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Gavin Francis: Intensive Care
In Intensive Care, Gavin Francis describes his experience of working as a GP during the Covid-19 pandemic, in Edinburgh and in Orkney. It’s an astonishing story, told with insight and compassion.
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Gavin Francis
Gavin Francis qualified in medicine from Edinburgh in 1999, then spent ten years travelling, visiting all seven continents. He is the author of six books of non-fiction. True North, Travels in Arctic Europe (2008); Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins (2012) which was SMIT Scottish Book of the Year 2013 and shortlisted for the Costa, Ondaatje, Banff, & Saltire Prizes; Adventures in Human Being (2015), which won Saltire Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2015, was the Observer’s Science Book of the Year, and was a winner in the BMA Book Awards; and Shapeshifters:
Sat 20.30 Mareel £10/£8
On Medicine & Human Change (2018), which was a book of the year in the Sunday Times and The Scotsman. Island Dreams - Mapping an Obsession (2020) was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year; Intensive Care: a GP, a Community, & Covid-19 was published in January 2021. His books have been translated into 18 languages.
He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. He lives in Edinburgh, where he also works as a GP.
SATURDAY 18 SEPTEMBER
SUNDAY 19 SEPTEMBER
Creating Graphic Novels
Workshop ages 12-14
Join award-winning duo Metaphrog (Sandra Marrs and John Chalmers) in an exciting comic workshop! Learn how John and Sandra created their fairy tale graphic novels, learn how to create characters, how graphic novels work, and ask them questions about making comics! There will be drawing and lots of fun!
Metaphrog are Franco-Scottish duo Sandra Marrs and John Chalmers. They make graphic novels inspired by fairy tales and are winners of the Sunday Herald Scottish Culture Awards Best Visual Artist 2016 and the Excelsior Award Junior 2018. They have received multiple Eisner Award nominations, critical acclaim and have appeared at many international festivals. Their latest graphic novels are The Red Shoes and Other Tales, The Little Mermaid, and Bluebeard, all published by Papercutz with support from Creative Scotland. They live in Glasgow.
Sun 10.30 Mareel £9
Mary Paulson-Ellis: Fiction
Workshop
Objects have immense power to help us tell stories. Be it a family photograph or a piece of jewellery lost long ago but never forgotten, they provide an antidote to the blank page. In this fun and interactive writing workshop, led by Mary Paulson-Ellis, participants will use objects to explore questions of plot, character, setting, time and form.
Mary Paulson-Ellis
Mary Paulson-Ellis lives in Edinburgh. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, The Other Mrs Walker was a Times bestseller and Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year. Her second, The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing was long-listed for the McIlvanney Prize for best Scottish crime novel and a Historical Writers Association Gold Crown. Mary has an MLitt in Creative Writing from Glasgow University and her work has featured in the Guardian and on BBC Radio 4. In 2019 Val McDermid named her one of the most compelling LGBTQ+ writers working today. Emily Noble’s Disgrace is her third novel.
