The programme for the Edinburgh International Book Festival is now available.
From an initial look through, the crime fiction related events are as follows:
Saturday 14th August - 18.45 - Lin Anderson and Aline Templeton - Dark mysteries from two of Tartan Noir’s finest
Sunday 15th August - 20.00 - Tess Gerritsen - Taking the thriller genre into chilling territory
Monday 16th August - 11.00 - Writing Workshop - A Web of Characters - with Lin Anderson
Monday 16th August - 14.00 - The Writing Business - with Lin Anderson and Caroline Dunford
Monday 16th August - 18.45 - Alex Gray and G J Moffat - Glasgow is the scene of two tense tales of city crime
Monday 16th August - 20.00 - Iain Banks
Tuesday 17th August - 11.00 - Writing Workshop - Creating A Fictional Series - with Caroline Dunford
Tuesday 17th August - 16.30 - Reggie Nadelson and Ian Rankin - Two crime writers discuss one brilliantly believable detective
Tuesday 17th August - 19.00 - Reginald Hill - Dalziel & Pascoe writer delivers a pacy psycho-thriller
Tuesday 17th August - 20.00 - Christopher Brookmyre
Tuesday 17th August - 20.30 - Tony Black and Gillian Galbraith - Edinburgh’s mean streets keep bringing out their dead
Thursday 19th August - 15.00 - Quintin Jardine - Edinburgh streets continue to be paved with bodies
Thursday 19th August - 18.30 - Ian Rankin
Friday 20th August - 11.00 - Writing Workshop with Aline Templeton - Crime Writing: Getting Away with Murder
Friday 20th August - 15.30 - Denise Mina - plus Amy Bloom and Alan Warner - with readings of short stories
Friday 20th August - 18.45 - Denise Mina and Stuart MacBride - Glasgow and the Granite City offer up perfect settings for blood-sodden books
Saturday 21st August - 15.30 - Declan Hughes and Stuart Neville - Modern crime novels given an Irish twist
Sunday 22nd August - 18.00 - Karen Campbell and Simon Lelic - Two novelists stretching the boundaries of crime fiction
Sunday 22nd August - 18.30 - Jasper Fforde - A Pythonesque world of glorious technicolour
Sunday 22nd August - 19.00 - Louise Doughty (with Blake Morrison)
Monday - 23rd August - 14.00 - The Writing Business - Making Crime Pay - with Aline Templeton, Lin Anderson and Caroline Dunford
Monday 23rd August - 18.30 - Ian Rankin
Tuesday 24th August - 18.00 - Craig Russell - Digging into Glasgow’s past for a new noir hero
Tuesday 24th August - 20.00 - Alexander McCall Smith - in conversation with Andrew Sachs
Wednesday 25th August - 15.00 - Mark Billingham - Award-winning crime writing from former stand-up comic
Wednesday 25th August - 16.00 - Shona MacLean and Shirley McKay - Two bright new voices in historical fiction
Wednesday 25th August - 19.30 - Alice Thompson (plus Paolo Giordano) - Haunted by a loved one who's gone missing
Thursday 26th August - 16.30 - M J Hyland - A profound and moving portrait of a singular man
Thursday 26th August - 18.45 - Alexander McCall Smith - Sampling the flavours of the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (about food)
Friday 27th August - 11.30 - Joanne Harris - An Audacious Thriller for the Internet Age
Friday 27th August - 13.30 - Alexander McCall Smith - New perspectives on the beloved author’s popular characters
Friday 27th August - 18.45 - Philip Kerr - A detective novel that crosses boundaries
Saturday 28th August - 12.00 - Alexander McCall Smith (for children)
Saturday 28th August - 18.30 - Alexander McCall Smith
Saturday 28th August - 18.45 - Michael Ridpath and Martin Walker - Exposing Fictional Scams in a Corrupt Modern France
Monday 30th August - 10.15 - Louise Welsh - Glasgow writer with a tale of literature, sex and black magic
Monday 30th August - 15.00 - Ian Rankin (talking to Antonia Fraser about her relationship with Harold Pinter)
Monday 30th August - 16.30 - Frederick Forsyth - The war on drugs just got bookish
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looks pretty good.
ReplyDeletesadly, 16th august is when schools go back after the holiday, so that messes things up a little on my side.
advice to all is to book early - things do sell like baked bananas.
What a line up. Sucks to be so far away.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the heads up on Allen Guthrie. Just getting into "Hard Man" and I frikken love it, in the same way I loved "The Big-O". This is the style and crime genre that is my favorite, by far. Going to start "Slammer" tonight. Getting a nice education on Scotland too!
The crime writing workshops by Lin Anderson and Aline Templeton last year were very good.
ReplyDeleteCan I mention a few more crime-related events...
* Joyce Carol Oates on 29th.
* Alan Bisset with Danish writer Lars Husum on 18th.
* Laura Marney doing a workshop on 28th.
* Craig Russell ("Neo-Noir") on 24th.
* Caroline Dunford, workshop on 17th.
* Louise Doughty on 22nd.
Nigel - good advice - they certainly do!
ReplyDeleteSean - glad you're enjoying Al's books - he's brilliant.
Tim - I've added Caroline Dunford and Louise Doughty (I've also added Caroline Dunford to my links list - I wasn't aware of her - thank you!). Unless I'm missing another event I already have Philip Kerr? I toyed with including the other three - along with John Banville - but decided against them as the focus was not crime fiction related (I've not read DEATH OF A LAIES MAN - do you know if it has any crime fiction relatedness?) - I definitely fancy the Alan Bissett event though.
Tim,
ReplyDeleteJoyce Carol Oates' "Zombie" is one of my favorites.
The book festival is so good - such a contrast to the fringe. It sounds like the new director has taken up the baton and it should be just as good as ever. Enjoy Edinburgh through Edinburgh Self Catering
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