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Browse here for titles from our bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland's National Book Town.

Welcome to Number 26 Bookshop

Every purchase made through our online shop and in person at Number 26
supports Wigtown Book Festival and the charitable activities of Wigtown
Festival Company.

Our shop at Number 26 is open from 10am to 4pm, Monday - Saturday.

Thank you for your support

Please email bookshop@wigtownbookfestival.com if you would like a specific book ordered.

New arrivals

  • Sanderling

    Anne Weber

    Sanderling
    £14.99
    How do you live with a history you can’t escape...
    How do you live with a history you can’t escape? What did it mean to be German one hundred years ago? And what is it like today? These are the questions at the heart of Sanderling, a classic work o...
  • Freezing Point

    Anders Bodelsen

    Freezing Point
    £9.99
    A lost dystopian classic, set in a future witho...
    A lost dystopian classic, set in a future without death, introduced by Sophie Mackintosh, for fans of Jeff Vander You don't own yourself any longer. Society owns you. Bruno, a young magazine editor...
  • Invisible Lines : Boundaries and Belts That Define the World

    Maxim Samson

    Invisible Lines : Boundaries and Belts That Define the World
    £11.99
    Our world has innumerable boundaries, ranging f...
    Our world has innumerable boundaries, ranging from the obvious - like oceans and mountain ranges - to the intangible - like subtle differences in language or climate. Most of us cross invisible lin...
  • The House of Wolf

    Tony Robinson

    The House of Wolf
    £25.00
    Rome. Father Asser is waiting to die. His ideal...
    Rome. Father Asser is waiting to die. His idealism has landed him in a papal prison on trumped-up charges of heresy, until salvation arrives in an unexpected form. Cardinal Balotelli also dreams of...
  • Katabasis

    R.F. Kuang

    Katabasis
    £22.00
    Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a ...
    Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld. Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick. But...
  • A Little History of the Earth

    Jamie Woodward

    A Little History of the Earth
    £16.99
    A lively account of the history of our planet, ...
    A lively account of the history of our planet, from its earliest origins to the present day, told through the major geological changes and scientific breakthroughs. Where has our planet come from, ...
  • The Silver Book

    Olivia Laing

    The Silver Book
    £20.00
    It is September 1974. Two men meet by chance in...
    It is September 1974. Two men meet by chance in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema, the designer respo...
  • The Dream of a Tree

    Maja Lunde

    The Dream of a Tree
    £9.99
    From the bestselling author of The History of B...
    From the bestselling author of The History of Bees Longyearbyen, 2110: Far to the North, buried deep in the mountains, is a massive vault filled with seeds from every corner of the Earth. Tommy gro...

Children's books

Titles from Big Wig and Big Dog, our annual children's book festivals

  • Wigtown Festival Bookshop Gift Card

    Wigtown Festival Bookshop

    Wigtown Festival Bookshop Gift Card
    £10.00
    Would you like to buy a book as a gift, but don...
    Would you like to buy a book as a gift, but don't know which one to choose?  Why not give a Wigtown Festival Bookshop Gift Card instead and the recipient can make their own choice?   Gift Cards ar...
  • One Button Benny by Alan Windram. Book cover has an illustration of a robot flying through space with two planets in the background.

    Alan Windram

    One Button Benny
    £7.99
    Benny was different… Benny was special… Benny w...
    Benny was different… Benny was special… Benny was a robot… Benny had a bright red button in the middle of his tummy. On the button, written in big, bold letters were the words 'Only Press in an Eme...
  • Uncle Pete and the Undersea Adventure

    David C Flanagan

    Uncle Pete and the Undersea Adventure
    £6.99
    Uncle Pete's plane is missing, AGAIN! It's been...
    Uncle Pete's plane is missing, AGAIN! It's been shot down by evil wildlife hunters and has sunk deep into the cold Arctic sea. That means Uncle Pete and TM will have to go and find it, fix it and b...
  • One Button Benny and the Dinosaur Dilemma : 3 by Alan Windram. Book cover has five robots in a cave with a Tyrannosaurus Rex in the background.

    Alan Windram

    One Button Benny and the Dinosaur Dilemma : 3
    £7.99
    It's Friday and that means it's party time in r...
    It's Friday and that means it's party time in robot town. Benny and his friends decide they need a bit more 'robot dancing'practice before the big night. They bounce and boogie, jump andtwirl then ...
  • One Button Benny and the Gigantic Catastrophe : 2 by Alan Windram. Book cover has a robot, a robot cat running from a spectre in the background.

    Alan Windram, Chloe Holwill-Hunter

    One Button Benny and the Gigantic Catastrophe: 2
    £7.99
    The follow up to the award-winning One Button B...
    The follow up to the award-winning One Button Benny picture book and the second book in the series. Benny's new adventure sees all the robots having to work together when more aliens arrive on thei...
  • Kevin The Orange

    Alan Windram

    Kevin The Orange
    £7.99
    This laugh out loud picture book follows Kevin ...
    This laugh out loud picture book follows Kevin the Orange, who is really tired of being orange. So with the help of his friend, Brian the Pear, Kevin tries being lots of different colours with hila...
  • Tales from the Ocean

    Chae Strathie

    Tales from the Ocean
    £9.99
    Discover the sea creatures that call the ocean ...
    Discover the sea creatures that call the ocean home in this beautiful collection of twenty original tales. A special gift for nature lovers of all ages! The ocean is full of life, from the icy dept...
  • Star!

    Michaela Morgan

    Star!
    £8.99
    Nadia Nadim was born in to a prosperous and wel...
    Nadia Nadim was born in to a prosperous and well connected family in Afghanistan. She is one of five sisters who, with their Mother, had to leave their war torn country in fear of severe repression...

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  • Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell. Book cover has an illustration of people reading books, a black cat and a baby.

    Shaun Bythell

    Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
    £7.99
    In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop...
    In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop, Wigtown, Shaun Bythell has met pretty much every kind of customer there is - from the charming, erudite and deep-pocketed to the eccentric, flatulen...
  • Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets

    Jessica Fox

    Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets
    £8.99
    A bookshop love story Jessica Fox is living in ...
    A bookshop love story Jessica Fox is living in Hollywood, a 26-year-old filmmaker with a high-stress job at NASA. Working late one night, craving another life, she is seized by a moment of inspirat...
  • Devorgilla Days

    Kathleen Hart

    Devorgilla Days
    £10.99
    This is a story about uncovering the things tha...
    This is a story about uncovering the things that really matter, and discovering what makes us feel alive. It is a story about finding that inner strength and resilience, and never giving up hope. E...
  • Book cover of Exploring the Galloway Hills, Book 1: The Cairnsmore of Fleet range. Panoramic photograph from the top of a snow covered Cairnsmore.

    Stephen Norris

    Exploring the Galloway Hills: Book 1 - The Cairnsmore of Fleet Range
    £8.99
    Stephen Norris's anthology of hillwalking stori...
    Stephen Norris's anthology of hillwalking stories is based on eight expeditions into the area behind Creetown and Gatehouse.
  • The Diary of a Bookseller

    Shaun Bythell

    The Diary of a Bookseller
    £10.99
    Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scot...
    Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set...
  • Confessions of a Bookseller

    Shaun Bythell

    Confessions of a Bookseller
    £10.99
    Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in W...
    Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in the shop and the sea lapping nearby, the shop should be an idyll for bookworms....
  • Who were the Martyrs of Wigtown?: The Story of the Two Margarets by Lindsay Banks. Book cover has an illustration of the Martyr's Monument on the merse below Wigtown.

    Lindsey Banks

    Who Were the Martyrs of Wigtown?
    £4.99
    In Wigtown, South West Scotland, there is a sta...
    In Wigtown, South West Scotland, there is a stake out at sea to commemorate the drownings of two women in 1685. Who were these women and why were they drowned? Lindsay Banks weaves the stories of t...
  • Book cover of Exploring the Galloway Hills: Book 2 The Minnigaff Range by Stephen Norris. Panoramic countryside photo of a dog in the Galloway Hills.

    Stephen Norris

    Exploring the Galloway Hills: Book 2 The Minigaff Range
    £10.00
    In Exploring the Galloway Hills: Book 2 The Min...
    In Exploring the Galloway Hills: Book 2 The Minigaff Range, the author takes readers into a huge tract of hills and mountains in the western Stewartry. It is a wild domain of plunging crags and swe...

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About us

Regeneration through books

In 1999 the new Scottish Parliament acknowledged Wigtown as Scotland’s National Book Town, and in the same year the first Wigtown Book Festival took place. 

Since then, Wigtown has hosted an annual autumn literary festival, with a growing calendar of events through the year.

Our own bookshop has now joined the collection of booksellers in the town.

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