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

  • Weyward

    Emilia Hart

    Weyward
    £9.99
    Three women, five centuries, one spellbinding s...
    Three women, five centuries, one spellbinding story In the present day, Kate flees a traumatic relationship to the Cumbrian cottage she inherited from her great-aunt; but the cottage hides secrets ...
  • The Housemaid's Secret: Book 2

    Freida McFadden

    The Housemaid's Secret: Book 2
    £9.99
    As he continues showing me their incredible pen...
    As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about the woman behind closed doors. But I can't risk losing this job - not if I want to keep my darkest s...
  • Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbours

    Erika Howsare

    Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbours
    £20.00
    A stag leaps on an ancient brooch. A doe and a ...
    A stag leaps on an ancient brooch. A doe and a fawn step across a field at first light. A pair of antlers is silhouetted by the side of a busy road. From the earliest cave paintings to the present ...
  • The Dog of the North

    Elizabeth McKenzie

    The Dog of the North
    £9.99
    Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over, ...
    Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over, she’s quit her job, her parents have been missing in the Australian outback for five years and now she’s back home in Santa Barbara, dealing with moun...
  • The Simple Art of Killing a Woman

    Patricia Melo

    The Simple Art of Killing a Woman
    £12.99
    From bestselling Brazilian novelist Patri´cia M...
    From bestselling Brazilian novelist Patri´cia Melo comes a masterful thriller that is by turns poetic, inspiring, humorous and harrowing. To escape an overprotective family and an abusive part- ner...
  • In the Lives of Puppets

    Wigtown Festival Bookshop

    In the Lives of Puppets
    £9.99
    From New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune...
    From New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune, In the Lives of Puppets is a queer retelling of the Pinocchio tale, inviting you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary j...
  • Wild History : Journeys into Lost Scotland

    James Crawford

    Wild History : Journeys into Lost Scotland
    £22.00
    From the presenter of BBC One's Scotland from t...
    From the presenter of BBC One's Scotland from the SkyYou scramble up over the dunes of an isolated beach. You climb to the summit of a lonely hill. You pick your way through the eerie hush of a for...
  • Table For Two

    Amor Towles

    Table For Two
    £18.99
    Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he share...
    Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take ...

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...
  • Nora and the Map of Mayhem

    Joseph Elliott

    Nora and the Map of Mayhem
    £7.99
    An outrageously funny new children's book from ...
    An outrageously funny new children's book from award-winning author Joseph Elliott, star of CBeebies' Swashbuckle and CBBC's Big Fat Like. When Atticus and Autumn's dads leave them with their eccen...
  • Kevin The Orange

    Alan Windram

    Kevin The Orange
    £7.99
  • My Big Fat Smelly Poo Diary

    Jim Smith

    My Big Fat Smelly Poo Diary
    £8.99
    From the bestselling creator of Barry Loser com...
    From the bestselling creator of Barry Loser comes Jim Smith's brand new full-colour graphic novel series for readers of 7+. My Big Fat Smelly Poo Diary is packed full of friendship, fun and toilet ...
  • Greenwild: The City Beyond the Sea

    Pari Thomson

    Greenwild: The City Beyond the Sea
    £12.99
    Across the ocean, a magical adventure awaits in...
    Across the ocean, a magical adventure awaits in The City Beyond the Sea, the spellbinding, beautifully-illustrated sequel to Overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize winner and Blackwell's Childre...
  • Greenwild: The World Behind The Door

    Pari Thomson

    Greenwild: The World Behind The Door
    £7.99
    Winner of the Overall Waterstones Children's Bo...
    Winner of the Overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize. Blackwells Children's Book of the Year. An instant New York Times bestseller. Pari Thomson's magical adventure series begins with Greenwild:...
  • Bothered by Bugs

    Emily Gravett

    Bothered by Bugs
    £12.99
    A very funny picture book story in which Pete t...
    A very funny picture book story in which Pete the Badger, star of Emily Gravett's award-winning books Tidy and Too Much Stuff!, learns valuable lessons about the importance of all creatures, big an...
  • Telling the Time with Anna: First Skills

    Vivian French

    Telling the Time with Anna: First Skills
    £12.99
    From seconds to minutes to hours, learn all abo...
    From seconds to minutes to hours, learn all about how to tell the time with Anna and her grandpa. A charming new book, all about telling the time! Anna’s friend Zane is coming to tea soon – but whe...

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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...
  • 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...
  • Remainders of the Day : More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown

    Shaun Bythell

    Remainders of the Day : More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown
    £16.99
    The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll -...
    The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty years, owner Shaun ...
  • 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...

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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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