Sunday 28th August, 12.30-1.30pm
EIBF, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh
Tickets: £10/£8
Rodge Glass and Pat Mills discuss Dougie’s War
Rodge Glass, award winning author of No Fireworks, Hope for New Borns, Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography and the forthcoming Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs, and Pat Mills, widely acknowledged as ‘the godfather of British comics’ through his work on Charley’s War, 2000AD and Judge Dredd and many subsequent comics and graphic novels, discuss Dougie’s War, Rodge’s graphic novel (with Dave Turbitt) about one soldier’s return from Afghanistan and the long terms psychological effects of combat.
Meticulously researched and based on the testimonies of real veterans, Dougie’s War, nominated for the SCIBA Graphic Novel of the Year, tells the bleak and gripping story of Dougie Campbell, a fictional soldier who suffers from post-traumatic stress syndrome, something first dealt with in comic form by Pat Mills’s pioneering Charley’s War in the late 1970s.
Sunday 28th August, 6.45–7.45pm
Edinburgh International Book Festival, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh
Tickets: £10/£8
David Belbin and Christopher Wallace
Christopher Wallace, award-wnning author of The Pied Piper’s Poison, The Resurrection Club and The Pirate reads from and discusses Killing the Messenger, his new satirical political conspiracy thriller set in the last days of New Labour, alongside David Belbin, author of a number of highly successful books for young adults, who has been number one in the Kindle charts with his new adult crime series, Bone and Cane, which begins on the night of New Labour’s election victory in 1997.
Killing the Messenger examines New Labour’s love affair with spin and social engineering and is the launch title of Freight Books, a new fiction imprint from the publishers of Gutter magazine.
