Famous Seamus sells out in Edinburgh

Irish author Seamus Heaney is among several authors whose appearances at the Edinburgh Book Festival, http://www.edbookfest.co.uk, have led to a record demand for tickets.

Two events with the Nobel Prize-winning author have sold out and 25% of all tickets have been sold in three days.

Seamus Heaney
MEET THE AUTHOR
Venue:RBS MAIN THEATRE Date: Thu 24/8/2006 Time: 8:00 PM To Fri 25/08/2006
Appearing: Seamus Heaney

We are overjoyed to welcome the great Nobel Prize-winning poet, one of the most distinguished and important writers alive today, back to the Book Festival. In this special talk, entitled Brede and Braird, he explores some Scottish connections, reflects on language and its furtherings, and reads some poems. Supported by the Hawthornden Literary Retreat