A.D Miller @ Edinburgh International Book Festival

WHAT IS GOING ON IN RUSSIA?

With Andy Kurkov

A D Miller was the Economist’s Moscow correspondent for three years and Snowdrops is a riveting psychological drama that asks whether Moscow is corrupt, or whether a young English visitor is merely asking to be corrupted. Snowdrops has recently been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the CWA Gold Dagger Award, with shortlists for both awards to be announced in the coming weeks.

Event details:  

Friday 26^th August

8.30pm-9.30pm

RBS Corner Theatre

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Praise for Snowdrops:

‘Tightly written.... Miller’s complex, gripping debut novel is undoubtedly the real thing.’ John Harding, Daily Mail

‘Sophisticated and many-layered’ The Spectator

David Miller @ Edinburgh International Book Festival

TIGHT AND TAUT TALES OF INTER-WAR EUROPE

With Dan Vyleta

It’s August 1924 and John Conrad arrives at his parents’ home on the outskirts of Canterbury. But as guests converge, John's father (the rather famous Joseph) dies. Miller’s taut and understated debut Today is an investigation of bereavement, family and Englishness.

Event details:  

Wednesday 17^th August

8.30pm-9.30pm

RBS Corner Theatre

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Praise for Today:

‘Curious and compelling’ The Times

‘Compelling’ The Guardian

Joanne Limburg @ Edinburgh International Book Festival

A POSITIVE SPIN ON DEBILITATING AFFLICTION

Poet Joanne Limburg worries about global disasters, mainly because she thinks they may somehow be her fault. She also hates crossing the road, has a mortal dread of losing her shoes and began to dread sitting at her desk to write for fear that her chair would catch fire. In The Woman Who Thought Too Much, this OCD-inflicted writer faces up to her demons and transcribes a painful but ultimately hopeful tract about her troubled and anxious soul.
The Woman Who Thought Too Much has recently been shortlisted for the Mind Book of the Year Award (winner still tba).

Event details:
Wednesday 17^th August

5.00pm-6.00pm
ScottishPower Studio Theatre

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Praise for The Woman Who Thought Too Much:

‘A candid and often funny memoir’ Stylist Magazine

‘Her candid narrative evokes both pity and admiration’ Metro

Francisco Goldman @ Edinburgh International Book Festival

A NOVELIST’S RESPONSE TO A TRAGEDY

In 2005 the acclaimed novelist Francisco Goldman married a young Mexican writer, Aura Estrada. Less than two years later, she was dead, her neck broken while body surfing. Goldman blamed himself for Aura's death, but instead of taking his own life he confronted his grief by writing a novel, Say Her Name. A story of boundless love and unspeakable loss, it is also profoundly restorative: by recounting Aura's life, he has recreated a love affair that will never die.

Event details:  

Monday 15th August 3.30pm-4.30pm

ScottishPower Studio Theatre

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‘[Say Her Name is] a beautiful and often unbearably sad memoir of grief and memory’ The Observer

28 July, 10am David Miller, author of TODAY @ Solihull Library

Solihull Libary's Reading Circle has invited David Miller, author of acclaimed TODAY. He will be at the Library on Thursday 28 July, 10am to 12pm.
Tickets are free, but to reserve a place phone the library on 0121 704 8534 or email 247library@solihull.gov.uk.

Praise for TODAY:
'An impressive debut' Financial Times

‘Curious and compelling.’ The Times

'A wonderful piece of fiction. Moving and revelatory.’ A N Wilson

17 July @ 10am, Ray Tallis at Ways with Words Festival, Dartington Hall, Devon

Ray Tallis is the author of three books, published by Atlantic Books: MICHELANGELO'S FINGER, THE KINGDOM OF INFINITE SPACE and HIPPOCRATIC OATHS.

Raymond Tallis, clinical neuroscientist and philosopher, mounts an all-out assault on claims made by some contemporary thinkers who believe that biological factors alone can explain human consciousness and behaviour. Arguing that human beings are infinitely more interesting and complex, Tallis offers a combative, rigorous, witty and thoughtprovoking critique.

Tickets are £9 and can be purchased online here.

15 July, 4pm Event with Margaret Drabble @ Ways with Words, Dartington Hall, Devon

SOCIAL CHANGES, SHORT STORIES

Margaret Drabble’s penetrating evocations of character and place, her wide-ranging curiosity and her sense of irony are all on display in her recent collection of short stories that explore the social changes of the past 40 years. She offers her perceptive observations on what is vital to human beings.

Margaret Drabble's memoir, THE PATTERN IN THE CARPET, was published in paperback last year.

Margaret's event at the Ways with Words Festival will take place at 4pm in the Great Hall at Dartington. Tickets for the Festival can be bought here.