK
Edinburgh
9 – 25 August 2014
INDEX
Let’s Talk – Edinburgh International Book Festival Launches 2014 Programme
Additional Adult Programme Highlights
Stories from Around the World – Baillie Gifford Children’s Programme
Additional Children’s Programme Highlights
Conversations with Ourselves
Scotland’s Future
First Book Award
Books Published in July
Books Launched in August
Autumn Previews
Dream Team Create Vision of Scotland’s Future
Letters Home
Book Festival Sponsors

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