Discussion Groups @ Borders
Odeon Film Discussion Group Tuesday 13th July at 6.30pm.
Ifyou love movies you ('an 'I afford not to be here.
Science Fiction/Horror/Fantasy Writers’ Workshop Tuesday 13th and Tuesday 27th July at 8pm.
()urfortnightly workshop, where you ran diseuss you work. Scottish Fiction Discussion Group
Saturday 17th July at ll.3()am.
Robin Jenkin 's Fergus Lamont
Science F iction/F antasy Discussion Group
Wednesday 28th July at 7.30pm.
Fritz Leiher's genre making lll met in Lankhmar
Scottish Fiction Discussion Group
Saturday 17th July at l 1.30am.
Robin Jenkin 's Fergus Lamont
New Group
The Patrick Moore Astronomy Group
Meets the first Thursday of every month.
This ereiting new group gives you the opportunity to dist-over the wonders of the sky at night. Front talks to observatory visits to informal dist‘ussimts.
Plus
Weekly creative writing groups and fortnightly writing master classes.
And a fortnightly poetry writing group.
10% off all featured discussion group titles until the date of the group meeting.
BORDERS
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From humble origins in a quiet mountain village to owning a huge business empire, Stakis has become a household name. Now for the first time, Jack Webster tells the full story of this
remarkable rags to riches tale.
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Saturday 10th July at 12.30pm
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EVENTS
THURSDAY 8 1
Glasgow
Harry Potter Day Waterstone's. 153—157 Sauchiehall Street. 332 9105. 2pm. Free. The official launch of J.K. Rowling's new book Harry Potter And The Prisoner ()frlzkahan (Bloomsbury
‘ £10.99). See preview and kids listings.
Robert Crawford, Michael Symmons Roberts and Robin Robertson Borders Books. 283 Buchanan Street. 222 7700. 8pm. Free. Contemporary poetry with
Robert Crawford reading from his new
collection Spirit Mae/tines. Michael Symmons Roberts discusses his first collection of poems Soft Keys and Robin Robertson. editor of authors such as Irvine Welsh. Alan Warner and AL Kennedy talks about his work.
Edinburgh
Harry Potter Day James Thin. 53—59 South Bridge. 622 8222. 3.45pm. Free. Thins celebrate the launch of J.K. Rowling‘s new book. See preview and kids listings.
East Kilbride
David R. Ross ()ttakar's Bookstore. Unit 1. Princes Square. 01355 217835. 7—9pm. Free. The popular historian and author of ()n The Trail Of Robert The Bruce ( Luath Press £7.99) talks about Scotland's great hero-king.
SATURDAY 10
Glasgow
Jack Webster Borders Books. 283 Buchanan Street. 222 7700. 12.30pm. Free. Webster's new book tells the inside story of Reo Stakis. who from a relatively humble up-bringing. set up Stakis Hotels and casinos.
Edinburgh
Gordon Legge Waterstone‘s. 128 Princes Street. 226 2666. 7pm. Free. One of Scotland‘s bright young things on the literary scene. Legge‘s latest collection of short stories New Neighbours (Vintage £6.99) spans music. drugs. football. fetishism. cross-dressing and family drama. He will be reading some of his snapshots of family life.
TUESDAY 13
Glasgow
Tony Parsons Waterstone‘s. 153—157 Sauchiehall Street. 332 9105. 7pm. £2 (£1) with ticket price redeemable against book. [ix-husband ofJulie Burchhill and highest paid journalist at The Mirror of his generation. Parsons‘ novel Man And Boy (HarperCollins £12.99) is a loosely biographical account of bringing up a child alone after marital breakdown.
WEDNESDAY 14
CD a? m on a TI
I Cindy Blake Dillons. 174 Argyle Street.
248 4814. 7pm. Free. Blake reads from and signs copies of her new novel It is My Party (Simon & Schuster £9.99). Timothy Mo Waterstone‘s. 153—157 Sauchiehall Street. 332 9105. 7pm. £2 (£1) with ticket price redeemable against book. Booker prizewinner Timothy Mo reads from his latest book Renegade 0r Hit/02 (Turnaround £17.99).
1' THURSDAY 15
Edinburgh
Robert Rankin Waterstone‘s. 13—14 Princes Street. 556 3034. 7pm. Free. Rankin‘s reads from his latest work Snufl Fiction (Doubleday £16.99) which is set at the end of the millennium when chaos ensues.
Family tree: Gordon Legge reads at Princes Street Waterstone's, Edinburgh Mon 12 Jul
SUNDAY 18 3
Glasgow Robert Knox Borders Books. 283
Buchanan Street. 222 7700. 8pm. Free.
Performance poet. Robert Knox hosts this regular poetry evening giving writers and performers the opportunity to share their work.
5 MONDAY 19
Edinburgh
Antonia Swinson And Robert Llewellyn James Thin. George Street. 225 4495. 6.30pm. Free. Red Dwarfstar Robert Llewellyn reads from I’unehhag (Hodder & Stoughton £9.99) and Edinburgh author Swinson reads from The Cousin 's 'Iitle (Hodder & Stoughton £6.99).
TUESDAY 20 ,
Glasgow David R. Grant Dillons. 174 Arger
1 Street. 248 4814. 7pm. Free. Reading.
signing and discussing The Seven Year Hiteh (Simon & Schuster £16.99). the true story of a Scottish family‘s incredible journey around the world in a horse drawn caravan. With free wine. Alan Spence Watcrstone's. 153—157
I Sauchiehall Street. 332 9105. 7pm. Free.
Way To Go (Orion £6.99) is being launched in paperback with a reading by the author.
Edinburgh
Dilys Rose Waterstone‘s. 128 Princes
: Street. 226 2666. 7pm. Free. Waterstone's
features yet another of the cream of
Scottish literary talent. This time. the author reads from her highly acclaimed new novel Pest Maiden (Review £9.99).
a coruscating story of blood. microbes and plague.
Glasgow Scottish Poets' Night Waterstone‘s.
153—157 Sauchiehall Street. 332 9105.
7pm. Free. Join Brian McCabe. Kevin
MacNeil and Janet Paisley for a night of poetry which promises to be an exhilarating evening of readings from their recent collections.
Thompson Davis Dillons. 174 Argyle Street. 248 4814. 7pm. £1 with ticket price redeemable against book. The launch of her eagerly awaited new novel in paperback The Glasgow Belle ( B&W Publishing £5.99).
Reading Group Waterstone‘s. 153—157 Sauchiehall Street. For more information contact Tessa Bowler on 332 9105. 7.30pm. Free. The group discuss Hanover
, Square by Patrick Hamilton.