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Events
Events are listed by date, then city. Submit listings at least ten days before publication to suzanne.black@list.co.uk. Listings are compiled by Suzanne Black.
Thursday 16
Edinburgh
Bruce Parry Dynamic Iiatth. llolyrood Road. 550 7800. 7- ~8pm. £5. The man who has hung out with some of the most remote tribes in the world takes a journey up the Amazon. which he will be sharing in his BBC TV series and a book.
Da Sang 0 da Barren Orange Tree Scottish Storytelling Centre. 4345 High Street. 556 9579. 7pm. £6 (£4). Local poet Christie Williamson recites Lorca’s Spanish poems in Shetlandic Scots accompanied by guitarist (ialo ('eron.
Friday 17 E
Glasgow
Conversation Pieces: David Stafford Royal Concert Hall: Strathclyde Suite. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 353 8000. 1pm. £5 (£4 in advance). Espionage writer. former diplomat and historian Stafford talks about his new book Endgame 1945.
Saturday 18
Glasgow Writers’ Mind Mitchell Library. 201 North Street. 287 2871). Noon 3pm. £3. Discussions chaired by
Professor Willy Maley by writers who have
used the theme of mental health in their work including Alan Bissett. Karen Campbell. Rodge (ilass and Denise Mina.
Edinburgh
m Chris Bradford Borders Books. Fort Kinnaird Retail Park. 657 4041. 2.30pm. The martial arts expert author will be instore for a reading. signing and Q&A about his Young Samurai.
Edinburgh
Cantando y Recitando The Lot. 4 (irassmarket. 225 9922. 7.30pm. £7 (£5). A blend of original songs and poems lead by Chilean poet and singer-songwriter Carlos Arrcdontlo.
Monday 20
Glas ow
Gordon Smith Borders Books. 98
Buchanan Street. 222 7700. 6.30pm. Popular medium Smith talks about his latest book. The Ama:ing Power of Animals. and signs copies.
Edinburgh
nn Edinburgh & Leith Pub Guide The Bow Bar. 80 West Bow. 6pm. The launch of Stuart Mcllardy's intrepid exploration of 174 local drinking establishments.
Tuesday 21 ;
Edinburgh
nu Chris Hoy and Richard Moore Waterstone‘s. I28 Princes Street. 226 2666. 1245- 1.45pm. ()lympic victor lloy. and author of Heroes. Villains and Velmlrrnnex: Chris [lav and Britain '3 Track Cycling Revolution Moore. sign copies of their bicycling book.
Wednesday 22
Glasgow
Gordon Smith Waterstone's. 38 The Avenue. Newton Mearns. 616 3933. 7.30pm. £3. See Mon 20.
Thursday 23
Glasgow Conversation Pieces: Glen Michael Royal Concert Hall: Strathclyde Suite. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 353 8000. lpm. £5 (£4 in advance). The TV
host of Cara/eade will be talking about cartoons and working with the likes of Peter Sellers. Ronnie Corbett and Clint Eastwood over a 60-year career.
FREE Alan Carr Borders Books.
98 Buchanan Street. 222 7700. 1.30pm. The camp comic signs copies of his autobiography. lxmk Who it Is. which. he claims. chronicles childhood embarrassments rather than a tortured past.
Edinburgh
nu John KV Eunson Waterstone‘s. 83 (ieorge Street. 225 3436. 6.30-7.30pm. Ticketed. liunson introduces (‘aledonit‘atimz.' A History of Seal/and with Jokes.
rm Gordon Smith Borders Books. Port Kinnaird Retail Park. 657 4041. 6.30pm. See Mon 20.
Edinburgh
Scottish International Storytelling Festival Scottish Storytelling Centre. 43—45 High Street. 556 9579. Until 2 Nov. Times and prices vary. Scotland’s annual celebration and showcase of storytelling with perfonnance. workshops. talks and children's events.
Glasgow
nu Gordon Smith Borders Books. Fort Retail Park. 390 Provan Walk. 773 2910. 2pm. See Mon 20.
Edinburgh
Shore Poets Mai Thai. The Tun. Jackson's Entry. 1 l l Holyrood Road. 313 2797. 7.45pm. £3 (£2). Dilys Rose. and Priscilla Chueng Nainby and Nancy Somerville provide the poetical entertainment this month.
Tuesday 28
Glasgow
The Wolf and The Howler (‘(‘A. 350 Sauchiehall Street. 352 4900. 8pm. £5. A night of ‘poetry and poets who play music‘ from poetry magazine The Wolf featuring .11. Williams. Lee Scrivner and host James Byrne.
Edinburgh
Neil Gaiman Church Hill Theatre.
33a Momingside Road. 529 41-17. 7pm. £5 (redeemable against purchase). The cult writer signs copies of The Graveyard Bank. his latest novel for young adults. Tickets from www.lidrabmkscom/ events or 0l3l 447 1917.
Wednesday 29
Edinburgh Glen Michael Cameo. 38 Home Street. 0871 704 2052. 7—8pm. £5. See Thu 23. “The 12th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair Out of the Blue Drill Hall. 30—36 Dalmeny Street. Leith. 555 7101. Until 2 Nov. Times vary. Returning for its 12th year. the Radical Book Fair features exhibitions. talks and film screenings.
Thursday 30
Glas ow gnu Gordon Ramsay Borders
Books. 98 Buchanan Street. 222 7700. lpm. The tempestuous chef gets all chtnnmy in his latest book. ('(mkingjrn' Friends. Pop along to the signing. nu Dubravka Ugresic Waterstone’s. I53 -l57 Sauchiehall Street. 332 9|05. 6.30—7.30pm. A visit from Ugresic. author of The Ministry of Pain.
Edinburgh
Poetry Translation Centre World Poets’ Tour Scottish Poetry Library. 5 Crichton's Close. Canongate. 557 2876. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). The otin 2008 reading from the World Poets‘ Tour in Scotland features Kajal Ahmed and Al Saddiq Al Raddi.
Comics
HORROR VARIOUS Creepy Archives Volume 1
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Ten years after the proscriptive Comics Code Authority nailed shut the coffin on the very graphic and highly subversive 19503 EC
horror comics line — Tales 3
From the Crypt, Vault of Horror, etc — publishing entrepreneur James Warren resuscitated the once diabolically popular genre with Creepy and its brother title Eerie. The seven or eight short strips in each issue of the black and white magazine format Creepy didn't quite boast the same gruesome
splendour as their predecessors. nor was the dissident spirit as sharp as the originals (despite the editorial vision of EC fan and comics legend Archie Goodwin). But they did imitate the gleefully macabre tone. and the artwork was uniformly outstanding. The brilliant work of Reed Crandall, Joe Orlando. Frank Frazetta. Al Williamson et al is beautifully reproduced in this handsome hardcover edition, which collects the first five issues of Creepy in their entirety. including the ads — ‘100 feet of film from Lon Chaney's Phantom of the Opera for only 85.95!' (Miles Fielder)
SUPERHERO
CHRIS CLAREMONT & VARIOUS
Marvel Masters: The Tales of Chris Claremont (Marvel UK) coo
Chris Claremont is perhaps the main reason for the international success of the X-Men during the 808 and 908 when they outsold pretty much every other title on the shelves. He wrote
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Uncanny X-Men for a staggering 16 years (from 1975-1991), specialising in long- running epics such as ‘The Dark Phoenix Saga‘ and “Days of Future Past‘. pivotal moments in X-history.
This meaty retrospective from Marvel UK attempts to showcase one of the most prolific writers in comics, however Claremont operates on a grand scale. often complex, convoluted and self-referential, which makes it hard to do justice to with just snippets of his work. There's fun to be had with an Iron Fist story from 1975. a four part X- Men vs Fantastic Four through to issue 100 of Exiles from 2007, but you are likely to find yourself a trifle confused if you are a newcomer to Claremont's universe. (Henry Northmore)
COMIC STRIP LISA MYHRE Nemi 2
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She may be an unpredictable little goth, but you can be damned sure you'd never catch Nemi letting the alternative side down. While real life misfits inevitably do (John Lydon is at it again on the telly. this time with Country Life butter) Norway‘s favourite gloriously sarky and sassy outsider, who captured the attention of the masses with regular appearances in The Metro newspaper. can be relied on to soothe
Our frayed tempers with tales of boy trouble. bad hangovers. dumb blonde-baiting and general twenty- something angst. The second volume of these brightly coloured strips makes for short and snappy reads; a veritable pick and mix of chocolate chomping, mischievous behaviour and wit. but it's during more lengthy stories (such as Nemi‘s darkly comic encounter with her evil stepmother) that we begin to get a more in-depth insight into her unique and compelling psyche. More of this. please. (Camilla Pia)
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JAMIE HEWLETT & ALAN MARTIN The Cream of Tank Girl (Titan) mo
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For Tank Girl fans, this is the book you've been waiting for; a glossy retrospective covering her anarchic antics from 1988 until today. including an honest account of her Hollywood hell (neither writer Alan Martin or artist Jamie Hewlett liked the movie. in fact they hated it).
Hewlett's detailed iconic art was always the biggest appeal of TG and here we revel in pages and pages of art work. Deadline covers. snippets from the strips and a rough and ready history of British comics' favourite tank driving, beer swilling, kangaroo shagging anti- heroine.
(Henry Northmore)
WIN CREAM 0F TANK GIRL
And if you'd like to win a copy of the gorgeous coffee table The Cream of Tank Girl compendium we have five copies to giveaway. Just head over to www.1ist.co.uk/offers by 30 Oct.
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