Announcing a MobileRead Meet-Up in Edinburgh (Scotland), to co-incide with the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Details as follows:
Date:
Saturday 22nd August
Time:
2.30 pm
Place:
At the Book Festival venue in Charlotte Square. We'll meet in the cafe in the Highland Spiegeltent, which is on your left as you come in through the main entrance.
How to recognise us:
Look for the A4 Mobile Read logo. Failing that, just look for a bunch of intelligent-looking people poring over various hand-held devices.
Other details:
At present, the plan is to meet over coffee or a beer, and then perhaps to visit the festival together, with the possibility of continuing into dinner in the evening.
About the festival
Entry to the festival is free and open to all. There are book displays, exhibits, and some free entertainment and events. There is also an extensive programme of talks, workshops and discussions. These are not free, and the more popular ones get booked up well in advance, though others can be booked at the last minute.
On the day of our meet-up, the programme will include contributions from Henning Mankell (creator of the
Wallender books), Pico Iyer (the biographer of the Dali Lama), Anne Fine (noted children's author), Alexander McCall Smith (one of our most popular local authors), and many more. More information about these events from
www.edbookfest.co.uk.
RSVP
If you can definitely make the meet-up (and I hope you can), RSVP
here so that we will know to look out for you. But if you don't manage to let us know in advance, or if you come on the spur of the moment, that's OK too.