EIBF 2012 Wednesday 22 August

10:15 Claire Kilroy & Adam Thorpe
Defying Market Forces
Two writers whose novels are taking them in exciting new directions.

11:00 Dennis O’Donnell
Warding Off Some Dark Memories.
Recounting the stories of patients and friends in The Locked Ward.

11:00-12:30 Writing Workshop
The Art Of Performance
Performance poet Tim Turnbull explores how performance can improve your writing.

11:30 Stef Penney
Why Don’t They Want to Find Rose Janko?
Ray Lovell aims to uncover the truth for a distraught father in The Invisible Ones.

15:00 Quitin Jardine
Is This the End for Britain’s Toughest Cop?
The 22nd novel featuring DCI Skinner Funeral Note.

Ros Barber & John Connell
Inside the Minds of Conan Doyle and Marlowe
Join the authors as they discuss how it felt to occupy another author’s mind.

16:30 Liz Lochead
An hour with Scotland’s Poet Laureate.
Lochead reads from her recently published selection, A Choosing.

18:30 Ian McEwan and Alex Salmond
A Great British Writer Meets Scotland’s First Minister
Scotland’s First Minister talks about life beyond politics with Ian McEwan.

20:00 Iain Banks
It’s Grimly Funny Up North
Iain Banks is back on non sci-fi territory with Stonemouth.