Wigtown Festival Company bookshop, the shop front in Wigtown. Wigtown Festival Company bookshop, the shop front in Wigtown.

Welcome

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

Welcome to Number 11 Bookshop

Every purchase made through our online shop and in person at Number 11
supports Wigtown Book Festival and the charitable activities of Wigtown
Festival Company.

Our shop at Number 11 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

  • Naturally Vegan

    Julius Fiedler

    Naturally Vegan
    £25.00
    Reinvigorate your cooking with more than 90 ext...
    Reinvigorate your cooking with more than 90 extraordinary international recipes, and bring wholesome, unprocessed ingredients to life from the comfort of your kitchen. Julius Fiedler has made it hi...
  • It Should Have Been You

    Andrea Mara

    It Should Have Been You
    £16.99
    Have you ever sent a message to the wrong perso...
    Have you ever sent a message to the wrong person? Susan sends her sister a gossipy message about their neighbour. But she accidentally posts it on the neighbourhood WhatsApp group instead.It’s an i...
  • Thirst Trap

    Grainne O'Hare

    Thirst Trap
    £16.99
    Sometimes friends hold you together. Sometimes ...
    Sometimes friends hold you together. Sometimes they’re why you’re falling apart. Maggie, Harley and Róise are friends on the brink: of triumph, catastrophe, or maybe just finally growing up.Their c...
  • What Happens in the Dark

    Kia Abdullah

    What Happens in the Dark
    £16.99
     Lily and Safa were best friends growing up. No...
     Lily and Safa were best friends growing up. Now, Lily is the nation’s favourite breakfast TV presenter and Safa, once a renowned journalist, is reeling from a recent fall from grace. When news bre...
  • Some of Us Are Liars

    Fiona Cummins

    Some of Us Are Liars
    £18.99
    There’s your side. My side. And the truth.Lisa ...
    There’s your side. My side. And the truth.Lisa Jewell meets Jodi Picoult in a story of betrayal and deception in the aftermath of family tragedy. She must face justice. As her sister it kills me to...
  • My Family and Other Spies

    Alistair Wood

    My Family and Other Spies
    £22.00
    As a boy, Alistair Wood lived within the (very ...
    As a boy, Alistair Wood lived within the (very high) walls of a Secret Intelligence Service – or MI6 – training camp, surrounded by some of the most senior - and colourful - characters in SIS histo...
  • Out of this World and into the Next

    Adriana Marais

    Out of this World and into the Next
    £18.99
    Moving to Mars may sound like science fiction b...
    Moving to Mars may sound like science fiction but the truth is that today, scant decades since our first space missions, humanity is on the verge of becoming multiplanetary. SpaceX is building a St...
  • The Buried City : Unearthing the Real Pompeii

    Gabriel Zuchtriegel

    The Buried City : Unearthing the Real Pompeii
    £22.00
    A vast area of Pompeii is being excavated for t...
    A vast area of Pompeii is being excavated for the first time, revealing astonishing insights into how people really lived. In this revelatory new history, Director of Pompeii Gabriel Zuchtriegel sh...

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...
  • 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...
  • Shona The Vet : Farm to Farm : 3

    Catherine Stables

    Shona The Vet : Farm to Farm : 3
    £6.99
    Shona the Vet and her lovely dog Jock fly from ...
    Shona the Vet and her lovely dog Jock fly from farm to farm in this new story from working vet Catherine Stables. Having a change from her usual wildlife work, Shona visits local farms either to he...
  • 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...
  • Luna Loves Gardening

    Joseph Coelho

    Luna Loves Gardening
    £7.99
    By award-winning Children's Laureate Joseph Coe...
    By award-winning Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho, the fifth book in the Luna Loves... series brings alive the art of gardening. Luna is wowed by her local community garden, there are squashes and...
  • Blitzers

    Alastair Chisholm

    Blitzers
    £7.99
    **Pre-order - published: 14 Aug 2025 ** When Da...
    **Pre-order - published: 14 Aug 2025 ** When Danny reveals the dark underside of a company making a new fighting toy gadget, he has no idea of the danger he’s in. A gripping sci-fi mystery from bes...
  • 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...
  • 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...

Local | Dumfries & Galloway

  • 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...
  • Southlight 29

    Wigtown Festival Bookshop

    Southlight 29
    £5.00
    Southlight 29 is a previous print edition of Du...
    Southlight 29 is a previous print edition of Dumfries & Galloway’s very own literary magazine, which publishes the best of new poetry and short stories alongside black and white prints and phot...
  • 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...
  • Southlight 30

    Wigtown Festival Bookshop

    Southlight 30
    £5.00
    Southlight 30 is one of a previous print editio...
    Southlight 30 is one of a previous print edition of Dumfries & Galloway’s very own literary magazine, which publishes the best of new poetry and short stories alongside black and white prints a...
  • Southlight 31

    Wigtown Festival Bookshop

    Southlight 31
    £5.00
    Southlight 31 is the previous print edition of ...
    Southlight 31 is the previous print edition of Dumfries & Galloway’s very own literary magazine, which publishes the best of new poetry and short stories alongside black and white prints and ph...
  • 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...
  • 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....

Looking for a book?

If you are looking for a particular title and can't find it on our website, please get in touch and we'll do our best to get it for you.

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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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