Edinburgh Book Festival 2012 highlights.
INSIDE THE MINDS OF CONAN DOYLE AND MARLOWE
Sometimes, taking a risk on the less well known authors pays off. In what promises to be one of the Edinburgh Book Festival 2012 highlights, Ros Barber (The Marlowe Papers) and John O’ Connell (The Baskerville Legacy) talk about recreating the inner lives of famous authors.
Ros Barber’s novel in verse gives voice to Christopher Marlowe, allowing him to tell his version of the events that led to his ‘death’. John O’Connell’s The Baskerville Legacy tells of the encounter between Arthur Conan Doyle and Bertram Fletcher Robinson, which led to a writing collaboration that would become The Hound of the Baskervilles. Join the authors to learn how it felt to occupy another author’s mind.
Chaired by Kirsty Lang, presenter of Front Row on BBC Radio 4
Venue: Writers’ Retreat
Price: £7.00/ £5.00
Details and Booking: http://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/ros-barber-john-o-connell
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“This is the most complete Marlowe I’ve ever encountered.” – Will Self
“Ros Barber’s work is exquisitely honed in meter and metaphor — she makes the iambic pentameter sound as if she just invented it. Her voice is an instrument of creativity, intellect and emotion. Her performance at Pure Poetry was one of the most memorable I have seen in fifteen years.” – Patience Agbabi
“Wonderful poetry, incorporating fantastic imagery, and an accomplished direct stage manner.” – John Agard
“Ros Barber doesn’t read so much as put her whole personal, emotional creativity into sharing her words. From the outset the audience were transfixed. For me, it was a whole new experience in the immediacy of a creative mind connecting with people.” – Andrew Fitch, “Booktalk”
