Discussion Groups @ Borders

Odeon Film Discussion Group Tuesday 13th July at 6.30pm.

Ifyou love movies you ('an 'I afford not to be here.

Science Fiction/Horror/Fantasy Writers’ Workshop Tuesday 13th and Tuesday 27th July at 8pm.

()urfortnightly workshop, where you ran diseuss you work. Scottish Fiction Discussion Group

Saturday 17th July at ll.3()am.

Robin Jenkin 's Fergus Lamont

Science F iction/F antasy Discussion Group

Wednesday 28th July at 7.30pm.

Fritz Leiher's genre making lll met in Lankhmar

Scottish Fiction Discussion Group

Saturday 17th July at l 1.30am.

Robin Jenkin 's Fergus Lamont

New Group

The Patrick Moore Astronomy Group

Meets the first Thursday of every month.

This ereiting new group gives you the opportunity to dist-over the wonders of the sky at night. Front talks to observatory visits to informal dist‘ussimts.

Plus

Weekly creative writing groups and fortnightly writing master classes.

And a fortnightly poetry writing group.

10% off all featured discussion group titles until the date of the group meeting.

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From humble origins in a quiet mountain village to owning a huge business empire, Stakis has become a household name. Now for the first time, Jack Webster tells the full story of this

remarkable rags to riches tale.

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Saturday 10th July at 12.30pm

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90 THE UST 8—22 Jul 1999

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EVENTS

THURSDAY 8 1

Glasgow

Harry Potter Day Waterstone's. 153—157 Sauchiehall Street. 332 9105. 2pm. Free. The official launch of J.K. Rowling's new book Harry Potter And The Prisoner ()frlzkahan (Bloomsbury

£10.99). See preview and kids listings.

Robert Crawford, Michael Symmons Roberts and Robin Robertson Borders Books. 283 Buchanan Street. 222 7700. 8pm. Free. Contemporary poetry with

Robert Crawford reading from his new

collection Spirit Mae/tines. Michael Symmons Roberts discusses his first collection of poems Soft Keys and Robin Robertson. editor of authors such as Irvine Welsh. Alan Warner and AL Kennedy talks about his work.

Edinburgh

Harry Potter Day James Thin. 53—59 South Bridge. 622 8222. 3.45pm. Free. Thins celebrate the launch of J.K. Rowling‘s new book. See preview and kids listings.

East Kilbride

David R. Ross ()ttakar's Bookstore. Unit 1. Princes Square. 01355 217835. 7—9pm. Free. The popular historian and author of ()n The Trail Of Robert The Bruce ( Luath Press £7.99) talks about Scotland's great hero-king.

SATURDAY 10

Glasgow

Jack Webster Borders Books. 283 Buchanan Street. 222 7700. 12.30pm. Free. Webster's new book tells the inside story of Reo Stakis. who from a relatively humble up-bringing. set up Stakis Hotels and casinos.

Edinburgh

Gordon Legge Waterstone‘s. 128 Princes Street. 226 2666. 7pm. Free. One of Scotland‘s bright young things on the literary scene. Legge‘s latest collection of short stories New Neighbours (Vintage £6.99) spans music. drugs. football. fetishism. cross-dressing and family drama. He will be reading some of his snapshots of family life.

TUESDAY 13

Glasgow

Tony Parsons Waterstone‘s. 153—157 Sauchiehall Street. 332 9105. 7pm. £2 (£1) with ticket price redeemable against book. [ix-husband ofJulie Burchhill and highest paid journalist at The Mirror of his generation. Parsons‘ novel Man And Boy (HarperCollins £12.99) is a loosely biographical account of bringing up a child alone after marital breakdown.

WEDNESDAY 14

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I Cindy Blake Dillons. 174 Argyle Street.

248 4814. 7pm. Free. Blake reads from and signs copies of her new novel It is My Party (Simon & Schuster £9.99). Timothy Mo Waterstone‘s. 153—157 Sauchiehall Street. 332 9105. 7pm. £2 (£1) with ticket price redeemable against book. Booker prizewinner Timothy Mo reads from his latest book Renegade 0r Hit/02 (Turnaround £17.99).

1' THURSDAY 15

Edinburgh

Robert Rankin Waterstone‘s. 13—14 Princes Street. 556 3034. 7pm. Free. Rankin‘s reads from his latest work Snufl Fiction (Doubleday £16.99) which is set at the end of the millennium when chaos ensues.

Family tree: Gordon Legge reads at Princes Street Waterstone's, Edinburgh Mon 12 Jul

SUNDAY 18 3

Glasgow Robert Knox Borders Books. 283

Buchanan Street. 222 7700. 8pm. Free.

Performance poet. Robert Knox hosts this regular poetry evening giving writers and performers the opportunity to share their work.

5 MONDAY 19

Edinburgh

Antonia Swinson And Robert Llewellyn James Thin. George Street. 225 4495. 6.30pm. Free. Red Dwarfstar Robert Llewellyn reads from I’unehhag (Hodder & Stoughton £9.99) and Edinburgh author Swinson reads from The Cousin 's 'Iitle (Hodder & Stoughton £6.99).

TUESDAY 20 ,

Glasgow David R. Grant Dillons. 174 Arger

1 Street. 248 4814. 7pm. Free. Reading.

signing and discussing The Seven Year Hiteh (Simon & Schuster £16.99). the true story of a Scottish family‘s incredible journey around the world in a horse drawn caravan. With free wine. Alan Spence Watcrstone's. 153—157

I Sauchiehall Street. 332 9105. 7pm. Free.

Way To Go (Orion £6.99) is being launched in paperback with a reading by the author.

Edinburgh

Dilys Rose Waterstone‘s. 128 Princes

: Street. 226 2666. 7pm. Free. Waterstone's

features yet another of the cream of

Scottish literary talent. This time. the author reads from her highly acclaimed new novel Pest Maiden (Review £9.99).

a coruscating story of blood. microbes and plague.

Glasgow Scottish Poets' Night Waterstone‘s.

153—157 Sauchiehall Street. 332 9105.

7pm. Free. Join Brian McCabe. Kevin

MacNeil and Janet Paisley for a night of poetry which promises to be an exhilarating evening of readings from their recent collections.

Thompson Davis Dillons. 174 Argyle Street. 248 4814. 7pm. £1 with ticket price redeemable against book. The launch of her eagerly awaited new novel in paperback The Glasgow Belle ( B&W Publishing £5.99).

Reading Group Waterstone‘s. 153—157 Sauchiehall Street. For more information contact Tessa Bowler on 332 9105. 7.30pm. Free. The group discuss Hanover

, Square by Patrick Hamilton.