Ronald Frame listing. SAN/mi. The Scottish Book Of The Year winner deliyers the Saltire Society Lecture. on post- devolutionary Scottish culture.
Miranda France 22 :lllk’. 6pm. l‘ortncr visual arts editor at The [is] chats abotit her venture into travel writing and. in particular. her wordy trip into the heart of Don Quixote country.
Frances Fyfield & Ruth Dudley Edwards lasing. .i’..i’(l/nn. lan Raiikiti hosts this crime event. both fact and fiction.
Peter & Leni Gillman I7.'lue. 6.45pm. Iixploring liverest with this husband and wife teatn.
Graham Hancock 3/ :lue. Spin. Alternative history from a true pioneer of the subject.
Joanne Harris /<\’.vlue. (Lil/[1H]. UK. so ('hoi'o/at the film was rubbish. bill the book is it different kettle of tiction. lime to tneet the author.
Meg Henderson 33.1112. It)..i‘llani. (ilasgow stories from the popular author of ('hasing xlnee/x.
Reginald Hill 3/ :lug. 3.30pm. l.o\ c I)al:iel A'- I’aseoe'.’ Meet the man behind the dynamic dtio.
Tobias Hill 8. Diran Adebeyo I," Aug. II..i’()aIn. 'I‘wo fine authors whose early fiction is imbued with the whys and wherefores of London life.
Wendy Holden 8; Tania Kindersley l7.-lug. 5.30pm. The lighter sides of se\ and Class are discussed by these bestselling authors.
How to Get Started 30 :lue. (i/nn. You've got the idea. but how do you get those opening words on the page'.’ Hugh Rae tells you how.
0 Imprisoned Writers ('nlil 2,".vtug. 5.30pm. lop writers from the day ‘s e\ents read froin a writer who has been ptit away for their beliefs.
Clive James /7.-lue. (Lil/[NIL liveryone's fayourite Aussie tapart from (‘rocodile Dundee. And (iermaine (ireer. And Kylie) chats about llls wonderful life. 0 RD. James with Ian Rankin 22 Aug. ll..\‘()am. See preyiew
Quintin Jardine To xlue. 5pm. He may not sell as many books as lati Rankin btit his vision of tidinburgh through the eyes of Bob Skinner is just as potent.
Robin Jenkins, James Robertson & Allan Massie lull/(Q. I’ll/lam. 'l‘ht'ec
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generations of top Scots congregate for brekkie and discuss their notions of the past.
Paul Johnston & Robert Wilson .33 sine. .i’..i’(I/nn. .\lore criminal minds get together with lidinburglvbased author l’aul Johnston hooking up with l’ortugal l‘L‘SltlL‘tll Rtilk‘l‘l “illsotl.
Jackie Kay & Sapphire In .tue. 5pm. Jackie Kay arid Sapphire. two extraordinary black women writers began as poets and haxe now written acclaimed novels. Kay. born iii lidinburgh. brought tip in (ilasgow and now residing iii Manchester. won the Saltire pri/e for her poetry collection. IlieAt/o/i/ion I’a/ierx. while her gay. mining drama In i/ie/Il Shift was produced by 718-1 theatre. .v\nd Trumpet must cottnt as one of the best Scottish no\els of recent _\e;tt’s. lmbtted
\\ ith it restraint and tenderness. it e\p|orcs the life and death ofiaH trumpeter. .loss .\loody. who lixed as a man but was born a woman. New York~bascd Sapphire has a new collection of 47 poems. lilac/s ll'ingx .-\m/ [flint/.tnge/x about to be published by (‘anongate Her inspiring noer I’m/i receiycd raxes in the press. w ho marx elled abotit how the story of a 10-year old Hl\' positi\ e. illiterate mother cotild inspire. It does. Llohn Binnicl
A.L. Kennedy IN-lue. llLJ'llo/n. ()nc of otir most distinguished and amusing ltllettls entertains the early t‘lsel's. \Vlto will undoubtedly rush otit afterwards and get lateral/tine You .\.t'('t/.
Randal Keynes 8. Frances Spalding 22 .lue. n‘..~‘tI/mi. two distinct \ iew s on the godfather of cyolutiott with Darwin‘s great great grandson Randal Keynes and l‘rances Spaldiiig. the biographer of ( ‘harlie‘s granddaughter. 0 Naomi Klein with Will Hutton 30 glue. ."..\'lI/wi. The author of No Logo chews the fat with the liea\yw eight economist as the anti-globalisatioii debate rages on. Btit in a peaceful way.
Naomi Klein, George Monbiot, Alan Rugman 8. John Burnside 3/ .‘lllk’. .i'..\'l)/nn. Democracy arid the multi-nationals (surely a contradiction in terms) is the subject of this afternoon‘s debate.
Christopher Knight 8: Robert Lomas fllglue. "Hill/mi. :\ti oll-kiltcr e\ cning for fans of esoteric history
e\ cry where. 'l‘urin Shroud. pyramids. the Knights 'l‘emplar. all that malarkey. Hanif Kureishi 3.3 .lue. Spin. Sec
prey iew.
Gael Lindenfield 22 .tug. “Lilla/n. l’sy chology and parenting adx ice trom iltllltttl' Hi ( .(III/ltlt'lll li'r'llv
Sven Lindqvist Mixing. 12..i’()/mi. ()ne of Scandinavia's top writers discusses our love affair with the desert. As in sand ttot
David Lodge 2/ xlllL’. [1.30am Some critics have described David Lodge's output as containing varying quantities of academics and adultery and his last novel. Thinks. didn't really break that mould. dealing as it did with the relationship between Ralph. a married Al researcher and Helen. a widowed novelist. Btit it's much more than a campus farce. told through an entertaining mix ofjournal entries and dictated musings. picking through the my stet‘ies of eonseiottsness with sharp. wry humour. Since his first noy cl. 1960‘s The l’lt‘Itll‘t’eoers. Lodge hits cars ed a niche for himself as an author readable enough to bother the bestseller lists. and literary enough to work his noy els around classical allusions and garnish them with postmodern flourishes. He's also had time to offer a trenchant critique of post—stt'uetttt‘;tlisl thinking in After Ifahklin. although he's unlikely to bother too much with dense tlteot'y today.
(James Smart) Andrew Lownie 19 :lue. 7pm. I.ownie takes a stroll down the memory latte of lidinburgh‘s literary history.
Josie Lloyd & Emlyn Rees, Mike Harrison & Jane Johnson 20.4w. 3.30pm. How can two people write one book'.’ l‘ind otit with those who won‘t go it alone.
Patrick McCabe, Jackie Kay 8: Bill Duncan I/ixlue. Il)..i'()am. .-\ treat for oners of the authentic ‘voice' in literature. We particularly recommend l)undonian Bill Duncan's The Smiling Se/ioo/ l-in'('ali'ini\1\. which earned a five- star [in rey iew earlier this year.
Maria McCann, Betsy Tobin 8. Jane Stevenson 22 slug. 4pm. A trio of contemporary historical novelists tell all about their passion for the past.
Claire Macdonald 2/ xlue. ifltipni. ’l‘op Scottish chef spouts forth on foody writing.
Bernard MacLaverty I’oin! ('onlerenee Centre. If) .‘lllL’. 9.45am. (ilasgow -bascd l'lstct‘tiian may w ell take the opportunity to plug his forthcoming noy el The :lnatomy School.
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We should all throw our hands in the air and sing Hosanna for
New Scottish Writing
Hanif Kureishi 22 Aug. 7pm. Hanif Kureishi hasn‘t given his readers much to smile about lately. After the comic hedonism and incisive social commentary of The Buddha ()fSuhurhia and The Black Album. his recent work has alienated rather than broadened his appeal. The collection Love In A Blue 'Iime was made of wrist- slitting stuff indeed. while Intimacy — about a man who leaves his family out of sheer boredom ~ seemed less a work of fiction than an act of purgatory and an ugly diatribe. full of sound and fury. signifying
lti amongst all this angst. Kureishi's screenplay for the film My Son The Fanatic was the moving. funnyl account of a liberal Muslim's struggle with his son‘s fundamentalism. His latest novel Gabriel '3 Gift partially returns the author to his best form with the tale of a teenager who conspires with the ghost of his twin brother to reunite their parents. Yet. compared to his early works. Gabriel is a cynic's eye-view of the disapimintments and disillusionment brought by middle-age.
Kureishi‘s appearance will allow interested parties to quiz him on his controversial writing career. comprising prose. plays and screenplays. He may even reveal his views on the notoriously explicit. yet strangely dull film version of Intimacy. (Allan Radcliffe)
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Aonghas MacNeacail, Luke Sutherland 8. Suhayl Saadi 20 Aug. 10.30am. A trio of Scottish writers front very different cultural backgrounds come together meet tip for some breakfast banter.
Edward Marriott & Robert Nigger 2(Ixiug. 11.30am. Hip travel stories about weird animals in distant lands.
Andrew Miller & Orhan Pamuk 2!) :lug. 1.30pm. Miller. whose Ingenious I’ain startled and atiiused in equal measure. is joined by 'I‘urkey‘s biggest selling author. Pamuk's My Name Is Red tackles the tricky subject of religious fundamentalism.
Jenni Murray lo’xlue. 3.30pm. ll'omen 's Hour presenter with a humorous and hottest discussion about a subject which is difficult for either sex to chat about: the menopause.
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1 1:9 [6 Aug. 6.30pm. Scottish publishing success stories are about as rare as hen's teeth. So we should all throw our hands in the air and sing Hosanna for I 1:9. a new publishing house based in (ilasgow which has already met with acclaim after less than a year in business. Launched in October 2000. l l:‘) was set tip with the help of 1220.000 frotn the Scottish Arts (‘ounci|. and their remit is to publish new dynamic fiction by established and unknown homegrown talent. This event sees half a dozen of
l l:‘)‘s writers reading frotn and discussing their work in what should be a frisky and energetic evening. ()h. in case you were wondering. the name refers to 1 1th September 1997. when we voted for the Scottish parliament. (Doug Johnstone) Ricardo Pinto Io’Aue. ll..i’()am. Edinburgh-based Sl‘ prospect l’into chats about his vast trilogy Stone Dance Of The (‘hameleons And the colour of a flamingo‘s tongue.
Jonathan Power Mixing. 6.45pm. Journalist Power traces the history of Amnesty International.
Giorgio Pressburger 17 Aug. I._\’()/nn. This ltalian author chats about love and innocence and all that stuff. as expressed in his recent book Snow xllltl (iui/I.
Peter Raby 22 Aug. 2.30pm. More biography banter with the chronicler of the main characters iii the evolution debate. (‘ontroversy and heckling expected.
Alastair Reynolds 8. Paul McAuley losing. l.~l5/nn. Sl" fans should zap along to this one: astrophysicist Reynolds is being hailed as the new Arthur ('. (‘larke while McAuley is a former lecturer whose The Secret (2/ Tile will scare the bejesus ottt of anyone with an interest iii biotechnology. Graham Robb /7.-lug. 3.30pm. The biographer of Rimbaud lets loose on the past.
Willy Russell I‘L-tug. 6.30pm. A name that sliotild need no introduction. Willy Russell is one of the most well-known and well-loved playwrights in British theatre. Author of Iz‘iliit'ating Rita. Shirley lit/entine and Blood Brothers. his most recent work is a semi-autobiographical novel. The ll'rong Ii’ov. He will be reading from this as well as entertaining his fans with anecdotes and observations frotn his many years in the business.
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Science Writing l7.-lu‘e. 6pm. lirieh Hoyt guides you through the business of penning science and nature non-fiction. Matt Seaton, Tim Moore 8. Charlie Woods 31-inch I2..i'()/nn. Long-distance cycling may not appear to be the most amusing of topics. Well it is. as this trio will reveal.