Dublin Writers Festival 2008 — 11th – 15th June

Programme Clár

Wednesday 11 June
18.00 Project John Boyne / Lloyd Jones
20.00 Project JP Donleavy
Thursday 12 June
17.30 Newman House Wayne Johnston and Glenn Patterson
18.00 Project Hugo Hamilton/ Justin Cartwright
20.00 Project Values Debate - Roy Foster, David Mc Williams, Alan Gilsenan and Ivana Bacik
Friday 13 June
18.00 Project IMPAC winner
18.15 Project Eilean Ni Chuilleanain/ Harry Clifton
20.00 Project Sebastian Barry/ Jonathan Coe
18.00 MacNeill Theatre Tom Stoppard
Saturday 14 June
11.00 Morrison Hotel Kathy Lette brunch
14.00 Project Marian Keyes
14.00 FilmBase Damon Galgut/ Vincente Molina Foix/ Helon Habila
16.00 Project Philippe Sands/ Philip Gourevitch –The True Cost of The War on Terror
18.00 Project Esther Freud/ Linn Ullmann
20.00 Project Tobias Wolff/ Anne Enright
Sunday 15 June
13.30 Peacock Theatre One City One Book discussion - Victoria Glendinning, John Mullan + Bruce Arnold
15.30 Irish Writers Centre Frank McGuinness/ Thomas Lynch
15.30 Peacock Theatre Susan McKay, Patrick Maguire, Carlo Gébler and Catherine McCartney –Laying The Troubles to Rest
17.30 Gate Theatre David Grossman
20.00 Gate Theatre Ian Rankin and Colin Bateman

Wednesday 11 June   Project at 6.00pm
Dé Cheadaoin 11 Meitheamh   Admission €8.00/€6.00

John Boyne and Lloyd Jones

Troubled Waters

“Mr Pip is a poignant and impressive work which can take its place alongside the classical novels of adolescence.”

T L S

“Raw literary talent at its best.”

Irish Independent on The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne

Rebellion and rites of passage in the South Seas link two vivid tales of survival from two very different historical perspectives.

John Boyne

First, 1789. When a 14-year-old boy escapes a prison term in exchange for service at sea, serendipity soon makes way for a case of wrong place, wrong time. The ship: HMS Bounty. The captain: William Bligh. The destination: Tahiti. Mutiny on the Bounty is the latest gripping novel from John Boyne, award-winning author of the international bestseller The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

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Two centuries later. A coming-of-age literary classic lies at the heart of Lloyd Jones’ Booker-shortlisted Mr Pip. As civil war ravages the tropical island of Bougainville, the pop-eyed recluse Mr Watts takes over the village school and tutors his young charges with Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations – his only text. But on an island at war, the power of fiction has dangerous consequences.

Navigate the troubled waters of literary fiction with John Boyne and Lloyd Jones.

Advance Bookings

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