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Browse here for titles from Wigtown Festival's year round bookshop in Scotland's National Book Town.

Welcome to Number twenty-six bookshop!

Every purchase made through our online shop and in person at Number twenty-six
supports Wigtown Book Festival and the charitable activities of Wigtown
Festival Company. We stock new books, merch, local produce, art & music and more!

Our shop is open from 10am to 4pm, Monday - Saturday and is run by our wonderful dedicated volunteers. Come by and say hello!

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

New arrivals

  • The Fullness of Time

    Cathy Haynes

    The Fullness of Time
    £22.00
    A journey into the forgotten art of marking tim...
    A journey into the forgotten art of marking time through signs in the world around us – from the slow sliding of sunbeams to the wheeling of the stars. Past generations would tell time by shadows s...
  • Art Cure : The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health

    Daisy Fancourt

    Art Cure : The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health
    £22.00
    Discover how art can improve our health, make u...
    Discover how art can improve our health, make us happier and even help us live longer with the inspiring new book from the award-winning scientist and world-leading expert. DIET. SLEEP. EXERCISE. N...
  • Grasslands : The Intricate Life of Britain's Hidden Habitats

    John Wright

    Grasslands : The Intricate Life of Britain's Hidden Habitats
    £22.00
    A sparkling green field. A dull and scrubby pat...
    A sparkling green field. A dull and scrubby patch of grass. One is the sanitised evidence of monoculture, the other a world teeming with more life than you could ever imagine. Join John Wright, one...
  • The Midnight Train

    Matt Haig

    The Midnight Train
    £20.00
    When your life flashes before your eyes, what w...
    When your life flashes before your eyes, what will matter most? For Wilbur it was his time with Maggie, the love of his life. Their honeymoon in Venice. Before he threw it all away. Years later, on...
  • The Shapeshifter's Daughter

    Sally Magnusson

    The Shapeshifter's Daughter
    £10.99
    Nothing, on earth or below it, freezes faster t...
    Nothing, on earth or below it, freezes faster than the worthless heart. Before she was a hideous monster, the queen of the underworld was simply Hel. But cast as a girl out of lofty Asgard, realm o...
  • Wild History : Journeys into Lost Scotland

    James Crawford

    Wild History : Journeys into Lost Scotland
    £12.99
    You scramble up over the dunes of an isolated b...
    You 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 forest. And then you find them. The traces of the past. ...
  • Folklore of Trees

    Aidan Meighan

    Folklore of Trees
    £12.99
    Uncover the myths, legends and secrets of the w...
    Uncover the myths, legends and secrets of the world’s most iconic trees. Did you know that laurel is said to protect against snakebites and shield against witchcraft? Or that yews are often planted...
  • The Devil’s Garden : The World's Most Sinister Plants and Fungi

    Peter Marren

    The Devil’s Garden : The World's Most Sinister Plants and Fungi
    £20.00
    A lively exploration of the poisoners, trickste...
    A lively exploration of the poisoners, tricksters, stingers, stinkers and invaders of the plant world and how their lives intertwine with ours. Some plants and fungi – those we cultivate in farms, ...

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...
  • 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 ...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The Diary of a Bookseller

    Shaun Bythell

    The Diary of a Bookseller
    £11.99
    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...
  • 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...
  • Galloway The Lost Province of Gaelic Scotland

    Michael Ansell, Ronald Black & Ted Cowan

    Galloway The Lost Province of Gaelic Scotland
    £19.99
    Galloway and Carrick form the south-western co...
    Galloway and Carrick form the south-western corner of Scotland. Though cut of by the Lowlands and the sea from the rest of the Gaelic-speaking world, the area has a proud Gaelic past. In this moul...
  • 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....
  • 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.
  • Remainders of the Day

    Shaun Bythell

    Remainders of the Day
    £10.99
    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 ...

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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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