Historical Fiction Festival
Historical Fiction Festival
Fri 12 Apr 2013
- Mon 15 Apr 2013
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Summerhall, Edinburgh’s award winning Arts Centre is proud to announce the launch of Britain’s largest Historical Fiction Festival with a line up of award winning and acclaimed authors. It is only right that it should be held in Edinburgh, for the city is the cradle of historical fiction, from Sir Walter Scott, Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Louis Stevenson, to a growing number of modern day historical novelists.
For full details visit: www.historicfictionfest.com
Friday 12 April, 2013
- 11.00am: Walter Scott, launch of the complete Edinburgh Edition – Festival Opening Event
- 12.30pm: Walter Scott and Napoleon
- 3.00pm: Murder in a time of austerity
- 2.00pm: Workshop: Tips and pitfalls in writing military fiction
- 5.00pm: Lampedusa
- 7.00pm: Film: The Leopard (1963)
- All Day: Hugh Buchanan Exhibition
Saturday 13 April, 2013
- 11.00am: Conan Doyle, our forgotten Historical Novelist – From Sir Nigel and the White Company to Brigadier Gerard
- 12.30pm: Making fiction from recent historic events
- 2.30pm: Moral issues in historical fiction
- 4.00pm: Half a League Onward – Film: The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
- 6.30pm: Half a League Onward – The Crimean War and Victoria’s wars in fiction
- All Day: Hugh Buchanan Exhibition
Sunday 14 April, 2013
- 12 Noon: Dickens updated
- 1.30pm: World War II revisited – Fact and fiction in WWII
- 2.00pm: Seminar: historical research
- 4.00pm: World War II revisited – Film: Dunkirk (1958)
- 5.30pm: The Summerhall Historical Fiction Forum
- All Day: Hugh Buchanan Exhibition
Monday 15 April, 2013
- 12 Noon: Workshop: Allan Massie
- 11.00am: Witches, Pirates, Highwaywomen… and Shakespeare
- All Day: Hugh Buchanan Exhibition