EIBF 2008: Sunday 17th August
10.15am - Poetry - Don Paterson & Robin Robertson
The perfect pairing of two of the profoundest Scottish poets: revelatory, complex and world class. Robin Robertson’s fabled gifts now offer a powerful modern version of that greatest of tragedies, Medea; while Don Paterson, also internationally renowned, gives us fleeting, bright aphorisms of our lonely human consciousness in The Blind Eye.
2.30pm - Fiction - Ken MacLeod
One of the most imaginative science fiction writers of our times, Scottish author Ken MacLeod always connects his alternative universes tightly into our own, shedding new light. His brand new book The Execution Channel, is a futuristic thriller set in a war-torn Middle East where a father fights to rescue his soldier-son and protester-daughter.
6.30pm - Fiction - Christopher Brookmyre
Our second dose of the brilliant Christopher Brookmyre. With A Snowball in Hell, the acclaimed crime writer takes on celebrity culture and reality television with a deadly comic touch.
8.30pm - Fiction - Ron Butlin, Linda Cracknell & Angus Dunn
Superb short stories by Scottish writers. In No More Angels Ron Butlin – the new Edinburgh Makar – explores individual lives with a lightness of touch that cuts right to the heart. Linda Cracknell’s stories in The Searching Glance are multi-layered and brood with longing. At the heart of Angus Dunn’s The Perfect Loaf is a young man thinking about his life as he bakes bread.
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Add to BasketThe Blind Eye: A Book Of Late Advice - Hardback -
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'The Blind Eye' is Don Paterson's second collection of aphorisms. Funny, irreverent, wise and sad, this collection not only entertains but also leads us to ponder on the dark and light that make up the human condition. -
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As the European bloc and the US play games of brinkmanship which bring them closer to war, Britain finds itself on the political fence. Recent policy binds it to the US but history and geography tend it towards Europe. A decision one way or another is becoming imperative. Unfortunately for Britain, not everyone is prepared to wait. -
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The stories in 'No More Angels' capture the idiosyncrasies of modern life. A widower struggles to keep his family on the tracks after the death of his young wife, a schoolboy counts down the days, hours, minutes to a friend's party, and a house tour is conducted with the unspoken stench of parenticide hanging in the air. -
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Angus Dunn's short stories display a perceptive intelligence and individual insight into human behaviour. He has the ability to suggest a depth and complexity of human motivation behind the ordinary events in people's lives. -
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Linda Cracknell's stories are multi-layered and brooding with longing and loss, allowing the reader a 'searching glance' at characters' lives. With touches of the surreal and hard strokes of reality, these stories will linger in the mind. -
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If society has the B-list celebrities it deserves, it now has a killer to match. Except that Simon Darcourt is a great deal more successful in his career choice than the average talent show contestant. He's also got the media taped by the simple expedient of bypassing them completely and posting his killings on the Internet.